Society

Industries are often held together by unspoken hierarchies, signposts on the road to achievement. In the fancy parts of the book business, it’s not profit. Editors are often unaware of which …

A new study has shown that psychopathic people have a bigger striatum area in their brain Neuroscientists using MRI scans discovered that psychopathic people have a 10% larger striatum, a cluster of neurons in the subcortical basal ganglia of the forebrain, than regular people. This represents a cl

Not too much money.

Leaving a job working on a vital piece of infrastructure for a web3 project.

His long list of unfulfilled commitments wildly exceeds his achievements.

Researchers in Japan demonstrated the benefits of a new non-radioactive, neutral negative staining reagent by imaging viruses at nanometer-scale.

There’s a general sense that it’s bad for society—which may be right. But studies offer surprisingly few easy answers.

Priceless cultural artifacts have been plundered and sold for hundreds of years. You can find these relics in museums and in private collections. In recent years, with the advent of online marketplaces, researchers have begun to find a lot of artifacts for sale on the web. The Syrian War has resulted in hundreds of thousands

The $1.8tn plan would introduce measures including a national childcare programme and free tuition for community college. Plus, fully vaccinated Americans can now go out without a mask

With intentional neighboring at the core of OHANA’s purpose, social infrastructure will play a key role in how the built environment in this new type of neighborhood will encourage and support people coming together to support each other through the life stages.

A definition of social infrastructure with examples.

Molly White, a 28-year-old software engineer who edits Wikipedia pages in her spare time, has become an unlikely thorn in the side of the burgeoning cryptocurrency movement. As the tech and finance world largely embrace crypto tech, she's helping lead a band of skeptics pushing the other direction.

Cowering in a luxury bunker is a lousy retirement plan.

As the 2022 midterms approach, see what issues people in your congressional district care about.

Developers are the engines of growth for any software company. Nurturing a hacker culture is beneficial to the company's bottom line, which eventually will raise the tactical level of the whole operations.

The federal government plans to build several hydrogen hubs around the country. The goal is to find a cleaner replacement for fossil fuels. But there are challenges in how hydrogen is produced.

via NPR When it’s used to fuel a car or power plant, hydrogen’s chief byproduct is water — not climate-warming carbon dioxide. But finding a clean and cheap source for making hydrogen h…

From the dick swinging of 'Top Gun' to the sentimentalism of 'Top Gun: Maverick'

Built to survive a nuclear attack, these Air Force aircraft are expected to fly well past their 50th birthday.

Election models can estimate where votes are out, giving observers a chance to see where the election might be headed.

Where is the internet we were promised? It feels like we’re dominated by megalithic, siloed platforms where users have little or no say over how their data is used and little recourse if they disagree, where direct interaction with users is seen as a bug to be fixed, and where art and creativity...