In 1980, scientist and writer Isaac Asimov argued in an essay that “there is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been.

Trump and Brexit are responses to a political system that’s imploding. But could a radical redesign wrest it from the liars? Debased and de-based: that’s the condition of our political systems. Corrupted, they no longer fulfil their democratic potential.

Before the company's new Zen offerings, it's fair to say that AMD's last attempt at building a performance desktop processor was not tremendously successful. The Bulldozer core released in 2011 had a design that can, at best, be described as idiosyncratic.

I recently found myself facing a vending machine in a quiet corridor at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. I was due to speak at a conference called ‘Reinvent Money’ but, suffering from jetlag and exhaustion, I was on a search for Coca-Cola.

Seconda puntata di un’inchiesta in tre parti sulla grande distribuzione organizzata. Prima puntata. “Sei un pragmatico o un cacciatore?”. La domanda riecheggia per la sala conferenze. La grande stanza immersa nella luce artificiale del neon è affollata, quasi tutti uomini, età media sui 40.

Come funzionano i diritti dei film in Italia? Perché i film su iTunes appaiono, scompaiono e poi riappaiono? Vi raccontiamo la storia di un film in Italia, dalla sua uscita cinematografica.

If you've ever used an arithmetic mean, a Pearson correlation or a standard deviation to describe a dataset, I'm writing this for you. Better numbers exist to summarize location, association and spread: numbers that are easier to interpret and that don't act up with wonky data and outliers.

Come calcolare i valori attesi legati ad una raccolta di figurine

Math conferences don’t usually feature standing ovations, but Francis Su received one last month in Atlanta.

Across decades, the hunt for a dark matter particle has looked at many possible solutions—but so far, humanity hasn’t produced a clear answer.

What if every time your child cries or tantrums, they are actually doing something highly worthwhile? We don't always appreciate it when our children begin to cry, but what they are actually doing is making use of the body's innate recovery system.

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