Society

CSIRO has released a once-in-a-decade report which identifies and details seven global megatrends.

Why do major blockbuster effects look so shaky? And why are so many VFX artists overworked and miserable? Here's the answer.

'I think it's the content boom, and the pressure to produce high-quality work at a low cost in short time, that is an industry-wide issue.'

Publishers are suing the Internet Archive over an online book lending program. But the case could limit the ways libraries lend books online.

Our current model of collective bargaining leaves millions of workers out in the cold. Sectoral bargaining could change all that—and, just maybe, rebuild our shrunken middle class.

Workers (and their families) are stressed by the long hours they have to put in. It’s past time to cut those hours.

A method that fights the problem of adverse selection in markets with asymmetric information.

When Frederic Taylor brought the world Scientific Management a hundred years ago, it changed what it meant to run a factory. Stopwatches and assembly lines dramatically outperformed the traditional…

Episode 418 of the Cyberlaw Podcast

Black, Indigenous and Latino people in Washington have disproportionately higher court fines and fees, a recent study found, making it harder for some to rebuild after prison.

Requiring every citizen to vote would make our elections more inclusive and our democracy more legitimate.

The Republican party is against society

The B-2 program began when Jimmy Carter was president in the late 1970s. Originally, the Air Force wanted over 100 bombers - it was cut back.

Make the case for working remotely — but not so much that your job gets outsourced.

There Is No Enigma — He's a Fascist

When Money Trumps logic

Something magical happens when people are in alignment and an idea becomes a bestseller. When there’s a line out the door. When there’s a buzz in the room. When people are talking about…

Apparently the famous "fight-or-flight" response is a conclusion that was gained from examining male rats. And it turns out that it might not apply the exact same way when it comes to female rats. Now, humans aren't rats — so that's another problem with the "fight-or-flight" thing for sure — but this (2000) paper has

Posted by Winnie Xu, Student Researcher and Kuang-Huei Lee, Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Current deep reinforcement lea...

Mars, Inc., is best known for making chocolate bars. But it also owns the most pet hospitals in the U.S., and workers say the conditions are toxic.