The reach and range of Neil Sloane’s Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences sends one down a cascading index encompassing the natural sciences, physical sciences, earth and space, logic and math, applied sciences and technology, social sciences, business and finance, and beyond
Observers assigned to help make sure Hawaii’s fishing fleets follow the rules face the same dangers as fishing crews — and sometimes dangers from those they observe.
For almost twenty years, Greg Torti has lived the life of a convicted sex offender: monitored by the authorities, unable to go near schools or parks, forced to make his home on the outskirts of a tiny town. It’s exactly the kind of miserable life a pervert deserves, he would tell you — if he were one.
Dorsey tweeted Thursday that he’s giving roughly one third of his Twitter stock back to the employee equity pool, meaning it can be dispersed throughout the company to employees.
“Cracka,” the alleged teenage hacker who claims responsibility for hacking CIA director John Brennan's AOL account, is still alive. But he doesn’t want you to know that.
A draft United Nations briefing paper expressing support for the decriminalization of personal possession of drugs was leaked Monday by Virgin Airlines founder Sir Richard Branson, a drug reform advocate. Does this suggest an end to the war on drugs and locking up users?
There are many types of games criticism. Some focus on the mechanics, others the art and technical proficiency, and others — like Sarkeesian's here — examine the game under the lens of gender. It's definitely worth a watch — as Sarkeesian explains how a game can successfully portray a female lead character without resorting to tired, sexist tropes.
Due to the fact that they can’t move and as such can’t sneak up on you, many people never really think of trees as being dangerous. As it turns out though, beyond the occasional tree that kills a person by falling on them, there’s also a tree out there so deadly it has been dubbed “The Murder Tree.”
One night in 2012, Robert Bales gunned down 16 men, women, and children in their homes in rural Afghanistan. It was the most notorious American wartime atrocity in decades, a tragedy about which he has never spoken. Until now.
In this film the Morbid Anatomy Museum explore Brandon Hodge's collection of Planchettes and other devices used to communicate with the spirit world. His 'home museum' is the most expansive collections of Planchettes on the planet.
So if we could build a new subway line in four years back in the early 1900s, why is NYC's Second Avenue line taking so long? Why are we still using so much infrastructure that's more than 100 years old? What has changed in the last hundred or so years for the subway?
A pair of talented stonemasons with a murderous feud gave Toronto’s oldest university its hauntingly intricate architecture— and its first grisly ghost story. A century and a half later, late-night janitors report an abundance of eerie encounters.
They’ve been given many labels: gutter punks, crusties, street kids. In New York, their base is the East Village, that long-time hub for young people on the fringes; when the weather grows cold, many will hitchhike or “hop freight” to warmer cities in the South or out West.
What "Fargo" nails is Midwestern Nice, the idiosyncrasies of a steadfast populace that appear banal and maybe even bovine to the uninitiated, but in truth constitute the most sincere, malicious, enriching, and suffocating set of behaviors found in the English-speaking world.
Need an easy way to keep your devices charged anywhere? The ZeroLemon SolarJuice Battery is a portable charger that you can fill up using solar energy! Take your charge with you.
One grand old house overlooking the Sunset Strip played host to a generation of comics, launching dozens of careers and about as many drug problems. The crash pad of a comedy revolution, remembered, kinda, by the people who survived it. Join us for a Dialog with the author of this piece tomorrow at 12pm EST.
If you’re an adult who has smoked marijuana in the past year, you’re one of about 30 million Americans who has done so, according to a new survey by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
US Republican congressman Paul Ryan formally announced his candidacy for speaker of the House of Representatives on Thursday after he nailed down crucial endorsements from Republican factions.
“Content” has become a specific genre of content. The content of “content” is assumed to be negligible, irrelevant, a pretense. Content on the internet is pure form. We are scandalized by its lack of meaning.
Snapchat currently has over 100 million daily users. It's valued at $16 billion. And back when it first exploded onto the scene, it took a long time for people to actually take it seriously.
Everything about “Ice Ice Baby” was kind of a mess. The beats were stolen, the rapping was bad, and the references were weirdly specific and not universal. And somehow this song still gets played at events and weddings.
Have they seen the movie? Because she dies. She dies, like, 10 minutes in. It's really, really, really sad. Why would you do this? This should be cute but they had to pick a song from "Up" and now it's sad and not cute.
Shane Smith told CNBC that Vice was in a strong position to move into TV, because even as the cost of networks decline, 75 percent of ad revenue is still in television.
People self-deprecate by belittling, undervaluing, or disparaging themselves as a means of social signaling or tension release. Excess or false modesty has made many a comedy routine, but how does it measure up as an interpersonal strategy?
Wikipedia’s projections continue well beyond the year 2525 (if man is still alive). Below are are some edited highlights from the web’s premier collaborative soothsaying resource. Welcome to the future.
A treatment that can actually control schizophrenia; a controversial case of cerebral palsy and sexual abuse; and one student's epic, harrowing journey out of Syria and through Europe.
Evan Cohen has been working on this smart mirror for almost two months now — so far it gives you the date, time and weather, and it can pull up maps, give you reminders, and control the lights in the room.
The new experiment is the strongest evidence yet to support the most fundamental claims of the theory of quantum mechanics about the existence of an odd world formed by a fabric of subatomic particles, where matter does not take form until it is observed and time runs backward as well as forward.
A new species of Galapagos tortoise has been discovered that was hiding in plain site. The species is now one of 250 knowns groups of animals found to be genetically distinct from their island neighbors.