You Think You Know Grades? Here’s How They Really Work
When you grade on a curve, you make assumptions about the student population. When you don’t, you make an assumption…
Review: Sonos Playbase
Meet the super-wireless, super-expensive speaker at the center of your new home theater. The post Review: Sonos Playbase appeared first…
A Newfangled Traffic Light Built for People and Robots
Industrial designer Evgeny Arinin designed an LED display that uses its shape, big arrows, and punchy icons to clearly articulate the…
Making Videogames the Old-Fashioned Way—On a 52-Hour Train Ride
What do you call 300 people on a four-day Amtrak voyage from Chicago to the Bay Area, making videogames all…
Pricey Technology Is Keeping People Alive Who Don’t Want to Live
Opinion: Some medical technology is improving life and worsening death. The post Pricey Technology Is Keeping People Alive Who Don’t…
This Artist Turns Sweat and Bacteria Into Art
It’s fine art that really grows on you. The post This Artist Turns Sweat and Bacteria Into Art appeared first…
How Facebook Helps to Reveal the Fate of Missing Refugees
As millions of people flee conflict zones, thousands disappear—into new lives or into the sea. Social media can help locate…
Ford’s First Hybrid Cop Car Is One Mean, Green Machine
Nice to the planet, mean to criminals. The post Ford’s First Hybrid Cop Car Is One Mean, Green Machine appeared…
While You Were Offline: Free Nuggs. Pls RT
Need a distraction from the crazy news of the last week? Take a few seconds and retweet this man’s plea…
Russia’s Quest to Build a Space Empire—or Go Broke Trying
Roscosmos is helping upstart space programs achieve lift off, partly because they want to turn them into customers. The post…