At 52, Jon Stewart has the bouncy energy of a man half his age and, unlike most in the public eye, has an aversion to compliments.Photograph: Jay Brooks for the Guardian T here was no one moment when Jon Stewart knew it was time for him to leave what he describes as “the most perfect job in the…

21-Apr-2015 (Tue) Wherein I ridicule Facebook some more, then collaborate with the Panopticon. In my last update , I busted on Facebook for their relentless -- yet halfassed and inconsistent -- morality policing. They had blocked a bunch of ads that Hubba Hubba Revue had purchased, claiming that the…

"Allow me to give you some background. "One of the original smart cards, entitled 'H' cards for Hughes, had design flaws which were discovered by the hacking community. These flaws enabled the extremely bright hacking community to reverse engineer their design, and to create smart card writers. The…

Photographer: John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images Photographer: John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images In 2004, Sun Microsystems revealed a radical plan to shake up the computing industry. It would build a series of large data centers and sell access to the computers inside them for $1 per hour. Sun was…

To the average video gamer, Pwn Adventure 2’ s bear challenge seems impossible. A horde of grizzly bears attacks you from all directions, and no matter how many bears you kill, more always seem to take their place. Even if you amass enough firepower to hold back the onslaught of claws, the dead…

WHEN ANA BARROS first stepped into Harvard Yard as a freshman, she felt so out of place she might as well have had the words “low income” written on her forehead. A girl from Newark doesn’t belong in a place like Harvard, she thought, as she marveled at how green the elms were, how quaint the…

The Giant Rats That Save Lives Nicholas Kristof follows a large rodent as it searches a minefield in northern Angola. MALANJE, Angola — I’M walking in a minefield here in rural Angola, tailing a monster rat. This is a Gambian pouched rat, a breed almost 3 feet from nose to tail, the kind of rat that…

“Oh my God, can you grab him?” I shouted at the woman at the door, as my 3-month-old puppy darted out into the cold and I tried to stop my 6-year-old twins from following suit. She obliged, and I was able to get a proper look at her. It was in the 30s outside, unseasonably cold for Florida, and the…

The one and only: Why do more and more of us now live alone? Photograph: detail from image in the forthcoming book Out My Window, by Gail Albert Halaban H uman societies, at all times and places, have organised themselves around the will to live with others, not alone. But not any more. During the…

Credit Illustration by Jon Han Despite decades of medical and cosmetic innovations, we haven’t quite yet reached Never-Never Land, where no one ever grows older. But we’re not that far away from a related place, Never-Lost Land, where no one and nothing gets lost. Thanks to G.P.S, Bluetooth, and the…

With more than 2,000 distinct languages, Africa has a third of the world's languages with less than a seventh of the world's population. By comparison, Europe, which has about an eighth of the world's population, has only about 300 languages. Africa's linguistic diversity can even be found among…

The judge’s argument in this case and others is that chimpanzees are intelligent, emotionally complex and self-aware enough to merit some basic human rights.Photograph: Martin Meissner/AP For the first time in US history, a judge has granted two chimpanzees a petition – through human attorneys – to…

What do you think are the odds that you will die during the next year? Try to put a number to it — 1 in 100? 1 in 10,000? Whatever it is, it will be twice as large 8 years from now. This startling fact was first noticed by the British actuary Benjamin Gompertz in 1825 and is now called the “Gompertz…

Welcome to Part I in a Series on Human Aging If you had to guess how you were going to die, you could narrow it down pretty quickly. It takes only a handful of diseases to account for over half of the deaths of Americans each year. Only five in fact – heart disease, cancer,… Continue reading →

Scientists have confirmed the cause of a strange humming noise that emanates from the Earth and has baffled people for more than forty years – and was even a factor in one reported suicide. The noise has been talked about worldwide and also made local newspaper headlines in the UK. It is often…

The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000. Of 28 examiners with the FBI…

I've got some bad news: You're going to die. Well, probably; thanks to the new wave of immortality innovation, you might not. So what happens if we ditch our biological bodies for technological ones that don't face the limitations of organic DNA and death? Technological evolution has the potential…

The opening credits disperse, revealing a city. What city? A future city. This is an SF film, and we may not yet know the rules of this speculative world—whether there are space colonies, or authoritarian governments, time travel, or amazing future weapons—but we are already getting a taste through…

Samuel Baron has downsized his property at the age of just 26. The urban studies student at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, has traded his 55.7sq metre (600sq foot) Edmonton apartment for a 23sq metre (248sq foot) micro-flat downtown. He was determined to live closer to Vancouver's…

