Written by Doug McConnell A jury recently acquitted several activists charged with causing £25,000 worth of damage to Shell's HQ in London despite the defendants admitting that they caused the damage and the judge informing the jury that the defendants had…

I am old enough to remember the publication of the Strawman, Woodenman, Tinman, Ironman, and Steelman specifications for a new computer language in the mid 1970s — the language that became Ada. A few years later I read C. A. R. Hoare's Turing Award speech…

Docker Inc. started like many startups with engineers working from a single location. For us, this was in the Bay Area in the US. We were very office-centric, so the natural way to increase diversity and to get engineers from different cultures to work together…

I was not planning to write anything today, but when I opened my online UK newspaper I discovered that it was Father’s Day. Eight people were telling the story of their relationships with their fathers, and their collective efforts inspired me to do the same.…

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We should have policies to make the poor less poor. Unfortunately, policies explicitly aimed at trying to make the poor less poor typica...

USC’s Emily Nix wants to excite her economics students this fall. With less than $60 in materials, she cooked up this online teaching hack.

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As definitions of sexuality change and expand, women’s orientations are becoming less rigid than men's. Why?

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The world's greatest hoard of original Atari equipment is guarded by a very temperamental, very devoted dragon named Bradley.

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In 2016 North Korean hackers planned a $1bn raid on Bangladesh's national bank and came within an inch of success. But how did they do it?

I have hated Tim Ferriss for a long time. I have hated him since we both had editors at Crown Publishing who sat next to each other and I heard how difficult he is. I didn’t blog about it because first of all, I’m sure the buzz about me is that I’m difficult…

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