As a region, Asia pours an estimated $881 billion each year into infrastructure. Some recent notable works include the roughly 6,000-kilometer (3,700-mile) four-lane highway that…
MONKEY AROUND
Does this monkey want to attack you? Take our quiz and find out!
Would you know an angry monkey if you saw one? A friendly monkey? A monkey very seriously considering whether it’s necessary to bite the human…
WRITTEN IN GENES
Images can now be stored in the DNA of living things
A team of Harvard scientists led by Seth Shipman just announced (paywall) that using Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing technology, they’ve encoded images directly into living E. coli,…
HE GONE
Why calculating home run distances is like measuring sea level
It seems like it should be simple to calculate the distance of a home run: We know where the ball starts (at home plate) and…
MACRON MANIFEST
Emmanuel Macron’s official portrait is a symbolic celebration of centrism
With a two-word tweet, French president Emmanuel Macron unveiled his official portrait yesterday. Taken in his office at the Élysée Palace 46 days after being…
Now is a peak time for flight delays in the US
Don’t be fooled by the beautiful weather in the US during summer: It wreaks havoc on air travel. Just this past week, there have been…
PASSWORD1!
The US government says you shouldn’t be forced to use special characters in your passwords
It might be getting easier to remember all of your passwords. The standards organization of the United States, NIST, has concluded that many common requirements…
INSIDER
Mark Zuckerberg just sold $42.5 million of Facebook stock
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, sold $42.5 million worth of his company’s stock this week. The transactions were executed on June 21 and 22 and…
NEW LAND
A 2 million cubic meter landslide in California, before and after images
A massive landslide has cut off access to one of the most scenic places in the US. California Highway 1 is blocked by 2 million…
EAST COAST BIAS
I-95 traffic on Memorial Day mapped so you can try to avoid it
Memorial day is upon the United States and while the holiday is intended to honor the American troops who have died during battle, nearly 40…
DAY IN COURT
A federal judge is skeptical of the US charging a journalist $174,000 for government data
Washington I never thought it would take this long. It’s been more than two years since I first sought data from the US government about…
CAN’T DO
The most exciting two minutes in sports isn’t getting any faster
During many world-class sporting events you can expect the possibility of record-setting performances. The 2016 summer Olympics, for example, saw 19 new world records set.…
