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Using U.S. census data, creator Brian Lee Yung Rowe has developed an interactive map showing how names have grown and waned in popularity in different states since the early 1900s.

There have been five mass extinction events in Earth's history. In the worst one, 250 million years ago , 96 percent of marine species and 70 percent of land species died off. It took millions of year

Mozilla will soon sell ads within its Firefox browser, the company announced Tuesday. Wait, what? Mozilla made itself the villian of the online ad business early last year by announcing that the latest version of Firefox would block third-party ad technologies by default, a move the Interactive…

Over the last couple of weeks you may have been hearing about a new tool in the DDoS arsenal: NTP-based attacks. These have become popular recently and caused trouble for some gaming web sites and ser

This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. While city budgets are public information, getting access to them often requires marching into City Hall to make photocopies. And when public accounting does make it online,…

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Buried deep in the video database of the Internet Archive is footage of one of the first Winter Games — the third ever, which took place in Lake Placid, New York in 1932. The Olympics have changed since then; they're s afer, smarter, and lamer. View the differences here, in GIFs. The 1932 Games,…

NASA scientists have long followed a chanted a mantra about Mars: follow the water, follow the water. So, we sent a lander to the northern latitudes looking for extant ice. More recently, the Mars Cur

Two days before I landed in Maiduguri, security forces made a gruesome discovery in one of the city's suburbs. After a tip-off, soldiers carried out a dawn raid on ten squat buildings by the sluggish

Bookends Who Are James Joyce’s Modern Heirs? Each week in Bookends, two writers take on questions about the world of books. This week, Rivka Galchen and Pankaj Mishra discuss James Joyce’s legacy toda

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There's no better brunch than dim sum . There you sit on a lazy Saturday or Sunday around noon, surrounded by Chinese families at humongous round tables as carts glide by. Propelled by uniformed atten

Photograph by Violaine Lenoir When he was invited to judge a conference for aspiring entrepreneurs in Dubai in November 2010, Christopher Schroeder was admittedly skeptical. “I couldn’t get it through

Op-Ed Contributor What Makes Lagos a Model City WASHINGTON — Nigeria is arguably the worst run of the world’s seven most populated countries. Despite earning hundreds of billions of dollars in oil rev

It's well known that therapy animals can have positive effects on people, but there's been little research into how daily interaction with animals affects humans. According to a recent study in Applie

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“ Confronting a Sexual Rite of Passage in Malawi ”, published by The Atlantic last Monday, is misleading and continues a long tradition of ethnocentric, sensationalist reporting on Africa. The article tells the tale of a 14-year-old girl, Grace Mwase, of Chiradzulu District in Malawi, saying that…

The South Korean Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning has banned the common practice of mobile manufacturers and networks putting un-removable apps on smartphones. Telcos will now be required to make all pre-installed apps deletable, except for those that enable Wi-Fi connectivity,…

On March 28, 2011, a man who calls himself Kurt J. Mac loaded a new game of Minecraft. As the landscape filled in around his character, Mac surveyed the blocky, pixellated trees, the cloud-draped moun

When President Barack Obama delivers his sixth State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday, he is expected to address ways of combatting economic inequality, as well as reforming immigration and

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Take the textbook scenario on early animal evolution. It essentially goes as follows: Single-celled organisms gained the ability to adhere to and communicate with one another more than 600 million years ago, and from the resulting colonies, the first multicellular animals emerged. Today’s sponges,…

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To those who would argue that the notion of a perpetual motion machine is impossible, we give you the revolving door — that ever-spinning entrance and exit between public service in government and the

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Pro-Morsi supporters in Cairo yesterday. Photos courtesy of Tom Dale and Max Siegelbaum. Yesterday, Egypt saw the culmination of the Tamarod Campaign, a massive petition calling for the impeachment of

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President Obama was in San Jose on Friday to talk about the Affordable Care Act. But he took the opportunity to try to calm the furor over new revelations that his administration is presiding over unp

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