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After taking tens of millions of dollars in losses over the past two years, The Washington Post Company has put Newsweek up for sale which, along with Time, once defined […]
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The journalist and his friends founded the first fantasy baseball league—a development that nurtured the explosion of statistical analysis in sports.
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“The best advice I’ve ever had as a writer was, hope that your research disproves your preconceptions. And push further so that you can get there.”
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Since he’s left the paper, Okrent continues to come across things that irritate him about coverage. But it’s no longer his job to be the paper’s cop, so he lets […]
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There will always be plagiarists and reporters who didn’t make the phone call they claimed to have made. But an ombudsman can make the difference in preventing chronic lapses of […]
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Readers of the “paper of record” took issue with perceived bias in everything from headlines to photo captions. But they were most concerned about the use of anonymous sources.
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While Prohibition was certainly about drinking, it was also a stand-in issue in the battle among various groups over control of the country.
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A conversation with the journalist and former New York Times public editor.
How designers are revolutionizing product packaging, one of consumerism's most toxic and wasteful byproducts, by using smart engineering and innovative materials to dramatically lighten its carbon footprint.
"When people wash their hands immediately after making a decision, they are less likely to rationalize its merits—possibly making them less content with the decision."
Northrop Grumman is testing a high-powered, lightweight laser that can be used by U.S. soldiers in combat settings. Use of lasers on the battlefield could change warfare significantly.
By creating the first theoretical model of a wormhole 75 years ago, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen allowed science-fiction writers to consider the idea of time travel, writes Dave Goldberg.
Scientists have found that the brains of problem gamblers react more intensely to "near misses" than those of casual gamblers—possibly spurring them on to play more.
A German animal biologist Silvia Gaus says we should be killing the oil-soaked birds in the Gulf of Mexico. Doing so would be less painful in the long run than trying to clean them, she says.
If computerized trading is found to have accelerated yesterday's trading carnage on Wall Street, it may spark demand for tighter regulation of high-speed trading.
Abou Farman writes about the art of the "Persian dub" in movies of the 1970's where Western movies would get creative embellishments in dubbed translation.
Scientists have sequenced the Neanderthal genome, discovering it to be practically identical to that of humans. In fact, most humans can probably trace some of their DNA to Neanderthals.
Denialism about the nature of the AIDS virus is estimated to have killed many thousands of people. Should scientists should be held accountable?
Bruce Usher writes that China is thus far ahead of the U.S. in developing clean technology. But with swift action America can still win.
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