May 22, 2013

Student Financial Aid Goes To The Rich And The Poor Get Debt Instead.



Global inaction shows that the climate sceptics have already won.



Mozambique Diary: Alipes.



American ISP customer satisfaction rankings: lower than airlines.



Open-plan offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more likely to get sick.



May 21, 2013

Employee Abuse Runs Rampant In America.



Yitang Zhang Proves ‘Landmark’ Theorem in Distribution of Prime Numbers.



May 19, 2013

Virtual Worm.



Study Charts 2,000 Years of Continental Climate Changes.



May 18, 2013

Let’s Fight Big Pharma’s Crusade to Turn Eccentricity Into Illness.



Navy dolphins discover rare old torpedo off Coronado.



May 17, 2013

Dear Class of ’13: You’ve been scammed.



These people are fundamentally broken as individuals.



May 16, 2013

Aaron Swartz Versus the Bankers.



i’m never going to have a baby, so shut the fuck up about it.



What’s a Library?: Written by a man rich enough to live on W. 53rd St. who’s never been to the library and Googles everything.



May 15, 2013

Everyday Socialism, American-Style, Is Happening Now.



Why the world faces climate chaos.



Report: Long-term benefits don’t keep people jobless.



What Marissa Mayer Doesn’t (and Does) Get About White-Collar Work.



Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write.



May 14, 2013

Supermarkets cash in on unfounded fears about food and health.



Why the Digital Revolution Won’t be a Rerun of the Industrial Revolution.



May 13, 2013

Less than 30% of Speaking Roles in Blockbuster Films Last Year Went to Women.



The Science of Loneliness: How Isolation Can Kill You.



Florida Man!



The Customer Service Problem at McDonald’s Is a Symptom of a Much Bigger Problem.



Our Internet Surveillance State.



Obama Did It for the Money.



May 12, 2013

Now They Want to Take Away the 8-Hour Day and 40-Hour Week.



Flesh-Eating Plant Has No More Junk in its DNA Trunk.



Germany bucks global trends by abolishing tuition.



The Strongest Woman In America Lives In Poverty.



The Truth Of Wolves, Or: The Alpha Problem.



The 5 Most Insulting Defenses of Nerd Racism.



May 11, 2013

The Long Shadow of Bad Credit in a Job Search. Even though I have good credit, I will not work for any employer who pulls a credit report.



In Defense of Daydreaming.



May 10, 2013

Hero rats.



May 9, 2013

Maggie.



Sometimes, the conservatives are (accidentally) right about nanny state overreach.



May 8, 2013

Never Underestimate the Power of a Paint Tube.



College is a bad financial bet for some, study says.



Why Your ‘Green Lifestyle’ Choices Don’t Really Matter.



May 7, 2013

Minimum Rage.



May 6, 2013

On Dilettantism and the Virtues of Pursuing Multiple Interests.



Our American Pravda.



Why the search for a unified theory may turn out to be a pipe dream.



Fail.



As was inevitable, kids come up with the first real-world use of a gender-neutral pronoun.



May 5, 2013

Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth Catalog, the book that changed the world.



May 4, 2013

This is one of the best things I have ever read.



What it looks like when misogynist idiots get told.



May 1, 2013

The Complex and Pathogen-Laden World of Ticks.



April 30, 2013

Once an invasive, always an invasive?



April 29, 2013

The Rise of the Corporate State.



Obama: Mortgaging the Living to Save the Wealth of the Dead. Why I did not vote for Obama, as I knew that would happen.



April 28, 2013

Solar is about to Change our World.



We have become squatters in the ruins of the great democratic societies of the past.



April 11, 2013

Google, now in Full Evil mode.



April 10, 2013

Lost in the Supermarket.



April 9, 2013

Women With Both High Math and Verbal Ability Appear Less Likely to Choose Science Careers.



April 6, 2013

Welfare reform: £53 a week… You do the maths.



The average human vagina.



March 24, 2013

YouTube 2011 vs. YouTube 2013.



March 22, 2013

Facebook shocked that a woman runs I Fcking Love Science.



Kudos To Sara Volz.



March 21, 2013

Put A Bird On It.



March 20, 2013

Henry Rollins Comments On Steubenville Rape Verdict.



March 19, 2013

Misunderstanding the p-value.



Forget the Cellphone Fight — We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own.



March 17, 2013

Food stamps put Rhode Island town on monthly boom-and-bust cycle.



The Rape Culture Inside CNN. We Are All Steubenville Football Players Today.



Bill Gates: capitalism means male baldness research gets more funding than malaria.



The new Tomb Raider.



For example, according to the USGCRP estimates, under a high-emissions scenario, areas of the Southeast and Southwest that currently experience an average of 60 days a year with a high temperature above 90°F will experience 150 or more such days by the end of the century.



March 10, 2013

Another major failure of economics.



How “Nice Guys” relate to women.



March 9, 2013

Opinion: On Being an “African-American Scientist.”



Believe it.



March 8, 2013

The enigma of the Ford paradox.



Plants make bees remember them fondly with a jolt of caffeine.



March 7, 2013

Yuppies Might Be the Only Market for Same-Day Delivery.



Women in SF&F Month: N. K. Jemisin.



Greta Christina’s Blog: An Open Letter to the Fat-Positive Movement.



March 6, 2013

States Move to Criminalize Whistleblowing on Food Fraud and Animal Cruelty.



Five reasons why Windows 8 has failed.



10 years later, Dixie Chicks right all along.



New York Cops Will Arrest You for Carrying Condoms.



March 5, 2013

Yahoo: Mayer culpa.



Insect wings shred bacteria to pieces.



March 4, 2013

Gender Bias 101 For Mathematicians.



Wage-Slavery and Republican Liberty.



March 3, 2013

What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years.



James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher.



The Jobs Are Never Coming Back. Nice to see others realizing something that has been obvious for a long time.



How The Suffragists Upstaged Woodrow Wilson In Washington.



March 2, 2013

Why Five Days in the Office Is Too Many.



“Even as you get near the upper reaches of the normal weight range, you begin to see increases in chronic diseases,” said JoAnn Manson, a professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. “It’s a clear gradient of increase. There is no evidence here of any global protective factor for being overweight.”



Online Misogynists Are Not Fringe Characters.



Len Deighton’s Bomber, the first book ever written on a word processor.