The push for fareless transit is downstream of a larger failure: American urban elected officials have struggled to improve government services, especially infrastructure development.
Instead of trying to move classes online, schools should support parents in educating their children.
All that online symptom-searching and self-diagnosing has paid off: Reseach has shown that traffic to the site can be used to predict disease outbreaks well in advance.
What Gamergate means for Twitter—and networked life
Plus, noting one more shift in online journalism
Plus: free expression and social justice in the book world
Why playing with algebraic and calculus concepts—rather than doing arithmetic drills—may be a better way to introduce children to math
The job of a news reporter today is to declare what you can’t yet know to people convinced that they already do.