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An MIT study finds the same consumers tend to purchase failed products. Dubbed “harbingers of failure,” these buyers may provide new window into consumer behavior and behavioral economics.

How a single instrument defined the 1980s and beyond | Prospero

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For over a century, one of the most important salmon runs in the United States has had to contend with historic dams – and now four of them are set to be taken down.

THE THINGS THAT WOW US - THE MONTH OF AMAZING INVENTIONS ON BRITISH PATHÉ (AUGUST 2015): Newsreel of the Week: The "Wonderful" Uses of Asbestos (1942).

A look at how asbestos is formed and at the various fireproof goods it can be used to make. One of many…

17 EU member states signed a joint declaration to commit to work together in developing next generation, trusted low-power embedded processors.

Picked for Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction in Translation of 2020. Named a Book of the Year by NPR, Vox, and The New Statesman. Picked for Loyalty Books’ Ho...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of the Trump administration's plan to require hospitals and insurers to disclose the actual prices for common tests and procedures....

Tomorrow, Zynga shuts down FarmVille on Facebook after 11 years. I wanted to share the story of how we created it and why it has played such an important role in the evolution of gaming. 1/x

Much of the author’s work may have fallen into public ownership in the UK, but there are more restrictions on its use remaining than you might expect, explains his biographer

It is my tradition to end the year looking back and start the year looking forward. So today, I will write about 2020 in the context of tech/startups/VC/crypto. While it is inarguably the case that 2020 was a terrible year with a global pandemic, racial strife…

The world’s current and next innovations depend on a single country: Taiwan. It’s probably one country you might never hear about, or perhaps confuse with its neighbor, Thailand, or even think it’s a part of China.
I’ve been living in Taiwan for 3+ years…

A British nudist who liked to give press briefings wearing only a pith helmet and boots and a dapper Scotsman partial to wearing kilts with his dress

Your parents’ good intentions might have undermined your confidence – but you can do something about it.

AUSTIN, Texas — Producing clean water at a lower cost could be on the horizon after researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and Penn State