C an a person who is biologically male really be female? What about someone who is born white but doesn’t feel that way—can she become black? Intelligent adults can disagree passionately on these questions of identity, as evident in the back-and-forth discussion over the recent cases of Caitlyn…

It’s not just paper. From the first notes issued by the Continental Congress to the latest star-spangled bills released by the Federal Reserve, the history of money in America is laced with rebellion, propaganda, and—of course—lots and lots of wealth. It’s awkwardly beautiful. The history of paper…

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Why independent music is going to explode in the next decade Adam Marx Nov 16, 2015 PC Gaming Is Just Like Independent Music Chris Dixon ’s article yesterday discussed the trends that media is experiencing in the digital age. While his article focuses mostly on the gaming industry, it also heavily…

T he Earth may not be flat, but the web certainly is. “There is no ‘top’ to the World-Wide Web,” declared a 1992 foundational document from the World Wide Web Consortium—meaning that there is no central server or organizational authority to determine what does or does not get published. It is, like…

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This summer, eye-watering smoke hung over much of the western United States, and flames threatened homes, towns, and even the giant sequoias of Kings Canyon National Park . By mid-November, wildfires had burned 9.8 million acres across the country, and 2015 was on track to become the biggest fire…

Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker Animation by Lisa Larson-Walker. Images by Maciej Noskowsk/Getty Images, courtesy of Footage Island. Every morning, like so many of her colleagues, a television writer would drive from her Hollywood apartment to the Culver City, California, lot of Sony…

I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 5000 series notebook (October 2015). Setting things up, I was surprised to see a trusted root certificate pre-installed on the machine labeled "eDellRoot". I'm having a tough time coming up with a good reason that Dell Computer Corporation needs to be a trusted…

A location on Mars associated with the best-selling novel and Hollywood movie “The Martian” is seen in an image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter taken May 17, 2015. This area is in the Acidalia Planitia region, and in the novel…

(Reuters/Kacper Pempel/Files) Since 2013, Americans have gained immense insight about how the government conducts digital spying programs, largely thanks to the revelations made by former security contractor Edward Snowden. But a new report shows it's really hard to keep track of all the ways the…

Credit Photograph by Wade Payne / AP NEW YORK ( The Borowitz Report )—There are growing fears among supporters of the Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump that his new focus on Muslims is distracting him from his campaign against Mexicans. After the billionaire said he would consider…

Republicans’ Lust for Gold It’s not too hard to understand why everyone seeking the Republican presidential nomination is proposing huge tax cuts for the rich. Just follow the money: Candidates in the G.O.P. primary draw the bulk of their financial support from a few dozen extremely wealthy families…

A year ago, the city of Manteca, California made it illegal to sleep or set up encampments outside. Another ordinance banned urination and defecation in public. At the time, the city’s police chief, Nick Obligacion, said the ordinance was to “correct the wrong” and “if the correction is [the…

CNN yesterday suspended its global affairs correspondent, Elise Labott, for two weeks for the crime of posting a tweet critical of the House vote to ban Syrian refugees . Whether by compulsion or choice, she then groveled in apology. This is the original tweet along with her subsequent expression of…

In 20 years, the Web might complete its shift from liberator to oppressor. It’s up to us to prevent that. Jennifer Stisa Granick Aug 17, 2015 Unlisted Earlier this month Jennifer Granick was the keynote speaker at Black Hat 2015 . This is a modified version of the speech she delivered. A video of…

Stream m3u In the late 1970s, a new language was born. And Ann Senghas , Associate Professor of Psychology at Barnard, has spent the last 30 years helping to decode it. In 1978, 50 deaf children entered a newly formed school--a school in which the teachers (who didn't sign) taught in Spanish. No one…

Cutting Water Use, but Still Getting Soaked 6 Photos View Slide Show › Monica Almeida/The New York Times APPLE VALLEY, Calif. — Outside her two-story tract home in this working-class town, Debbie Alberts, a part-time food service worker, has torn out most of the lawn. She has given up daily showers…

For nearly 20 years, the residents of this mostly African American Greensboro community had nowhere to shop for food. They tried to attract a big-box grocery store; when that didn’t work, they started their own.

