Subscribe to Geek Fuel to get a monthly mystery box by mail. Here's what the sold-out December box contained. (Courtesy of Troy Dreier) When I got home the other day, a bright red shoebox full of ...

I like the idea behind Swivel: Allow anyone to upload any data set and compare it with other data. At this writing, on the service's first day live, there are 13,364 different graphs on the site. This ...

Eleven-year-old Mia Manning wants to take a computer apart and rebuild it. "I want to learn how to disable a computer and put it back together," said Mia, who will be in sixth grade at Peachtree ...

Marvel Comics Library: Fantastic Four 1961-63, by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, introduction by Mark Waid, Taschen Books, 2022. Looking for the perfect something for the ...

One of my all‐time favorite lessons to teach students about science is "Correlation does not equal causation," meaning that just because two things happen together or change over time in the same way, ...

You must have seen the photo from earlier this spring: Young computer scientist Katie Bouman, sitting before a laptop with her hands barely concealing a smile, watching the first-ever photo of a black ...

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It’s the time of year for eggnog, present wrapping and terrible, awful, no-good bullshit Christmas movies. Seriously, is there any holiday more beleaguered by cheesy garbage than Christmas? While yes, ...

Seriousness is overrated. Sure, there’s a time to be focused and professional. But there’s also a time to be silly and immature — yes, even when you have an ...