What is an Xbox? Microsoft has spent 25 years trying to answer the question, but for fans, the answer is easy: “Xbox” evokes one-eared headsets wired into the memory card slots of massive controllers ...

Over the years, I’ve been to a lot of American cities with renowned drinking cultures and eclectic bar scenes. I’ve seen my fair share of markets inundated by specific brands, or specific styles of ...

How do we explain victories of neo-strongmen at recent democratic elections? There is no single answer to this question, but one aspect that requires our attention is the changing nature of election ...

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This piece is part of a series of essays on alcohol history. You can read more here. History, by and large, tends to be considerably more complicated than our pop cultural understanding of it. A ...

It has been recognized that even weakly coupled subduction zones may cause large interplate earthquakes leading to destructive tsunamis. The Ryukyu Trench is one of the best fields to study this ...

“I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.” —Tony Hoare, winner of the 1980 Turing Award, in 1982. Take a tour through the research ...

Ever the gentleman, Sean was giving his close friends a heads up. Since then I have been amazed at the number of people who said to me he would make a great candidate. I don't mean to sound surprised ...

A strategy to understand the microbial components of the human genetic and metabolic landscape and how they contribute to normal physiology and predisposition to disease. Before the Human Genome ...