For years – nay, for decades – net activists and freedom-of-speech activists have been fighting against the copyright industry’s corrupt initiatives. In country after country, the copyright industry was practically calling out for mail-order legislation, and receiving it every time. The collateral…

Aeroplanes existed in India 7,000 years ago and they travelled from one country to another and from one planet to another, the Indian Science Congress was told today in a controversial lecture that examined ancient aviation technology in the Vedas. The hosting of the lecture, presented by Captain…

The church of Sourp Giragos, in old Diyarbakir, fell into ruins after 1915. A few years ago, the town rebuilt it. “Our grandparents,” the mayor said, “committed wrongs, but we, their grandchildren, will not repeat them.” Credit Photographs by Pari Dukovic I. RESURRECTION When I try to imagine my…

Pronounce the word artist , to conjure up the image of a solitary genius. A sacred aura still attaches to the word, a sense of one in contact with the numinous. “He’s an artist ,” we’ll say in tones of reverence about an actor or musician or director. “A true artist,” we’ll solemnly proclaim our…

In Austen Heinz’s vision of the future, customers tinker with the genetic codes of plants and animals and even design new creatures on a computer. Then his startup, Cambrian Genomics, prints that DNA quickly, accurately and cheaply. “Anyone in the world that has a few dollars can make a creature,…

Editorial Brazen Attempts by Hotels to Block Wi-Fi Some large hotel chains want to block guests from using their own wireless Internet devices. It’s a blatant attempt to limit customer choice, and the Federal Communications Commission should say no. Marriott International and the American Hotel and…

IN THE 50 years between the end of the American civil war in 1865 and the outbreak of the first world war in 1914, a group of entrepreneurs spearheaded America’s transformation from an agricultural into an industrial society, built gigantic business empires and amassed huge fortunes. In 1848 John J.…

The Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery have an amazing gift for the world in 2015: a newly available collection of 40,000 digitized Asian and American artworks. The Smithsonian says its vast collection has mostly never been seen by the public, and the institution is…

Newspaper articles going back to the 1850s describe (and deride) them: Poor Italian immigrants who eked out a leaving cranking a hand organ on the street. The organ grinder’s partner: a regally outfitted capuchin monkey who charmed crowds of onlookers, especially children, while tethered to a string…

Megan J. Smith, the White House chief technology officer, at a meeting in November. After studying engineering at M.I.T. and working at Apple and Google, she is trying to address the Obama administration’s technology problems. Credit Stephen Crowley/The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Obama’s…

Welcome to the Revenge of '90s Internet The '90s are back. They’re back in fashion, they’re back in music, and they are most certainly back in technology. In a way this makes sense; the top end of the Millennial generation was just entering high school in the '90s, and now they’re in the workplace…

Mealtime at the in St Marylebone workhouse, London, in about 1900. Photograph: Cassell There will probably be people sleeping rough tonight on the same benches, along the Embankment in London , where William Booth interviewed homeless men in 1890. The story of Booth’s Salvation Army hostels will…

Armed bandidos stand guard in Vila Aliança.Photograph: Jo Griffin “Yeah, I want to get out,” says Ricardo, 21. Then, relaxing, he takes the hand-grenade he has been toying with on his lap and places it amid the beer bottles on the table. In Vila Aliança in Bangu, western Rio, this is not…

T he journey began in spring 2010, just as the sea ice surrounding the North Pole began its annual melt. Two bowhead whales, 50-foot-long behemoths that scour the Arctic seas for plankton, each started from their homes on opposite sides of North America—one in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, the…

Continue Reading Elana Pritchard One of the most difficult parts about jail is traveling to and from court. It’s a long, arduous day that begins at 4 a.m. and often doesn’t end until after midnight. After a bus ride spent in chains, you spend most of your time in a variety of holding cells with five…

Most people misunderstand what aging is. It’s not just the public who have been deceived — Most scientists and medical researchers who study aging are on the wrong track. The culprit is the “natural medicine” movement that has dominated thinking about our bodies for the last 50 years. “Respect the…

