Oprah Winfrey’s Controversial Book Club Pick, AMERICAN DIRT, Casts a Long Shadow
On Tuesday, January 21, Oprah announced that her next book club pick would be none other than the highly anticipated and highly controversial American Dirt by...
Why I Went Birdwatching at a Particle Physics Lab
We drove past the perfect-circle frozen pond delineating the Booster—the second in a sequence of Fermilab’s particle accelerators—and then onto the 2-mile ring road that traces...
6 Signs You Can’t Handle a Long-Distance Relationship
If you’re in a long-distance relationship, you don’t need us to tell you it’s tough work. Yes—work is exactly what it is. And not everybody is cut...
An Open Source eReader That’s Free of Corporate Restrictions Is Exactly What I Want Right Now
I get it. The Kindle and its ability to shop for and instantly buy books anywhere using wifi or Whispernet are incredibly convenient, and it’s what’s...
The Trump Administration Just Gutted Clean Water Protections
The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers just removed federal protections for hundreds of thousands of small waterways and many of...
Please stop what you’re doing and listen to this ancient mummy’s voice
Humanity is the most technologically advanced it’s ever been. The scientific achievements we have made in the last hundred years are unparalleled, from landing on the...
Explosions, Crashes, and Shocks: E-Skaters Are Building a New Culture of Skateboarding
It’s impossible to go a day here in San Francisco without hearing the words ‘tech’ and ‘gentrification’ in the same sentence. And with the tension compounded...
Can’t afford a Peloton? This Flywheel bike is 41% off on Amazon.
TL;DR: The Flywheel home exercise bike is a solid Peloton alternative, and right now you can order one through Amazon for just $999 (down $700 from...
Satellite to Go Boom
DirecTV is rushing to move one of its satellites to a higher orbit due to the likelihood it will go boom, pow, kablam, rattle-rattle-bang, Space News...
Engineer Builds a Fully Functional Flying Drone Using Almost Nothing But Legos
Some of the most impressive custom Lego creations are models that actually do something, like AI-powered brick sorters, a life-size drivable go-kart, and even a machine...
