There are rules in the physical world about what can and cannot happen. Newton might have described some of them,…
Alexis Madrigal
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Some writers we know write about the future: William Gibson, Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Philip K. Dick, Ursula…
Over the holidays, my wife and I packed up our son for our annual voyage to Portland to visit my family. Expecting…
Update 12/18: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Uber has agreed to "suspend operations in Portland for three…
About two years ago, I wrote a story about a strange phenomenon on the web: in a medium known for its ability to…
A new batch of internal Sony Pictures documents has been posted to the Internet by the hackers going by the name…
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I want to show you something. First, below, you'll see real seventh grade math homework, which I acquired from my…