Magicians have been testing and exploiting the limits of cognition and attention for hundreds of years. Neuroscientists are just beginning to catch up.

By the end of June, 2.4 million homes were in foreclosure or prolonged deliquency.

The best economic indicator you’ve never heard of.

Ellen Spertus, a graduate student at M.I.T., wondered why the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at M.I.T. female? She published a 124-page paper, “Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?”, that catalogued different cultural biases that discouraged girls and women from pursuing a career in the field. The year was 1991.

Computer science has changed considerably since then. Now, there are even fewer women entering the field.

Connect the disconnected to each other and you create value.

The rise of extreme beer.

Instead of a more efficient system, we should be trying to build a more reliable one.

The former news director of WTMJ reveals how talk show hosts like Charlie Sykes and Jeff Wagner work to get us angry.

Tesla is a classic Silicon Valley project: it’s late and over budget, still has bugs and, at $109,000, costs more than planned.

A report from the chaotic postfeminist dating scene, where only the strong survive.