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Amazon's 2010 and 1997 annual letters to shareholders.

Education: The PhD factory From nature.com

This article by Philip Greenspun is about anyone in science (not just women), and suggests that it is a tougher road than even those who ch...

"When I'm trying to impress Alice, for instance, I remind her that I have resolutely ignored drinking fashions for twenty-five year...

An interesting thought experiment, or possibly a provocative class exercise: A stack of card was shuffled face down on a table, and each per...

The projects supported by Kickstarter are getting better and better.

2011/03 Mike Monteiro | F*ck You. Pay Me. from SanFrancisco/CreativeMornings on Vimeo .

Walking through the German Expressionism exhibit really messed me up. All of them either killed themselves or fell down the stairs drunk to ...

We have a family that is spending $38,200 per year. The family’s income is $21,700 per year. The family adds $16,500 in credit card debt eve...

America has made the mistake of letting the A student run things. It was A students who briefly took over the business world during the peri...

Joel Housman: "Remember when Planned Parenthood & NPR crashed the market, wiped out half our 401Ks and took TARP money? Me neither...

It seems important any time scientists solve a question posed by philosophers hundreds of years ago. Imagine, William Molyneux wrote to the ...

"Starting in July, every episode from every Star Trek series will be available for Instant Watch over Netflix, Ds9 in October." f...

So I propose a simple test to determine if you, individually, are a victim of gender unfairness. If a genie gave you the chance to magically...

"After some time staring at and puzzling over this image, I convinced myself that this mechanism is indeed possible and that with right...

For someone on the maker's schedule, having a meeting is like throwing an exception. It doesn't merely cause you to switch from one ...

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”. – Lenin From the Long Now Foundation

I'd be happy even if he weren't such a good guy, which he is.

A whiny but fairly comprehensive set of observations about pressures that have contributed to a decline in the standards to which most stude...