4chan's Creator Has Joined Google
Technology Christopher Poole, aka 'Moot,' lands at the search giant after failed ventures Let's hope it's a good home for Moot as well.
View ArticleHuman Sacrifice May Have Helped Create Complex Societies
Science By keeping the people down Ritualized human sacrifice was a driver in the formation of the large scale, stratified societies we live in today and was continually used as a tool to maintain...
View Article'Black Panther' Has The Coolest Tech In The Marvel Universe
Entertainment We talked to the designer of Marvel's most technologically advanced nation Black Panther hails from a nation with the coolest tech in the Marvel universe. Here's the guy who's designing it.
View Article'Ancient Greek' Ruins Actually Made By Ancient Microbes
Science The great artisans of nature Scientists discover that what was thought to be an ancient Greek city was actually a fluke of natural systems…
View ArticleSnapchat Announces New 'Memories' Feature For Reliving Your Mundane Life
Entertainment The ephemeral photo-sharing service is getting a huge upgrade Snapchat announced their new Memories feature today on their blog.
View ArticleMad About Climate Denial
Nexus Media News A cartoonist and a climate scientist teamed up on a new book. In their new book, The Madhouse Effect, renowned climate scientist Michael Mann and Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles...
View ArticleA Comic-Book Cure For Climate Change
Nexus Media News What we can learn from superheroes, fiction and fantasy From Doctor Fate to the Green Lantern, superheroes are tackling the carbon crisis. But climate change is a peculiar challenge...
View ArticleHow did music get its groove? Scientists made rhythm evolve in a lab to find...
Science Mistakes help rhythm to emerge from randomness A drum-based game of telephone has revealed how rhythm might have taken shape in human music.
View ArticleZero is just 1,500 years old. Before it, there was nothing.
Science How humans invented zero—and why some tried desperately to do without it. Life without zero is unimaginable. But the concept is only 1,500 years old.
View ArticleRethinking what sets humans apart starts with asking if we're special at all
Animals Excerpt: Humanimal All the things that we consider as part of the human condition—speech, language, consciousness, tool use, art, music, material culture, commerce, agriculture,…
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