Tony Scott had already boarded his flight from Seattle to Dallas back in July when his problems started. It was about 8 p.m. on a Sunday night when the flight crew asked the passengers to get off the ...

The author and cartoonist explains why we should dismantle the nuclear family and build something bigger. I became a mom three months before the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus ...

As the government wipes important sexual health information from official websites and targets research funding simply for the presence of words like “women” and “sex,” it’s more important than ever ...

If you’ve ever wandered through a library and wondered why history is over here, while cooking lives comfortably over there, you have Melvil Dewey to thank. He’s the 19th-century librarian who looked ...

Near the end of the film A House of Dynamite, a fictional American president portrayed by Idris Elba sums up the theory of nuclear deterrence. “Just being ready is the point, right?” Elba says. “It ...

Marketers love new tools. Lift tests, incrementality studies and causal marketing mix modeling (MMM) frameworks all promise clarity in a noisy world. But the biggest challenge facing the industry ...

If companies can modify internet-connected products and charge subscriptions after people have already purchased them, what does it mean to own anything anymore? Paul Wieland, the inventor of RATGDO, ...

The next generation of technology must be built in dialogue with artists, storytellers and cultural thinkers to create tools that feel human, not just functional. Technological advancements like AI ...

The physics of thermodynamics, which involves quantities like heat and entropy, offers well-established tools for determining how far from equilibrium an idealised system of particles is. But when it ...

A data center under construction in Loudoun County, Va. (David Kidd/Governing) Headlines have been full of misunderstood and misrepresented claims about data centers. If you only looked at this ...

Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...