When does our taste in music stagnate?

You can't keep all your balls in the air all the time but that's ok! Learn how to decide which to drop and which to keep in the air.

An extra dimension that you can play with.

An incredible eclipse photo years in the making.

My earliest childhood friend, Steven. All photos by John P. Weiss

Everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ.

A spate of deaths and lawsuits ended the famous pizza marketing ploy. Is delivery any safer now?

A veteran NASA scientist says his company has tested a propellantless propulsion drive technology that produced one Earth gravity of thrust.

The deadline for YC S24 is tomorrow. Here's why you SHOULD NOT APPLY TO YC:YC seems like a reasonable proposition. They give you some money to help start your business, and they promise you access to a community of people that can help you along the way. In exchange, they don't… pic.twitter.com/8FJOc8SxWq— Daniel Vassallo (@dvassallo) April 20, 2024

My founder friends constantly think about growth. They think about how to measure their business growth and how to get to the next order of magnitude scale. If they’re making $1M ARR today, they think about how to get to $10M ARR. If they have 1,000 users today, they think about how to get to 10,000 users.

Since 1984 a secretive AI project has been building a massive knowledge base to enable human-like reasoning. Will it work?

In all the Universe, only a few particles are eternally stable. The photon, the quantum of light, has an infinite lifetime. Or does it?

Fossil and living birds reveal the dazzling biology of feathers

From the flying British aircraft carriers in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow to the helicarriers of S.H.I.E.L.D.

30 years before parents and lawmakers sought to save youth from smartphones via age limits and bans in schools, a similar conversation took place about a pre-cursor to the cellphone: pagers Through the 1980s pagers became increasingly popular with teens, and also:

Cow magnets are very popular with farmers, ranchers, and veterinarians since they are a well-known method of preventing hardware disease in cattle.

The city of Uji in Kyoto has been famed for tea for more than eight centuries, but much has been lost in the depths of that time. Now a group of locals are working to revive Asahien, one of Uji’s seven famed tea farms of the past, with plants discovered on the grounds of a city temple.

The how, where, why, and when we communicate. Long form asynchronous? Real-time chat? In-person? Video? Verbal? Written? Via email? In Basecamp? How do we keep everyone in the loop without everyone getting tangled in everyone else’s business? It’s all in here.

Unboxing the dark arts of finance

Welcome to the home of the world's largest typewriter company.

or How a Rebellious Youth Briefly Conquered the World

Credit card rewards are mostly funded out of interchange, a fee paid by businesses to accept cards.

At a recent panel at the 2024 NICAR conference, Karrie Kehoe, deputy head of data and research at ICIJ, offered a series of tips for investigating the true owners of shell companies.

Wherever you find an old homestead—a house and barn with a little bit of land that has stood from sometime in the 1800s or early 1900s—you’ll find an

Appearing in the written record as early as 2300 BCE, saffron can be traced in foodways around the globe, despite the finicky nature of its harvest.

As miners ravage Yanomami lands, combat-trained environmentalists work to root them out.

Morris Chang had decades of experience before he founded a business that’s indispensable to the global economy. What can other middle-aged entrepreneurs learn from him?

Melina Moe writes about the rejection letters Toni Morrison sent as an editor at Random House....

The world faces many troubles. Pervasive social media is stealing innocence from children; there is the breakdown of the family in the…

For the past four years, at 9 a.m. every day, Reva Malik heads to the terrace of her independent house in Bengaluru. She sets up a solar cooker and places dishes in trays for a three-course meal. Unlike conventional cooking, she does not have to stir the veggies or add spices at intervals. Judging by […]