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Up until the last few years, if you wanted to translate from one language to…

Researchers need to publish as much as the Finnish need coffee. With the highest annual…

Last Friday, a student shooting at Arapahoe High School left one classmate in a critical…

At The Echo Nest we collect pretty much every bit of data about music we…

I overheard a conversation with a man representing a Silicon Valley company the other day.…

This month marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of Alvan Feinstein’s paper ‘Scientific Standards…

Do you know your chance of developing cancer? diabetes? osteoperosis? If not, there is a…

It has been a source of comfort for many Americans at Thanksgiving that although they…

Since the publication of Poor Numbers a healthy debate on the meaning of development statistics…

Recently, I was let in on a fascinating email conversation that spontaneously began when two…

During the First World War, countries on both sides introduced ‘daylight saving time’ (DST) in…