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Year in Review: Top discoveries of 2014

If you sometimes feel as though you struggle to keep up with the pace of scientific developments, it’s not just your imagination. A study earlier this year showed that the rate of...

The Myth of Polyphemos: Not Seeing in 3D

In Homer’s Odyssey, the ancient Greece king Ulysses lost his way at...

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The Jet Set

Modern air travel is a dream sequence wrapped in nightmarish service. Between...

Curta: a mechanical pocket calculator

Before electronic calculators became affordable in the 1970s, logarithm tables and slide...

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The Internet of Things

The idea of a highly-connected world isn’t exactly new, but we now...

Is Virtual Reality Making a Comeback?
By Denis Maniti on April 9, 2014
If you grew up in the late 80s or early 90s, there’s a good chance you played a Viewmaster, or if you were even luckier,...
The Avatars of Mammon: Bitcoins
By Manosij Majumdar on March 18, 2014
0 A note on usage: Bitcoin, with a capital ‘B’, is the name of the digital currency and the technology built around it. Individual units...
LLC vs. C corp vs. S corp
By Sarah Edgecomb on March 11, 2014
One of the most pressing issues that early-stage entrepreneurs face is the question of what type of legal entity to form for their business. The...
Canada Auctions 700MHz spectrum
By Denis Maniti on March 5, 2014
Canada has recently auctioned its 700MHz spectrum band, formerly used by TV networks to distribute analog TV signals over the air. This was an inefficient...
The avatars of mammon: The evolution of money from coins to consensus
By Manosij Majumdar on February 19, 2014
The very best inventions solve the most fundamental problems, and money solves a problem so primitive that the original problem barely impinges on our consciousness...