Ghosting is on the rise, especially on mobile dating apps. Here are six things to think about before you ghost, and nine ways to deal with being ghosted.
A film director set out to capture the many sides of silence on film. What he realized: Silence is a state that’s tremendously appealing — and tremendously uncomfortable.
Google, Facebook, Amazon and others make their profits in two main ways: by collecting as much data as possible from us and by controlling what we pay for, says online security expert Bruce Schneier. And what does this all depend on? A vulnerable internet.
Icelanders’ extreme efforts to keep their language pure extends to what people can call their newborns, but the days of these official name-keepers appear to be numbered.
How do you build a real-world machine to test the most abstract of theories? Janna Levin talks with Rai Weiss, one of the original designers of LIGO, the four-kilometer-long sensors that have now twice detected the distant reverberations of two black holes crashing into one another.
Community member Peter Carpenter shared details of his own story fighting leukemia in response to Stephen Friend’s TED Talk, “The hunt for ‘unexpected genetic heroes’.”