In October 1939, as Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin were plunging the world into war, an American educational reformer named Abraham Flexner published an essay in Harper’s Magazine under the marvelous ...

On April 30, 1939, under the gathering storm clouds of war, the New York World’s Fair opened in Flushing Meadows, Queens. Its theme was The World of Tomorrow. Over the next 18 months, nearly 45 ...

There's always that one person at the party who has a story for everything. But if we're being honest, aren't those people the most interesting and fun to be around? You never know just what wild and ...

For some reason or another, we tend to accumulate knowledge that is pretty useless. These trivial facts, however, can be fun to share even if they don't have a purpose. One curious user on Reddit ...

Discouraged by a steady decline in the number of U. S. students studying languages, and by the racial and religious discriminations against teachers in other lands —which they deplored*—2,500 members ...

The address for the Institute for Advanced Study is 1 Einstein Drive, named after undoubtedly the most famous scientist to work here. The campus lies amid sprawling green meadows, oak trees and a ...

In response to the discussion I posted yesterday regarding exceptions, rules, and the nature of the word "proves," I received complaints that this kind of thing doesn't belong in an IT publication.

In October 1939, as Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin were plunging the world into war, an American educational reformer named Abraham Flexner published an essay in Harper’s Magazine under the marvelous ...

Friday, Jan. 4, 2018 -- In October 1939, as Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin were plunging the world into war, an American educational reformer named Abraham Flexner published an essay in Harper's ...

This is how fundamental discoveries — aka, “useless knowledge” — are usually made: not so much by hunting for something specific, but by wandering with an interested eye amid the unknown. It’s also ...