Nathan Yau

Jeff Horwitz, for Reuters, tells the story of 76-year-old Thongbue Wongbandue, who grew…

AI companies like to say that they are close to or reached a…

Because no one is perfect, even those striving for PhD-level intelligence.

Wplace uses a world map as a canvas. Zoom in to where you…

In what now seems like a tale as old as time, a man…

Molly Smith reports for Bloomberg on the appointing of EJ Antoni to head…

Many are discovering that the Bureau of Labor Statistics updates past estimates, but…

The stores use Flock cameras to collect license plate data from cars entering…

During the DOGE-fueled federal firings, which seems like a lifetime ago already, the…

OpenAI introduced GPT-5 in a livestream, and they used a set of seemingly…

Hansi Lo Wang reporting for NPR:
The 14th Amendment requires the “whole number…

Matt Seaton, for the Atlantic, reports on how the statistical approach impacted cycling…

Staying within chart defaults might provide an advantage.

Reuters highlights unsafe temperatures in prison cells, using building models, public records, and…

It’s exciting when an animal escapes from the zoo. A monkey breaks free…

Drew Harwell, reporting for the Washington Post:
Artificial intelligence tools are not just…

N. Gregory Mankiw and Cecilia Rouse, both former chairs of the Council of…

For the New York Times, Steven Strogatz explains taxicab geometry through the lens…

The problem with two-dimensional map projections is distortion creeps in no matter what…