Look at a primate or a Neanderthal skull and compare it with a modern human's. Notice anything missing? We have one feature that primates, Neanderthals, archaic humans -- any species, for that matter -- don't possess: a chin. advertisement "In some way, it seems trivial, but a reason why chins are…

Yangjiang, China Children in this small southern Chinese city sit and recite their vocabulary words in an experimental cube of a classroom built with translucent walls and ceilings. Sunlight lights up the room from all directions. The goal of this unusual learning space: to test whether natural,…

See also: This Is What Plutocracy Looks Like . A story at WaPo called This chart explains everything you need to know about inequality gives the following very interesting graphic: It plots the average income for the top 1% horizontally against the average income for the bottom 90% (vertically) in…

Charlyn Keating Apr 20, 2015 If you’re an app developer who isn’t making a decent living from the app stores, there’s someone you need to meet. His name is Mark Dawson. Amazon paid him $450,000 last year. He didn’t write a line of code. That’s because he’s a book author. Mark writes books about a…

Menagerie: Just between us species. How did it happen? How did I go from being a high school student who played in a rock band to a mad scientist conducting cruel animal experiments? To this day, I’m not sure. As a child, I liked animals. Growing up, I loved playing with our family dog. I wasn’t…

It was night-time as my British Airways jumbo jet neared London’s Heathrow airport and through the window I could see the ominous glint of car headlights on the M25 motorway beyond the runway far below. I say ominous because I had been upgraded on this flight, not to Business or First class but to…

(Reuters/Dado Ruvic) You probably don’t remember what you Googled 10 minutes ago, let alone the myriad inane and fleeting things you’ve searched since the engine’s beginnings. But unless you’re browsing in incognito mode or have tweaked your account settings, Google remembers those things. Not only…

The world-beating surge in Chinese technology stocks is making the heady days of the dot-com bubble look tame by comparison. The industry is leading gains in China’s $6.9 trillion stock market, sending valuations to an average 220 times reported profits, the most expensive level among global peers.…

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Consumers “want to pursue and achieve a purpose.” | Reuters/Cheryl Ravelo Everyone knows someone who collects things — whether it’s refrigerator magnets or political bumper stickers. But what marks the turning point at which someone goes from owning items to building a collection of them? Research…

Zhao Bowen is late for a Satanic heavy metal concert. After haggling the doorman down to half price, he pushes into a Beijing bar with a ceiling low enough to punch. He follows the shriek of guitars down a corridor and into a mosh pit lit by strobe lights. It’s hot as hell and looks like it too: Men…

For every 100 black women not in jail, there are only 83 black men. The remaining men – 1.5 million of them – are, in a sense, missing . Among cities with sizable black populations, the largest single gap is in Ferguson, Mo. North Charleston, S.C. , has a gap larger than 75 percent of cities. This…

A generation ago Ethiopia's Tigray province was stricken by a famine that shocked the world. Today, as Chris Haslam reports, local people are using ancient techniques to turn part of the desert green. In the pink-streaked twilight, a river of humanity is flowing across Tigray's dusty Hawzien plain.…

On Friday morning, Dave Buck, Kevin Ho, and Zach Mueller were standing in a gallery space in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, listing their favorite cardistry videos. Cardistry is an arcane but growing pastime in which (primarily) young men shuffle, riffle, twist and toss decks of cards through…

Dell Glover manufactured CDs for a living, but he began to wonder: if the MP3 was just as good, why bother with the CD? Photograph by Jehad Nga One Saturday in 1994, Bennie Lydell Glover, a temporary employee at the PolyGram compact-disk manufacturing plant in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, went to…

By Chris Baraniuk Not particularly deadly (Image: Carl Court/AFP/Getty) You will be exterminated! Or perhaps not, if a group of anti-killer robot campaigners get their way. This week, the United Nations’ Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) is once again hearing from technical and legal…

Flickr via nathangibbs Among a certain kind of food-futurist-nerd , it's accepted wisdom that crickets and grasshoppers might be the protein source of the next generation. There are 30— thirty! — startups in North America focused on commercializing crickets for food. Of course, people all over the…

Video How Dogs Bond With Us Domesticated dogs and humans have developed a feedback loop of love. By AAAS/Carla Schaffer on Publish Date April 16, 2015. Those big brown eyes gaze at you, deeply. Your heart leaps. You caress, murmuring sweet nothings. And as those big browns remain fixed on you, the…