Space Ripples Reveal Big Bang’s Smoking Gun Alan Guth was one of the first physicists to hypothesize the existence of inflation, which explains how the universe expanded so uniformly and so quickly in
Opinion Learning From Legos Credit... Giacomo Gambineri WHEN I was a boy, my father, an architect, attempted a no-toy policy, with the significant exception that he’d buy my brother and me almost anyt
Commercial reactors modelled on ITER could generate power with no carbon, virtually no pollution, and scant radioactive waste. Illustration by Jacob Escobedo Years from now—maybe in a decade, maybe so
Alec Baldwin, photographed by Steve Schofield. Photo: Steve Schofield/2013 Steve Schofield As told to Joe Hagan. I flew to Hawaii recently to shoot a film, fresh on the heels of being labeled a homoph
Opinion The Fat Drug Credit... Jing Wei IF you walk into a farm-supply store today, you’re likely to find a bag of antibiotic powder that claims to boost the growth of poultry and livestock. That’s be
The Youngest Technorati From left, Michael Hansen, Ryan Orbuch and William LeGate at the TEDxTeen event in SoHo this month. Michael and Ryan, both in high school, developed the procrastination-fightin
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On June 6, 2013, Washington Post reporters called the communications departments of Apple, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and other Internet companies. The day before, a report in the British newspaper The
Reuters Until the 1990s, Olympic figure skating included a segment called “compulsory figures,” in which athletes would slowly trace precise, intricate shapes into the ice, and judges would inspect th
Engineering managers -- as elusive as Bigfoot Everyone talks about how difficult it is to hire great software engineers in the Valley. And it is. But nobody’s talking about how hard — really hard — it
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
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Jason Edward Harrington is a writer and MFA candidate in the creative writing program at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. Follow him on Twitter @Jas0nHarringt0n .
Exciting news coming from WWDC for all HTML5 hybrid app developers, notably for Cordova and PhoneGap. Apple’s iOS 8 has a new browser engine called WKWebView. As the name implies, this is a real Webki
When my book Instructor Revolution was published, the most surprising feedback was NOT from martial art instructors but, rather, from teachers. Teachers who were frustrated dealing with parents year a
Published 25 February 2014 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images Much of what we think we know about the 1914-18 conflict is wrong, writes historian Dan Snow. No war in history attracts
Opinion What Drives Success? Credit... Ji Lee A SEEMINGLY un-American fact about America today is that for some groups, much more than others, upward mobility and the American dream are alive and well
Prototype Craft Beer, the (Very) Limited Edition The Hill Farmstead Brewery in Vermont is operated by Shaun Hill on the old site of his grandfather’s dairy farm. Mr. Hill has no plans for much expansi
Giulietta Carrelli outside the Trouble Coffee & Coconut Club. (Photo: Jeff Singer) All the guy was doing was slicing inch-thick pieces of bread, putting them in a toaster, and spreading stuff on them.
Paying Till It Hurts Patients’ Costs Skyrocket; Specialists’ Incomes Soar Dr. Brett Coldiron removes suspected cancerous skin cells from a patient during Mohs surgery at The Skin Cancer Center in Cinc
A Speck in the Sea John Aldridge on the deck of the Anna Mary. Credit... Daniel Shea for The New York Times Looking back, John Aldridge knew it was a stupid move. When you’re alone on the deck of a lo
An anecdote: I wanted to wear Google Glass during the birth of our second child. My wife was extremely unreceptive to this idea when I suggested it. Angry, even. But as we got a bit closer to the date
MOSCOW — The familiar voice on the hotel room phone did not waste words. “What time does your clock say, exactly?” he asked. He checked the reply against his watch and described a place to meet. “I’ll
I’ve been working on a nerd ethnography project with the GitHub API . There’s so much fun data to play with there that it’s inevitable that I’ll get a little distracted… One distraction was the realiz
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Nowadays, with any Web app you build, you have dozens of architectural decisions to make. And you want to make the right ones: You want to use technologies that allow for rapid development , constant iteration, maximal efficiency, speed, robustness and more. You want to be lean and you want to be…
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