Society

How do you create wealth? One answer is by enabling trade. British company Ox Delivers observed that the Global South is hamstrung in this regard; entrepreneurial individuals are hampered by unreliable transportation networks, and without an efficient way to ship goods, prosperity through trade is impossible. The company thus designed

Slow, expensive, and unreliable transport is stifling trade in the Global South. OX Delivers is removing these barriers with a complete transport & trade solution to unlock opportunity and create wealth.

Under owner Elon Musk, the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, has become a hotbed of  white supremacist and neo-Nazi content. A recent

Two books explore the price we’ve paid in handing over unprecedented power to Big Tech—and explain why it’s imperative we start taking it back.

A flurry of drone sightings across New Jersey and New York has sparked national intrigue and US government responses. But experts are pouring cold water on America’s hottest new conspiracy theory.

What other kind of company inspires this sort of hatred?

Not all of them found success as quickly as Mark Zuckerberg, who became a millionaire at 22.

You usually don't see warships rocking the Jolly Roger.

Millions would be better off if the US changed its joint filing system.

An anti-establishment technology for an anti-establishment age

The brazen murder of a CEO in Midtown Manhattan—and the cheering reaction to his execution—amounts to a blinking-and-blaring warning signal for a society that has become already too inured to bloodshed.

The author of 'The AI Mirror' worries about what we're doing to our moral muscles as we grow more reliant on machines.

Sometimes, the quickest way to kill something is to give it a name

How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert

A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

The political designation “the left” originated during the French Revolution in 1789. In the National Assembly, those who opposed the king’s veto and supported change sat on the l…

Do they want to help writers or destroy them?

Ambos Nogales refers to the two cities of Nogales, Arizona, United States, and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. They lie 60 miles directly south of Tucson, Arizona, divided by the Mexico–United States barrier. Though divided by the border between their respective nation states, the two municipalities have historically shared a sense of community alluded to in their description as "Ambos Nogales," as well as other sayings and phrases alluding to this camaraderie. The motto of Nogales, Sonora, is Juntos por amor a Nogales, meaning "United by the love of Nogales". Ambos Nogales has become a subject of anthropological and archaeological research due to the ways in which the material presence of the border wall has impacted the lives of those living in these cities. Investigation of community, migration, immigration, drug trafficking, gang violence, and all of the activities associated with these has occurred at Ambos Nogales due to its unique identity and geographic position.

Based on the sharp decline of the G rating, apparently not. Learn why Hollywood seems to have left the general rating designation behind.

The industry’s blame game will not end the US national health care nightmare.

Why Brian Thompson’s death has provoked such complicated reactions from the public.

DMT, “the nuclear bomb of the psychedelic family,” explained.

25 years later, Kyle Mooney’s new movie revisits the apocalypse that wasn’t.

Our earliest studies of Neanderthals were fundamentally flawed.

A brief history of how America’s public housing experiment was designed to fail.

China tightens its grip on materials necessary for US military and its proxies as Washington turns to those who squandered American advantages to fix the problem — or profit from it.

Internet-service providers must disclose prices and speeds on labels like packaged foods—but consumers can’t find or understand them.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is an emergency stockpile of petroleum maintained by the United States Department of Energy (DOE). It is the largest publicly known emergency supply in the world; its underground tanks in Louisiana and Texas have capacity for 714 million barrels (113,500,000 m3). The United States started the petroleum reserve in 1975 to mitigate future supply disruptions as part of the international Agreement on an International Energy Program, after oil supplies were interrupted during the 1973–1974 oil embargo.