Umpiring and Peer-Review: Why a Perfect Game Is Still a Perfect Game
When clearly observable facts are ignored and post-hoc analysis abandoned, great achievements can be undercut by injustices.
When clearly observable facts are ignored and post-hoc analysis abandoned, great achievements can be undercut by injustices.
Is there a good case against linking? Or are links just an updated version of an old idea?
The system of scientific publication is broken, with rewards cynically exploited by many players while science fills with more and more garbage. How can we fix this?
The classic bins of user behavior — browse, search, and seek — may have a third and more vital aspect.
Ah, nostalgia for when technology was cool in a completely different way.
This fun Lego animation takes you through an important part of Memorial Day history — the history of how we’ve partially tamed microorganisms.
Blogs, Twitter, and YouTube feast on traditional media, but they change the agenda for millions in the meantime, as a recent Pew study shows.
Blogging platforms have morphed into web site and social media platforms. But now they’re moving into areas even farther afield, like books.
Facebook continues to try to redefine identity as an addressable single element for its business model. Should we monkeys allow it?
Can Diaspora restore social networking to personal control?