Why I Love the Electoral College By: Garett Jones Categories: Public Choice Theory By Garett Jones, Oct 20 2012 SHARE POST: There’s some evidence that democracy itself makes people happier, but largel

An artist visits the world's premier quantum mechanics labs. Beauty ensues. "Momentum," displayed at the Wilmotte Gallery in London (Alejandro Guijarro) Blackboards, the legend goes , were invented by

Earlier this year, through a series of events that involved a predawn drive deep into the Mojave Desert, I came into a windfall of Mid-Century Modern furniture. I loaded up a U-Haul trailer with what I considered to be high-quality designs: a Danish Modern dining set; a long, teak credenza; and, the…

Amir D. Aczel writes often about physics and cosmology. His book about the discovery of the Higgs boson, Present at the Creation: Discovering the Higgs Boson, is published in paperback by Broadway Books in November 2012. If somebody told you that there are angels floating in space, observing our…

How Romney Would Treat Women IN this year’s campaign furor over a supposed “war on women,” involving birth control and abortion, the assumption is that the audience worrying about these issues is just

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I can't express how badly I want to fly Air New Zealand. http://t.co/jBMr2SF3

A Different Perspective A week ago, I sat in an auditorium and listened to Steve Sinofsky talk about the tablet market. He talked about how the iPad was a great device, and a logical extension of the

The world divides into people who think of Apple as a company, and people who think of Apple as a brand. The former group includes all stock analysts , of course, but it also includes most technology journalists. The latter group is, well, most of the people who buy Apple products. The difference…

Media inquiries and licensing please email thedeathdelusion@gmail.com Comparison with the original: http://youtu.be/pjeHZ9poew4 Making of: http://youtu.be/jpjkaxeMGak I made this video for fun and for

Noah was finally asleep. Sitting in the center seat, my wife was holding our 7-month-old son as he slept on her shoulder. The three of us were flying back home from a week in Colorado, and Noah had sp

The development team of Tapbots has slowly gained a reputation for crafting polished and clever apps with a unique robotic theme. The pair behind the company include programmer Paul Haddad and designer Mark Jardine. Haddad and Jardine began working together at the Oakley web group, where Haddad got…

New Planet in Neighborhood, Astronomically Speaking An artist’s rendering of a planet astronomers have found in Alpha Centauri, a star system that is the Sun’s closest neighbor. Credit... L. Calcada/E

Subsequent very careful study of this data by independent groups has strongly suggested that the planet around Alpha Centauri B reported here probably does not exist. The signal appears to be a very s

Leave the punch clock alone. You don't get paid by the hour. (Image credit: Wikipedia) The astronomical community is all a-flutter, a-twitter, and many other bird-related analogies besides. What has p

My very personal review of @marcoarment’s new app, The Magazine: http://t.co/5PhhAc1F

Let’s talk about Steve Jobs. I know, I know. It's been a year since his death. What is there possibly left to say about him, and why are so many people still saying it? There will be scores of stories

Something very, very interesting is happening with Voyager 1 , the human probe that’s the very farthest from Earth. New data from the spacecraft, which I will discuss below, indicate Voyager 1 may hav

Personal Journeys With This View, Who Needs Legroom? The aisle may afford some room to wiggle, but the window seat gives you the world. Credit... Mark R. Jones WINDOW seat or aisle? Ever since I was a

Doug Mills/The New York Times President Obama responded to a question from Jim Lehrer during the first presidential debate on Thursday in Denver. All the post-game punditry aside, President Obama didn

The poet Maya Angelou once said you can tell a lot about a person from the way they respond to three things: a rainy day, tangled Christmas lights, and lost luggage . Maya, Maya. Where were you at 2 a

Counter-clockwise from the left, Steve Jobs, Jonathan Ive, Tim Cook, a Foxconn worker, the iPhone 5. Aurich Lawson In August 2011, Apple underwent a major corporate change as CEO Steve Jobs stepped do

Today, App.net gets its best iOS third-party client to date, and, unsurprisingly, it comes from Tapbots. Netbot is now available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad . What’s not surprising isn’t simp

EVERYWHERE IN SPACE-TIME SIMULTANEOUSLY—Attempting to appeal to the widest possible demographic base as Election Day draws near, President Obama made a surprise campaign stop Monday to visit an infini

What happens once iPhone and iPad users update to iOS 6 and try the Maps app? Do they stick with it, or do they decide - in line with chief executive Tim Cook's "extremely sorry" letter on Apple's sit

Q: What would happen if a beloved web comic created a series of ... physics explainers? Randall Munroe began his career in physics working with robots at NASA's Langley Research Center. He is famous,

This post has been updated several times (last update was on Feb.8, 2013); be sure to scroll to the end. Also see my final follow-up in 2014 . One central feature of any connector/plug is the pincount. The ubiquitous AC plugs we all know from an early age have 2 (or, more usually, 3) easily visible…

"In your twenties, when you knew everything, endings were easy because there were still so many beginnings." http://t.co/QB2eqOuG

By Ben Johnson. The first in our series of blog posts by members of the Raizlabs team of developers, designers and product managers on various aspects of the world of mobile development. Animations can make a world of difference in the user experience of a mobile app. Most of the time, we don’t even…

The College Rankings Racket The U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings came out earlier this month and — knock me over with a feather! — Harvard and Princeton were tied for first. Followed

Media Platforms Design Team When you arrive at night in Fort McMurray, the little Canadian town that might just destroy the world, the tiny airport looks smaller because of the snow and all the Explor