The New York Times Co. has agreed to buy About.com from Primedia Inc. in an all-cash deal valued at about…
The pile of garbage included the equipment used by the children in the litter hunt: a dozen plastic bags and…
A pair of NASA scientists told a group of space officials at a private meeting here Sunday that they have…
We, the guests were already disgusted with the whole affair when Trimalchio, who, by the way, was beastly drunk, ordered…
Playing off the self-esteem theme, digital artist David Sullivan's contribution to the show is the Ego Machine, a project that…
--Name Voyager (The Baby Name Wizard) Very cool site, that illustrates the popularity of baby names over time, from 1900 to…
To prove his point that the commons is under attack, Bollier has filled Bullies with example after example of how…
More than two thousand years ago, the Roman poet Horace claimed that literature is "sweet" and "useful." Since then, literature…
Humans specialize in distraction, especially when the task at hand requires intellectual heavy lifting. All the usual "Is it lunchtime…
The "Third Bridge" is the nanotechnology and artificial intelligence revolution, which Kurzweil predicts will deliver the nanobots that work like…