You Can Buy Famous People’s Dog-Eared Books—For a Good Cause
Artist Joshua Greene’s project Read By Famous auctions off celebrities’ personal copies of books. The post You Can Buy Famous…
Here’s How Many Super Tuesday Voters Are Climate Deniers
Stats like this go a long way toward explaining why all five of the remaining GOP presidential candidates continue to…
Defense Secretary Carter: The Gov and Silicon Valley Are on the Same Team
As the government steps up its efforts to address security threats in cyberspace, it’s also trying its best to look…
But First, Coffee: Now You Can Brew Your Nespresso With an App
The coffee-in-a-pod company Nespresso has introduced its first machine that lets you prepare your coffee from distance anytime using the…
Where to Put Your Router to Optimize Your Home Wi-Fi
It’s not just how you use it. It’s where you use it. The post Where to Put Your Router to…
Gerard Butler Answers Your Burning Google Searches About Him
When people Google things about actor Gerard Butler, they ask a lot of weird questions. We decided to get some…
We Must Regulate Bitcoin. Problem Is, We Don’t Understand It
Regulation should be elaborated carefully lest it curtail the future of blockchain technologies. The post We Must Regulate Bitcoin. Problem…
These Squiggly Signatures Are Actually Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Data artist Nicholas Rougeux turned all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets into squiggly signatures. The post These Squiggly Signatures Are Actually…
The Physics of Dropping Out of a Plane in an Inflatable Ball
The MythBusters wanted to test if you could survive a fall in an inflatable ball. But how high would you…
Finally, an Exhaustive Structural Analysis of ‘Damn Daniel’
Damn Daniel wasn’t just another incomprehensible meme. It was a sublime distillation of the last half-century of pop culture. The…