college A 52-year-old ex-Navy SEAL reflects on his first semester as a freshman at Yale Thom Dunn

animals Dogs will obey commands from social robots David Pescovitz

schools Yale University's hugely popular "Science of Well Being" happiness class is now free online David Pescovitz

class war Top tech grads are increasingly unwilling to work for Big Tech, viewing it as a new, unethical Wall Street Cory Doctorow

aviation Using the Challenger Disaster to illustrate the 8 symptoms of groupthink Cory Doctorow

books Why are we still treating economics as if it were an empirical science that makes reliable predictions? Cory Doctorow

happiness Why Olympic bronze medalists are happier than silver medalists Mark Frauenfelder

scholarship Amazon's monopsony power: the other antitrust white meat Cory Doctorow

Science What is a nanosecond anyway? Computing pioneer Grace Hopper shows us (1983) David Pescovitz

Technology Drones that save power by hanging like bats and perching like birds David Pescovitz

law The Antitrust Case Against Facebook: a turning point in the debate over Big Tech and monopoly Cory Doctorow

Science Frankenswine: Pig brains partly revived by scientists 4 hours after pigs were killed Xeni Jardin

Science "Cthulhu was real!" say scientists David Pescovitz

picks Yale rescinds admission for student whose parents allegedly paid $1.2 million to get her in Xeni Jardin

cheaters Ringleader of college admissions scandal now admits he helped over 750 families sneak their way into college Carla Sinclair

picks China uses DNA tech to spy on people. Yale geneticist and a U.S. biotech helped. Xeni Jardin

climate Peak indifference: "extreme weather events" drive record US acceptance of climate change as an immediate problem Cory Doctorow

archaeology British Museum discovers vase is actually a mace Jason Weisberger

happy mutants America's Fiber Future: Susan Crawford on how America's wired future is slipping away Cory Doctorow

Science Dolphins forced to simplify calls due to human noise pollution in the oceans David Pescovitz