Curious Loop

Millions of people use various bandwidths to consume content on multiple devices and platforms simultaneously. Many would credit multiple servers and data centres working round the clock for making this possible. But the real deal here is software, and the men and women who work tirelessly to deliver a seamless viewing experience to you, the end user.

Happy Holidays. In this special issue we are reprinting our top stories of the past year. This article first appeared online in our…

Nearly 2,000 years on, how are the Colosseum and the Pantheon still standing despite earthquakes, floods and military conflicts?

Composer Magazine is a platform for inspiration showcasing emerging artists and interviews with top composers writing the latest Hollywood blockbuster film scores.

An enigma onscreen and off, the actress only magnified her celebrity by suddenly renouncing it.

After working on biomedical literature search, discovery and recommender web applications for many months I concluded that extracting, structuring or synthesizing "insights" from academic publications (papers) has negligible value in industry.

Avoiding centralization is an important goal for Internet protocols. This document offers a definition of centralization, discusses why it is necessary for Internet protocol designers to consider its risks, identifies different kinds of centralization, catalogues some limitations of current approaches to controlling it, and recommends best practices for protocol designers.

Why don't facts change our minds? This article explains the logic of false beliefs and proposes a better system for constructive conversation.

Yes, Web3 is a bunch of bullshit. The problem is, compared to what?

/Film spoke with several Oscar-winning sound designers, editors, and mixers to learn why it has become tougher to understand what characters are saying.

A new book by journalist Lina Zeldovich traces the management of human waste—and underscores poop's potential as a valuable resource

Christine Rosen on doing too much at once

30 underrated reasons to be thankful, starting with the fact that atomic bombs don’t ignite the atmosphere

The Schlörwagen (nicknamed "Göttinger Egg" or "Pillbug") was a prototype aerodynamic rear-engine passenger vehicle developed by Karl Schlör (1911–1997).

If listeners today can stream just about any song they want, why are so many music aficionados still buying records? Ryan Raffaelli and Gold Rush Vinyl CEO Caren Kelleher discuss the resurgence of vinyl.

The volcanic island of Jeju is a wild paradise home to haenyeo, the women of the sea. Follow us as we join the free divers on a treasure hunt along its winding coast.

When organizations optimize metrics at the cost of all else, they expose themselves to metric corruption. Ultimately, as the Facebook scandal illustrates, they may fail their users and their business goals.

The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.

For over a year the media enforced falsehoods about the pandemic’s origins, never evaluated the evidence, never apologized, and was never held accountable

I’ve had some lingering thoughts over the past year about what it means to be a “creator,” further accelerated by a recent conversation with a friend, and I want to try to unpack those feelings here.

The jury system offers clues to managers everywhere

"What I really thought was that if people knew how difficult it was, no one would attempt it, that there must be a conspiracy of silence among authors, since this misconception that everyone had a book in them was so widely held," writes Tabitha Lasley.

"What I really thought was that if people knew how difficult it was, no one would attempt it, that there must be a conspiracy of silence among authors, since this misconception that everyone had a book in them was so widely held," writes Tabitha Lasley.

Netflix says it’s heard the complaints about how it “cherry picks” the self-reported data it releases about content viewed on its platform. So the company has announced a major ex…

Recycling glass does not degrade it, and manufacturing it can be carbon-free. So why are many countries still burying glass in the ground?