Immigration authorities detain Muhammad Ali, Jr. at Florida airport, demand to know if he's Muslim

The adult son of Muhammad Ali, the late Muslim-American boxing star and civil rights hero, was detained for hours at a Florida airport by U.S. immigration officials, the Courier-Journal reports. “To the Ali family, it's crystal clear that this is directly linked to Mr.

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How Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth in 200 BC

High school teacher Joe Howard made another excellent math video. This time, he shows how Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth in 200 BC. In one of the dopest displays of critical thinking in history, Erotosthenes estimated the circumference of the Earth.

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Scientists hold the first quantum computer face-off

For the first time ever, two quantum computers have faced off against each other in a series of experiments to determine which technology reigns supreme.

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Moby says he has secret intelligence info on Trump

Moby, the DJ, said he talked to friends who work in Washington DC and revealed to him five pieces of secret information about the Trump administration. after spending the weekend talking to friends who work in dc i can safely(well, 'accurately'...

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Immediately after Mike Pence's departure, reasonable Indiana Republicans began undoing his work

As Governor of Indiana, Mike Pence was significantly to the right of the mainstream, even for his own party -- so it's no surprise that in the days after his resignation (to become vice president of the USA), his successor and state Republican lawmakers: pardoned an innocent man who'd been locked

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How to legally cross a US (or other) border without surrendering your data and passwords

The combination of 2014's Supreme Court decision in Riley (which held that the data on your devices was subject to suspicionless border-searches, and suggested that you simply not bring any data you don't want stored and shared by US government agencies with you when you cross the border) and Trump

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Do not buy the House Science Committee’s claim that scientists faked data until you read this

Climate scientists have worked hard for decades to prove climate change. Why is the US House Committee on Science, Space and Technology working so hard not to believe them? On Sunday February 5th, the U.S.

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43 percent of America's children are in families barely able to afford most basic needs

"More than 40 percent of all children live in low-income families -- including 5.2 million infants and toddlers under 3," reports the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. These families are not poor because they are lazy.

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SnapRoute secures $25 million Series A investment for open source network OS

SnapRoute, a startup that builds open source software that enables network engineers to customize commodity networking switches and routers to meet their exact requirements, announced a $25 million A round today, led by Norwest Venture partners.

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In Trump's shambolic White House, staffers who can't find the light-switches literally hold meetings in the dark

Yesterday's anonymously sourced New York Times story is the most detailed picture yet of the bizarre, brooding nightmarescape that is the Trump White House: it's not just the cut-throat power games (and Steve Bannon tricking Trump into helping him stage a coup); it's a big, complicated government

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Ursula K. Le Guin Wants Everyone to Know the Huge Difference Between 'Alternative Facts' and Fiction

The word “alternative” appears both in the fun new craze sweeping the government (“alternative facts”) and in a few science fiction staple ideas (“alternate history” and “alternate universe,” for example). Despite that superficial similarity, legendary scifi author Ursula K.

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#BowlingGreenMassacre is Trump spokesliar Kellyanne Conway's latest 'alternative fact'

On the MSNBC show Hardball with Chris Matthews Thursday night, Donald Trump spokesliar Kellyanne Conway went on a weird tangent about a “massacre” she blamed on Muslims, as she defended the so-called President's racist Muslim Ban.

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Feast your eyes on this gorgeous Hubble photo of a star dying

Just like us, stars are born, live, and die, and while plenty of sci-fi movies have taken artistic liberties with their own depictions of stars dying, a new photo captured by the ever reliable Hubble Space Telescope shows what a star actually looks like while it’s in the throes of death.

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Apple's Tim Cook: Qualcomm Lawsuits Were A Last Resort

Apple CEO Tim Cook isn't a fan of litigation, he said during the most recent earnings call, but he "didn't see another way forward" with Qualcomm. Cook's statement follows lawsuits in San Diego and Beijing seeking $1 billion and 1 billion yuan, respectively, from the baseband processor supplier.

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How motivated skepticism strengthens incorrect beliefs

This is part two in my "The Backfire Effect" series. This one focuses on motivated reasoning, specifically something called motivated skepticism.

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NASA’s Saturn orbiter just delivered the most detailed photos ever of the planet’s rings

NASA’s consistently surprising Cassini orbiter is rapidly approaching the end of its life, but before it signs off forever it’s been taking some really fantastic shots of Saturn as it swings and dives between the planet’s rings.

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Netgear Nighthawk M1: LTE Cat 16 Router up to 1 Gbps

Netgear this week announced the Nighthawk M1 mobile router, which is the industry’s first 4G LTE device with download speed up to 1 Gbps.

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