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Bill Geerhart had a little too much time on his hands and a surfeit of stamps. So, he launched a letter-writing campaign to some of the most powerful and infamous figures in the country, posing as a curious 10-year-old named more...

“Is there any way to have a community that can aggregate stories interesting to their users, and one that doesn’t encourage group think and trolling? Is it possible to create a destination that encourages different opinions even those not mainstream, more...

“It looks like a single being. But it's a society of former individualists...the slime mold.”

“All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments. No other features (such as outlines or geographic features) have been added to this image, however they emerge as roads avoid mountains, more...

“The Forer effect refers to the tendency of people to rate sets of statements as highly accurate for them personally even though the statements could apply to many people.”

“If the US dollar had remained strong in the global economy, oil might, in theory, be around $65 per barrel. However, oil is priced in dollars, and oil prices continue to rise.”

...the cost of U.S. patent litigation to alleged infringers ($12 billion in legal and business costs in 1999) is greater than the global profits that companies earn from patents (less than $4 billion in 1999). Since the 1980s, patent litigation more...

Boston Dynamics keeps working on their BigDog quadruped robot, which will probably grow to be the future AT-AT of the Pentagon. See it climb through rubble, snow, jump over obstacles like a wild goat, and save a near-fall on iced more...

“The cartograms below show the world through the eyes of editors-in-chief, in 2007. Countries swell as they receive more media attention; others shrink as we forget them[1].”

Google launched translation bots for a lot of language pairs, even more than the ones available at Google Translate. To use them in Google Talk or in any other IM client that supports Jabber, you need to add one of more...

Some things never change...