‘Wannabe foreign fighters prepared for battle by reading copies of Islam for Dummies and The Koran for Dummies.’Photograph: Medyan Dairieh/Medyan Dairieh/ZUMA Press/Corbis F or at least a decade the issue of young Muslims becoming radicalised towards violent extremism has been one of concern for…

SimCity players have discussed a variety of creative strategies for their virtual homelessness problem. They've suggested waiting for natural disasters like tornadoes to blow the vagrants away, bulldozing parks where they congregate, or creating such a woefully insufficient city infrastructure that…

Op-Ed Contributor I Owe It All to Community College Credit Maëlle Doliveux IN 1974, I graduated from Skyline High School in Oakland, Calif., an underachieving student with lousy SAT scores. Allowed to send my results to three colleges, I chose M.I.T. and Villanova, knowing such fine schools would…

Michael Jan 13, 2015 A CT scan of a 3D Printed drone (courtesy: Voxel8) Written By Michael Sitver (Author of “ 3D Printing In Under 1000 Words ”) Section 1: The Drone Printer “ You can’t print an iPhone (yet) .” I wrote that in my e-book on 3D printing just six months ago. It was part of an entire…

Bridge-building is akin to an Olympic event in China. The Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, which cost $2.3 billion, is the world’s longest sea-crossing bridge. 1 / 7 DALIAN, China — The plan here seems far-fetched — a $36 billion tunnel that would run twice the length of the one under the English Channel, and…

Software that was first put to work writing news reports has now found another career option: drafting reports for financial giants and U.S. intelligence agencies. The writing software, called Quill, was developed by Narrative Science , a Chicago company set up in 2010 to commercialize technology…

I’m laughing. I’m laughing because I’m reading a paper about an aphid that’s occasionally a vampire—more on this later—and the caption for Figure 1 begins: “Simplified diagram of the biannual life cycle of P. Cimiciformis ”. And this is Figure 1: Credit: Salazar et al, 2015. Simplified, indeed. This…

Doctors told his parents he had the brain function of a three-month-old baby and to care for him until he died. Then one day he woke up, shocking everyone with his jaw-dropping tale. His journey is recounted in the incredible memoir, Ghost Boy and he sat down with America’s National Public Radio…

Costco is the largest wine retailer in the United States and I think it is worth thinking about the Costco model and what it has to say about the globalization of wine. Costco’s approach to selling wine is different from most other U.S. retailers, such as supermarket chains. Most supermarkets offer…

Awsard is located 170 miles from the nearest food market. A five minute walk, however, will take you to a massive Moroccan army base. Welcome to Awsard, a small village southeast of the Moroccan-governed part of Western Sahara. The closest drinking water well is 12 miles away. Add another 160 miles…

Story highlights In the United States, white-collar workers work longer than peers in most advanced countries Brigid Schulte: We need to recapture our lost leisure; more work doesn't raise productivity She says companies reward workers for how long they sit at their desks, not for what they do…

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"Charlie" is an ape-like robotic system that walks on four limbs, demonstrated here in March 2014 in Hanover, Germany. The robot could conceivably be used in the kind of rough terrain found on the moon, or it could be a stepping stone toward humanity's destruction. Getty Images We're decades away…

Cryptographers devote their careers to the science of securing your communications. Twenty-four-year-old Nadim Kobeissi has devoted his to the art of making that security as easy as possible. His software creations like Cryptocat and Minilock encrypt instant messages or shared files with…

It's my fault. Getty Images Tesla fell 6% in trading on Wednesday, closing at $193 a share. The stock dipped as low as $188 before recovering. The drop was signaled Tuesday when CEO Elon Musk told a group of journalists at the Detroit Auto Show that Tesla sales in China were disappointing in the…

Max Dickstein stands with other supporters of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged creator and operator of the Silk Road underground market, in front of a Manhattan federal court house on the first day of jury selection for Ulbricht's trial, on January 13, 2015. Spencer Platt/Getty Images For the past year,…

The code that secures Bitcoin could also power an alternate Internet. First, though, it has to work. Scott Rosenberg Jan 13, 2015 Unlisted There’s this hopelessly geeky new technology. It’s too hard to understand and use. How could it ever break the mass market? Yet developers are excited, venture…

We installed the top 10 apps from Download.com , and you’ll never believe what happened! Well… I guess maybe you might have a good guess. Awful things. Awful things are what happens. Join us for the fun! RELATED: The Freeware Download Sites That Don’t Force Crapware On You Update : Since the…

The Advance Guard Verizon has repeatedly claimed that utility rules would harm investment in broadband networks, urging the Federal Communications Commission to avoid imposing new regulations. Yet Verizon’s statements to the FCC have avoided mentioning that its own utility-style common carrier…

To drive through California's Central Valley is to witness farming on a baffling scale. For hundreds of miles along either side of Highway 99—which splits the valley from the college town of Chico in the north to the sprawling, boxy city of Bakersfield in the south—are orderly corridors of…

Several distinct neurons in a mouse retina that have been mapped by volunteers playing a game developed by Sebastian Seung. Credit Photo illustration by Danny Jones. Original images from EyeWire. In 2005, Sebastian Seung suffered the academic equivalent of an existential crisis. More than a decade…

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Each country has its own invasive species and rampant plants with a tendency to grow out of control. In most, the techniques for dealing with them are similar - a mixture of powerful chemicals and diggers. But in the US a new weapon has joined the armoury in recent years - the goat. In a field just…

I t was just before dawn when 18 police officers poured out of an armored truck and an unmarked white van at the Laurel Park apartment complex on the outskirts of Atlanta. A few days earlier, a confidential informant reported seeing “a brown skinned black male” with “a small quantity of a green…

4 Shares Email Chinese state media has reported the service module of test lunar orbiter has successfully began orbiting the Moon and the lunar mission will see the Chang’e 5 (Chinese: 嫦娥五号 ) spacecraft perform a soft landing on the surface of the Moon, where it will collect four pounds of rock and…

Pamela Shavaun Scott, with a 3D printed copy of her own skull. Her right index finger is indicating the location of the meningioma she had removed. The summer of 2013 found Michael Balzer in good health. A few years earlier, he’d struggled with a long illness that had cost him his job. As he…

‘What A Terrible World, What A Beautiful World’

Why the public option will not pass.

Back in the fall of 1999, Norman Conard, a history teacher at the Uniontown High School in Kansas, asked his students to come up with a project for National History Day. While brainstorming ideas, ninth-grader Elizabeth Cambers stumbled on an old clipping from US News and World Report . The story…

T he story of Andy Weir is a strange mix of fact and fiction. There’s the fairy tale success of his book, The Martian , which he self-published on his blog for free, intended for the few thousand fans he’d accumulated over years of hobby writing. Some of those fans wanted an electronic book version,…