The 18th century misadventures of HMS Wager and her reluctant crew

NEW YORK (Reuters) - WeWork owner The We Company may seek a valuation in its upcoming initial public offering of between $10 billion and $12 billion, a dramatic discount to the $47 billion valuation it achieved in January, people familiar with the matter…

From our print archive: Gamesmanship and America’s first Nobel Prize scientist, Albert Abraham Michelson.

On 21st February 2019 the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16, delivered a strong speech [1] at the European Economic and Social Committee in Brussels. Thunberg teamed up with IPCC [2] science and scientists and encouraged politicians to take urgent…

Is a lucrative college-free job too good to be true?

You wouldn't think that chess players, who sit for hours on end and extend their arms only from time to time, would struggle with weight loss. But they do. Inside the very real, very bizarre metabolic phenomenon gripping chess.

If you have something important to say, it's wrong to say it in a paywalled publication.

A bot written in Scala 3 to stress test text-based MMORPGs (MUDs). - GitHub - ryanberckmans/noric-bot: A bot written in Scala 3 to stress test text-based MMORPGs (MUDs).

Full featured drag & drop enabled Vue file upload component with previews and upload progress

Harvard University reportedly acknowledged that it received about $9 million from disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and his foundations over a 10-year period that ended in 2007. 

Coach Nick Saban gets peeved at students leaving routs early. An app ties sticking around to playoff tickets, but also prompts concern from students and privacy watchdogs.

Jewish commandment which bans causing animals unnecessary suffering

With Gmail confidential mode Google is trying to meet rising privacy concerns. But true confidentiality is impossible without encryption.