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The richest man in the world has become one of the most influential voices in the world.

May 3, 2022

If the conservative justice’s draft opinion is adopted by the Court, key advances of the past hundred years could be rolled back.

For some years I taught classes at a martial arts center. With students of all shapes and sizes, you get really good at sizing up other people's bodies through their motions, and I prided myself on being able to deduce who had had knee surgery, who had tight hips, who

A promising idea for blue states to require their congressional maps to promote national partisan fairness to the extent possible.

French Emperor Napoleon III had planned to trade weapons for cotton with Confederate states during France's invasion of Mexico. However, the Mexican army's resolve surprised him.

Adam Mastroianni runs the numbers on how consolidated and self-referential pop culture has become. More than 80 percent of the top 20 movies are now sequels or spinoffs, and they account for some 6…

To understand how climate change is altering our planet, it helps to know a little Earth science.

Imagine if your boss made up hundreds of petty rules and refused to disclose them, but every week, your pay was docked based on how many of those rules you broke. When you’re an online creator and your “boss” is a giant social media platform, that’s exactly how your compensation works.“Algospeak”...

They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.

Spies, voting machine companies and Big Pharma are still your natural enemies.

The original expression implies that preaching to the converted is a waste of time. After all, why bother marketing to people who are already on the team? The reality is that the people who aren&#8…

A little workshop in Minokamo City, central Japan receives countless requests from across Japan to repair damaged clothes. Kaketsugi, or invisible mending, is a technique for repairing holes or tears in fabric. The shop is run by a father-and-daughter team: Kataoka Tesshu, with 40 years of experience as a craftsman, and his daughter Goto Yoshiko. The pair research weaving patterns in fabrics and are able to use a needle to accurately weave threads into gaps as small as 0.1 millimeter. The program follows them as they restore the cherished garments they receive.

Emerging bio-, nano-, and cyber-technologies are enabling criminals to target anyone anywhere and, due to democratization, increasingly at scale.

It’s the only way to signal that the United States is committed to making even the world’s most powerful states pay for their war crimes.

Why does burnout appear to be a growing phenomenon, and could we imagine a future without it? Q&A with author Jonathan Malesic, on why work drains us and what we can do to fix it.

Bitcoin is a transparent ledger without a central authority. Confused? Don't worry, this post will explain what Bitcoin is in plain English.

The joy of tinkering, making, and sharing is part of the human condition. In modern times, this creative freedom too often is stifled by secrecy as a means of monetization - from non-compete laws to quashing people’s right to repair the products they’ve already paid for.Adam Savage—the maker...

odcast Episode: Making Hope, with Adam Savage

A project by WTTDOTM and Alex Petros that uses AI to tell you why you're in the wrong in a situation, but also why you're in the right.

Have you interacted with young adults lately? Even more pertinently, have you tried teaching them? The trouble they have in paying attention can perhaps best be encapsulated by the trouble they have in not using their phones while watching a movie; what was once considered a mindless break from more challenging classwork, now feels unbearably […]