Protecting whales from ship strikes
In the summer of 2022, I was walking on the beach at Half Moon Bay in California, when I saw the str...
David Pogue
Malcolm Gladwell's life has changed; he has not
On Tuesday, a new Malcolm Gladwell book comes out. And if history is any guide, it will be a bestsel...
How Mad Magazine's humor created a revolution
Nestled the rolling hills of rural Massachusetts. swathed by manicured grounds, sits the Norman Rock...
Reality check: How divided is America, really?
We hear all the time about how polarized we've become as a nation. When Pew Research asked Americans...
Reality check: What's up with the economy?
If you ask Americans which issues will most affect their votes this November, the number 1 response ...
Reality check: What we get wrong about crime
American worry about crime; the number of people who think the crime rate is going up hasn't been th...
The electric-plane future is about to take off
For years, you've been able to watch cool-looking electric-plane videos on YouTube, created by some ...
The ethical quandary facing the Supreme Court (and America)
This past week, the Supreme Court handed down a series of major opinions: on the powers of federal a...
The Wayback Machine, a time machine for the web
David Samuel plays viola in the San Francisco-based Alexander Quartet. But he almost didn't make it ...
Why does product design sometimes fail? It's complicated
Everywhere you look, things are getting more complicated. Our phones have over a thousand settings. ...
Ingenuity, NASA's "little 'copter that could" (and did!)
In 2020, NASA's Perseverance rover launched for Mars with a stowaway: a tiny drone, created by NASA'...
Cryptocurrency is making lots of noise, literally
Seven years ago, Gladys Anderson bought her dream home in Bono, Arkansas. "We moved out here to get ...
