What the headline
is really saying.
Daniel covers the intersection of psychology, technology, and human behavior. He brings a background in technology research and a focus on how scientific findings translate into the way people actually live, work, and think.
London Bridge spent 137 years carrying Londoners across the Thames. It now stands in the Arizona desert, over a channel of water that was dug so it would have something to cross. The man who put it there made much of hi…
The laser pointer cost US$30, kept a cat busy for about a fortnight, and then died. Its owner, a Silicon Valley programmer named Pierre Omidyar, had…
A trader at a market in northern Myanmar held up a lump of amber about the size of a pencil eraser and explained that the fuzzy brown thing suspended…
Behind every large supermarket sits a bin that, for decades, ate better than some of the people walking past it. Morning bread by late afternoon. Yog…
Termites have no interest in a shopping bag. That one dull fact explains why plastic hauled off Nairobi's dumpsites is now standing in rows across Ke…
Everyone knows roughly how much sleep they got last night. Almost nobody knows how far their bedtime moved across the week. That second number is wha…
