Some investors, tempted to chase bigger gains, are borrowing against their investment portfolios, pushing margin balances to the first record in more than two years.

Unilever said it would resume advertising on Facebook in the U.S. after withdrawing over the summer amid calls for brands to protest the company’s handling of hate speech and misinformation on its platforms.

If you regularly read cognitive science or psychology blogs (or even just the lowly New York Times!), you’ve probably heard of something called the Dunning-Kruger effect. The Dunning-Kruger e…

Early this fall, as companies began hiring executives to make remote work a long-term reality, a buzzy new job gained traction in Silicon Valley: The Director of Remote Work.

The Royal Geographical Society of London declared that bees are the most important living being on the planet.

In 1937, before a shot was even fired in Europe, Imperial Japanese forces were engaged in a long, bloody conflict in China – and it is during this period that we catch a glimpse of the atroci…

Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, have made the extraordinary find of a frescoed hot food and drinks shop that served up the ancient equivalent of street food to Roman passersby.

Multilevel-marketing companies rely on social media for recruiting. TikTok just became the first major platform to ban it.

Going down the API-First Ecosystem Rabbit Hole with Shopify, Stripe, Twilio, and more

I frequently read about proposals for new solar power developments where the resulting power is moved great distances to less sunny places, such as northern Europe from the Sahara, the US North Eas…

"Systems design" is a branch of study that tries to find universal
architectural patterns that are valid across disciplines.

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Holiday 2020 project, building a custom HomeKit enabled thermostat

Although I read voraciously, I’ve never been a big consumer of business books. With a few exceptions, they seem to get to the point in three chapters and t ...