Called the most notorious literary critic in America, Professor Bloom argued for the superiority of giants like Shakespeare, Chaucer and Kafka.

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Superior IQs are associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

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Plunging into the ocean near Antarctica, Lewis Pugh was determined to push the limits of human endurance

The Y Combinator startup Lambda School has raised money from GV, Stripe, and even Ashton Kutcher for a better way of thinking about education.

Cupertino in China Syndrome meltdown

A NASA engineer has published plans for an engine that could accelerate a rocket without using propellant. But there are questions over whether it could work

Science looks at the subtleties of semiotics

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“Psychologists are simply, on an absolute scale, dullards… They seem to feel, many of them, that all we need to do is consolidate our scientific gains. Their self-confidence astonishes …

Permitting falsehood in political advertising would work if we had a model democracy, but we don’t. Not only are candidates dishonest, but voters aren’t educated, and the media isn’t objective. And now, hyperlinks turn lies into donations and donations into…

We started in .NET Core 1.0 with a very minimal API set that only included ~18K of the .NET Framework APIs. With .NET Standard 2.0, we tried to make it much more viable to share code between .NET F...

Most Haskell tutorials on the web use a style of teaching akin to language reference manuals. They show you the syntax of the language, a few language constructs, then tell you to create a few simple functions at the interactive prompt. The "hard stuff" of…

Once a fast-growing startup and magnet for investment dollars, BugHerd later found itself at rock bottom, but refused to die.

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Ice patch archeologists are racing against the clock to find ancient artifacts dislodged by climate change