At the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users. That number, the company’s preferred ‘metric’ when measuring its own size, means two billion different people used Facebook in the preceding month. It is hard to grasp . . .
At least the line at the taqueria will be shorter if nearly all of the Bay Area’s renters take off. The poll of 24,000 renters in 50 cities found that most tenants in most cities have eyes elsewhere.
Set within the snowy peaks of the Sierra Nevada, the Tahoe Twirl is a 4-5 day bikepacking loop that circumnavigates the vast and mesmerising Lake Tahoe.
The berry behemoth turned produce into a beauty contest, and won.
Evidence that undermines the "election hack" narrative should get more attention.
We must stop fucking it up for the amazing women in tech!
Donald Trump is never more at home than he is on the links. But, as with everything in the life of a President, his relationship with the game—and the
Did you know that in every language, the most frequent word occurs twice as often as the second most frequent word? This phenomenon called 'Zipf's law' is more than one century old, but until now, scientists have not been able to elucidate it exactly. Sander Lestrade, a linguist at Radboud University in The Netherlands, proposes a new solution to this notorious problem in PLOS ONE.
To maintain a grip on reality, the brain must question its expectations
His threats against North Korea expose the many dangers of the White House's post-9/11 powers. Here's what Congress must do.
Don't be taken in by the memo’s faux-reasonable tone.
A wealthy patron and a trio of grandmasters are coming for Bobby Fischer’s legacy.
Yes, they're hard to do. But our narrow moral vocabulary for describing non-professional pursuits is making our lives worse.
You’ve probably seen the Watson commercials, where what looks like a sentient box interacts with celebrities like Bob Dylan , Carrie Fisher , and Serena…
The long read: More and more singers are cancelling big shows and turning to surgery to fix their damaged vocal cords. But is the problem actually down to the way they sing?
The Black Witch , a debut young-adult fantasy novel by Laurie Forest, was still seven weeks from its May 1 publication date, but positive buzz was already…
Protesters rally in St. Louis. (Jeff Curry/Getty Images) Progressives generally support better labor protections, including policies meant to provide higher…
A Backchannel investigation reveals the difficult issues police and communities face when they adopt the secretive firm’s data-scooping software.
When I first came across Katherine Boo’s work in journalism school, I was immediately taken with her ability to expose injustice while weaving gorgeous narratives.
Participating in endurance sports requires two main things : lots of time and money. Time because training, traveling, racing, recovery, and the inevitable…
How the spread of barbed wire helped redraw the map of the USA.
<p>by Merry Youle | Evolution skeptics point to complex biological features as evidence that the amazing intricacy of the biological world could not be the product of blind mutation. The <em>de novo</em> creation of such complexity, they argue, would require far too many coordinated mutational changes before the new form provided any fitness benefit. Thus, evolution simply cannot explain such apparent leaps. Evolutionists, beginning with Darwin, and continuing today, have p...