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“He created a greenhouse environment, a skunkworks, where we could do anything, try anything. When you’re an oddball in a permissive environment, things often turn out well.” -- Paul Hanson, ex-technical director at 3M, on Scotch tape inventor, Richard Drew On a surface level, Scotch tape may seem…

Scientists have come up with the likely possibility of how Ebola's first victim — Patient Zero — contracted the deadly disease that has ravaged parts of West Africa. Patient Zero, who has since been identified as two-year-old Guinean Emile Ouamouno , may have been infected while hunting or playing…

Gallery: The Big Cities Where Self-Employment Is Growing The Fastest 13 images View gallery Editor's Note: This post is part of a new special section called " Reinventing America ." As part of this effort, demographer Joel Kotkin and more than a dozen other Forbes contributors and staff writers will…

When Carly Guthrie was running HR for Per Se, one of the hottest restaurants in New York, the general manager gave her a piece of advice: “You know, Carly,” he said. “If we’re doing our job as leaders, a performance review should only be two columns: Column A is what you do great and Column B is…

The Interview is out now in theaters and streaming on YouTube (and elsewhere). There have now been a cross-section of experts in entertainment, celebrity lifestyle, foreign policy, and Internet security that have all weighed-in with their analysis and opinions on the how, the why and the ultimate…

I’ve been working on a couple of related posts around these topics for a while now, and delays and timing have led me to realize they’d actually make a good end-of-year summary of what was an amazingly turbulent time in my life, with loss, illness, and anxiety, all of which led to some personal and…

Screenshot from The Complete History of You A friend recently told me that his favorite thing about the show Black Mirror is that he finally has a term for a certain type of technological anxiety. It’s a type of anxiety that seemed everywhere this year. The Sony hack could have been an episode of…

Maotanchang: Study City 14 Photos View Slide Show › Sim Chi Yin/VII, for The New York Times The main street of Maotanchang, a secluded town in the furrowed hills of eastern China’s Anhui province, was nearly deserted. A man dozed on a motorized rickshaw, while two old women with hoes shuffled toward…

If you don’t follow NSA news obsessively, you might have missed yesterday’s massive Snowden document dump from Der Spiegel. The documents provide a great deal of insight into how the NSA breaks our cryptographic systems. I was very lightly involved in looking at some of this material, so I’m glad to…

H ere’s a riddle. We’ve never seen any, and we don’t know if they exist, but we think about them, debate them, and shout at each other about them. What are they? Aliens, of course. A while ago I wrote a piece for Nautilus on what might happen to us after learning about the existence of…

Librarian Abdel Haidara in his home in Timbuktu in 2009 with some of the manuscripts before they were taken to safety. Photograph: Brent Stirton/Getty Images Thomas Gruner didn’t know Timbuktu was a real town when it was drawn to his attention by the hacker community. They had seen a campaign on the…

(Reuters Health) - More than 1.5 million Americans avoided death from cancer since 1991 thanks to falling smoking rates and better cancer prevention, detection and treatments, according to a study from the American Cancer Society. The overall rate of deaths from cancer decreased from about 215 per…

IN 2013 the number of people killed in road accidents in Sweden was 264, a record low. Although the number of cars in use in the country and the number of miles driven have both doubled since 1970, the number of road deaths has fallen by four-fifths over the same period. Sweden’s roads have become…

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Neftali/Shutterstock.com A woman walks in to the room. She is wearing a white dress and has a mole over her bright red lips. She could be anybody, but you might have instantly guessed she was Marilyn Monroe. For every famous person, there is a handful of traits that we use to recognize them.…

I was in Amish country last week. Several times a day I heard the clip-clop of horse hooves and the whirring of buggy wheels coming down the street and then receding into the distance–a rather soothing Doppler effect. While there, I was reminded of an anecdote about the Amish relayed by a reader in…

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A tunnel inside Bergkristall Underground Plant in Austria. (Rudolf A. Haunschmied​/Gusen.org) An Austrian filmmaker believes he has discovered a huge Nazi “secret weapons facility” in an underground complex near the remains of the Mathausen-Gusen concentration camp in Austria, where thousands of…