a small simulation of small fireflies

$1,000 can raise a class’s test scores by as much as cutting class size by a third.

Look Busy fills your calendar with realistic—but secretly fake—work events, keeping colleagues from booking meetings so you can actually get work done.

Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and SVP of Google Research and Health, on behalf of the entire Google Research community The goal of Google Re...

Anarchic, organic, surreal, this enclave was once among the most densely populated places on Earth.

In this post, I explain how I use Notion, GitLab and other software to maintain my personal knowledge base.

The long read: What links an eccentric Oxford classics don, billionaire US evangelicals, and a tiny, missing fragment of an ancient manunoscript? Charlotte Higgins unravels a multimillion-dollar riddle

AMD launches new value and entry-level mobile processors, codenamed Dali.

"Our policy is to ban ads containing vaccine misinformation."

How do early career researchers (ECRs) use Sci-Hub and why? In this post David Nicholas assesses early career researcher attitudes towards the journal pirating site, finding a strong preference for…

Small donations to The Grayzone were delayed and reversed by PayPal because they mentioned the word “Iran” in messages praising our coverage of the US conflict. At the same time, Facebook censored a factual Grayzone video reporting on Hezbollah, Iran and…