Compared to our barely clad, spaghetti-strapped swimsuit styles, the bathing costumes of the 18th and 19th century seem laughably prudish. But those days, people worried that glimpsing more than a ...

To many a scientist the discouraging moment in life conies when his figures begin to run amok. Figures can bristle like barbed-wire barriers between his data and his conclusions. He finds that before ...

We admit it: we're fans of the AMC series Mad Men. Big fans. And while the plotlines can be good, and the acting is very good, what's most seductive about the advertising-world drama is soaking in the ...

Machine Men is a single map with plenty of grunt set in an abandoned lava-strewn demonic foundry. The title is inspired by the Bruce Dickinson song of the same name. Games metadata is powered by ...

I see the Industrial Revolution as tearing men away from home. It literally forced men off their farms. It also served to disconnect men from their bodies. Their bodies no longer related to livestock, ...

How do you know a human wrote this? I did, of course. But what if there were a chance that I was not a 24-year-old female but a sophisticated algorithm that drew from IMDB and reactions on Twitter to ...

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