Writing

The earth is a shared inheritance, and profiting off a common resource is just wrong.

Though coffee shops and libraries can be great places to gather, some people are working alongside friends in their personal spaces instead.

And it’s free.

According to crossword masters.

cryptic crosswords are infuriating; you should try them, you’ll love them

By thinking like an economist, you could do twice as much work in half the time. Sort of

The current system penalises students who stretch themselves. What will it take to make it fairer?

Gelato is not just another name for ice cream: the real stuff is lower in fat and tastes and behaves rather differently. Uri Bram discovers what goes into making perfect gelati – and why they are rarely found in the supermarket

Once a rite of passage, driving lessons seem a pointless expense, thanks to ride-sharing services and the dawn of driverless cars

Too much unwanted attention turns female users off online dating. Economics provides a solution

The 1980s at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory seemed to outsiders like a golden age, but inside, David Chapman could already see that winter was coming. As a member of the lab, Chapman was the first researcher to apply the mathematics of computational complexity theory to robot planning and to show mathematically […]

A few times each year, a particular chain letter pops up in my inbox. “We’re starting a collective, constructive, and hopefully uplifting exchange,” it starts, exhorting me to send a “favorite text / verse / meditation” to a previous participant in the chain, and to forward the message to another 20 friends. In my personal […]

Scientists identify the brain circuits with which newly hatched nematodes form and retrieve a lifelong aversive olfactory memory.

Hint: There’s nothing wrong with Africa’s internet connections.

When I was a teenager I read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time. Instead of taking this beautiful book as a path to something useful, like a career in

Until I tried being a bot, I don’t think I gave my brain enough credit.

Abstract. DNA tests and disease risk – what do the numbers mean? Using probability lessons to beat problem gambling. Missing crimes in English police records. A

The rest of us would rather keep our jobs.