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How many voters will pick Mickey Mouse?
As the World Wide Web turns 30, a look back at its early skeptics
In theory, anything can happen in EVE Online, but some things are considered impossible. Well, last month, one of the “impossible” things happened: The destruction of the game’s first-ever Keepstar battlestation, which was kept in a wormhole. Of course, it took 11 months of meticulous planning.
For centuries, curiosity about the mystical and biological functions of blood has fuelled both dangerous misunderstandings and revolutionary discoveries.
The Fermi Paradox: There should be 100,000 intelligent alien civilizations in our galaxy — so why haven’t we found any of them?
After a hospital error, two pairs of Colombian identical twins were raised as two pairs of fraternal twins. This is the story of how they found one another — and of what happened next.
Survey maps global variations in ethics for programming autonomous vehicles.
The Hirshhorn Museum’s purchase of a piece by Tino Sehgal reveals a different kind of acquisition process.
Every hardcore band you loved in the ’80s and beyond, from Black Flag to Minutemen to Fugazi, had one unfortunate thing in common: Nazi skinheads occasionally stormed their concerts, stomped their fans, gave Hitler salutes in lieu of applauding, and generally turned a communal experience into one full of hatred and conflict.
Tracing a mysterious message across the world to understand how what we buy is made.
You’re not a creep, though you are a thief. You’re also a human.
It needs to be helpless, robust, and appropriately timed.
People are saying I am the queen of Sweden because of the legend of King Arthur
Architectural historian Beatriz Colomina wants to know what people get up to in bed – it will affect the way we design cities in the future, she says.
Renowned illustrator Mirko Ilić says that logo designers should raise awareness about such hateful marks.