In 65,940 BCE, a girl was born on the Ethiopian Highlands, near present-day Addis Ababa.

Xiu came into the world in 285 BCE, in the countryside of the North China Plain.

Despite the rabid fixation upon the concept of trans women in sports, those who beat the drum the loudest for exclusive policies rarely seem to care about trans people themselves.

Tiny tweak to support page reveals consumers can purchase another year of patch protection

The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and photos taken by CIA officers. But it was discontinued this week.

Longtime entrepreneur and critic Anil Dash speaks with Gazetteer on where the tech industry has been and where it may be going.

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

“Why don’t they just get in line?" It's a question often directed toward undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.

CU Boulder engineers have developed a new method for making vaccines that combines multiple, timed-release doses into a single injection that doesn't require

Blurring The Lines Between Official Censorship And Individual Criticism Built The Intellectual Foundation For Trump's Assault On Free Expression

By using their authority to define what corporations are—and what powers they hold—states can end the era of corporate and dark money in U.S. politics.

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Chatbots ignore their guardrails when your grammar sucks, researchers find Security researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 have discovered the key to getting large language model (LLM) chatbots to ignore their guardrails, and it's quite simple.…

Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

The fatal flaw SpaceX can't overcome.

Alt: Neo, a man in a black shirt, holds his hand out and slows bullets to a stop in midair.

Test matching your answers to the crowd-sourced profiles of fictional characters.

A salty, cranky case for letting Twitter die

Hello, everyone.

How The Worst Of Us May Somewhat Shelter The Rest Of Us

Alt: Vax from the legend of vox machina wearing dark clothes, holding a bag of coins, and saying “let’s start over, shall we?”

To everyone who is afraid of what happens next, I share your fears. But what we do next is important.

Thoughts The Day After