My engagement with museums has been a game of three parts – so far – and in all three of them the question of children has been defining. In the first third, I was a child; in the second, I wasn’t; in the third, I’m a parent. My sense of what museums are, and are for, has changed accordingly.…

In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, some of us tried to raise questions of U.S. foreign policy. I got my mic cut on O’Reilly’s show . Others got far worse — a friend basically felt he had to move out of his neighborhood he was so reviled for criticizing the U.S.’s militarism. Oh, yeah, and…

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is launching an ad campaign with renewed focus on his economic policies. Television ads set to run in early-voting states come amid the campaign’s plan to destigmatize the Democratic presidential candidate’s status as a democratic socialist. “If you’re doing everything…

THE GENERAL LEADING the U.S. military’s hidden war in Africa says the continent is now home to nearly 50 terrorist organizations and “illicit groups” that threaten U.S. interests. And today, gunmen reportedly yelling “Allahu Akbar” stormed the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali’s capital and seized several…

Photograph by John Locher/AP DES MOINES ( The Borowitz Report )—In a major foreign-policy announcement on Wednesday, the Republican Presidential candidate Ben Carson unveiled a detailed plan to Google Syria. Speaking in Iowa, the retired neurosurgeon told an audience of supporters, “Any responsible…

Exclusive: Official Washington’s many false narratives about Russia and Syria have gotten so tangled that they have become a danger to the struggle against Sunni jihadist terrorism and conceivably a threat to the future of the planet, a risk that Robert Parry explores. By Robert Parry One way to…

There are few bigger — or harder — questions to tackle in science than the question of how life arose. We weren’t around when it happened, of course, and apart from the fact that life exists, there’s no evidence to suggest that life can come from anything besides prior life. Which presents a…

Photo Credit Getty Images Phys Ed Gretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness. Sturdy legs could mean healthy brains, according to a new study of British twins. As I frequently have written in this column, exercise may cause robust improvements in brain health and slow age-related declines in memory…

(Reuters) - Tesla Motors Inc ( TSLA.O ) is recalling all 90,000 Model S sedans produced to check for a possible defect in the front seat belt assemblies, the company said on Friday. The recall is worldwide. Most of the affected vehicles are in the United States, with some in Europe and Asia. Shares…

Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It Credit Kelly Blair Black Daesh, white Daesh. The former slits throats, kills, stones, cuts off hands, destroys humanity’s common heritage and despises archaeology, women and non-Muslims. The latter is better dressed and neater but does the same things. The…

Nuzzel , the content discovery service that collects and organizes links shared to Twitter and Facebook, is branching out with an update that will allow people to find stories related to their interests without having to connect to social networks. Now all they have to do is sign up for Nuzzel,…

Reuters They are a loose collective of hackers who once appeared to have no greater purpose than having some mischievous anarchic fun. But in recent times Anonymous has got serious. Earlier this month the collective targeted the Ku Klux Klan, publishing online a list of alleged sympathisers of the…

SINJAR, Iraq (Reuters) - The picnic tables on the mountainside overlooking the town of Sinjar are a vestige of a time when different communities lived side by side in this corner of northwestern Iraq. That was before Islamic State militants overran the area in August last year, purging its Yazidi…

Chile’s Communist Party Rejects Intervention in Venezuela Nigeria: Early Tally Shows Buhari in Lead, Opposition Rejects 86% Votes For New Constitution in Cuba US VP Pence Leads Lima Group, Pushes for More Severe Blockade Venezuela: EU Spurns Violent Intervention for Peaceful Solution Campaign…

According to the documents, which Reuters has reviewed, the company had a business relationship with Cheung Chi Tai, who U.S. authorities have identified as a leader of a Chinese organized crime ring, or triad. Cheung is awaiting trial in Hong Kong on charges of money laundering. In its complaint,…

Credit: Ben Woods /TNW Each time you install an app, you’re asked to accept the permissions it’s requesting to access the features on your phone. It’s a standard cost of entry for downloading pretty much any app, and particularly free ones. If you’re not paying with money, you’re paying with your…

The data are showing us that descendants undoubtedly bear the imprints of ancestral violence.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union countries plan a crackdown on virtual currencies and anonymous payments made online and via pre-paid cards in a bid to tackle terrorism financing after the Paris attacks, a draft document seen by Reuters said. EU interior and justice ministers will gather in…

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