Birds are weird. Everyone knows it, but no one has investigated it. Until now.On Tuesday, Dan Baldassarre, an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Oswego, announced that his research paper answering 'What's the Deal with Birds?' had been published in the Sci … | Continue reading
Elon Musk's ventilator giveaway may do more harm than good.After weeks of brushing off the COVID-19 pandemic as 'dumb,' the billionaire Tesla founder earlier this week announced he had 1,000 'FDA-approved ventilators' and ended up donating 40 to New York City's hospital system. E … | Continue reading
On the coming epidemic of despair | Continue reading
China's claims of how it's handling coronavirus recovery should be taken with more than a few grains of salt.Even before COVID-19 became a global crisis, Chinese leaders had been criticized for their handling of the situation and lack of transparency about the disease's progressi … | Continue reading
Amid criticism over the government's ability to test for cases of the new coronavirus, President Trump on Wednesday attempted to shift the blame to, who else, his predecessor former President Barack Obama.Speaking to reporters alongside Vice President Mike Pence, who's in charge … | Continue reading
Why TV news always eats its own | Continue reading
Unexplained discrepancies are appearing in measurements of how rapidly the universe is expanding | Continue reading
Not cars. E-bikes. | Continue reading
A president acquitted by his own party after abusing the power of his office. A vote that can't be counted due to incompetence and the enrichment of insiders. A billionaire buying an election. This is how democracies die. | Continue reading
This bull market is built on sand | Continue reading
Google and Facebook haven't built flying cars — and that's okay | Continue reading
If the show weren't so great, it would be terrible | Continue reading
Today, half of all phone calls are automated scams. Here's everything you need to know. | Continue reading
It took a few weeks, but the impeachment hearings finally saw their first protester.House Judiciary Committee Chair Jarrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) had just gaveled a hearing on the findings of the Intelligence Committee's impeachment investigation into order when a protester silenced hi … | Continue reading
Officially, the Special Collection Service doesn't exist. Unofficially, its snoops travel the world intercepting private messages and cracking high-tech encryptions | Continue reading
They may look funny, but they're probably here to stay | Continue reading
On Deadspin, The Awl, and the end of a golden age of cultural criticism | Continue reading
How streaming platforms are changing art | Continue reading
On Deadspin, The Awl, and the end of a golden age of cultural criticism | Continue reading
The road to unemployment is paved with good intentions | Continue reading
Google just announced a major computing breakthrough.The company on Wednesday said it has achieved "quantum supremacy," meaning getting a quantum computer to perform a task that a classical computer cannot, The New York Times reports.Specifically, Google says its researchers' qua … | Continue reading
The saga of the grounded airliner has dragged on months longer than observers initially expected | Continue reading
The radicalizing experience of the Great Recession is set to repeat itself | Continue reading
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is turning his heart attack into a PSA.The 2020 candidate was hospitalized last week with what his doctors later said was a heart attack, leading Sanders to suspend his campaign events and a forthcoming Iowa ad buy. Sanders hasn't said if he'll resume … | Continue reading
The little-known story behind the recording of the penultimate record from the legendary alt-rock pioneers | Continue reading
Today's really not the best day for someone at the White House to be extremely bad at email.In the aftermath of the memorandum showing President Trump pushing for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, the White House was quick to s … | Continue reading
Before she died, she was hunting for the Golden State Killer. Her posthumously published book asks readers to pick up where she left off. | Continue reading
Global warming is an emergency, not a trifle to be dealt with decades hence | Continue reading
Electric cars are a transportation evolution. But we need a revolution. | Continue reading
On rock music’s losing battle with mortality | Continue reading
Uh oh.Warren Buffett, known for being one of the world's most prescient investors, has kept quiet on whether U.S. equities are too expensive at a time when the global economy is slowing, Bloomberg reports. But he's reportedly hoarding a record $122 billion in cash at Berkshire Ha … | Continue reading
Twitter-brain is real, and it's only a preview of our augmented-reality future | Continue reading
Once-and-future action hero and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) may not be the best person to convince President Trump about the merits of unequivocally condemning neo-Nazis and white supremacists, given their history and especially when he uses a Trump bobble-he … | Continue reading
Cars are both inefficient and incredibly dangerous | Continue reading
Visa and MasterCard make billions off transaction fees, effectively raising prices on everything you buy | Continue reading
Visa and MasterCard make billions off transaction fees, effectively raising prices on everything you buy | Continue reading
It's all about network effects | Continue reading
Artists take on his response to the mass shooting, his incitement of racism, and more | Continue reading
A recent survey paints a bleak picture of modern America | Continue reading
This tweet was questionable to begin with. The timing made it even worse.Over the weekend, a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas left 22 people dead, and another in Dayton, Ohio killed nine people. But that didn't stop Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) campaign Twitter … | Continue reading
At some point, Americans traded soul-soothing leisure time for economic growth — to their detriment | Continue reading
The truth about American inequality | Continue reading
A mysterious cabal of billionaires and politicians and Hollywood bigwigs running an international sex trafficking ring — ridiculous, right? | Continue reading
Multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein was arrested again this weekend on sex trafficking and abuse charges.Epstein was arrested Saturday in New York after allegedly running a sex trafficking ring involving dozens of minors, an indictment unsealed Monday revealed. He's been arrested an … | Continue reading
What Democratic presidential candidates should have said in response to the question | Continue reading