Any college sports fan has heard, and likely participated in, the decades-long argument about why NCAA athletes should or shouldn’t get paid. If you’re new to the issue, the athletes… CONTINUE
Our Financial System Still Runs On An Ancient Programming Language
We aren’t coders here but we’ve certainly been witness to the variety of programming languages that have come in and out of vogue over the last 20 years regarding web… CONTINUE
America’s New Marijuana Capital: Tokelahoma?
The last few elections have seen so many different states pass laws legalizing recreational or medical marijuana that it’s easier to keep up with the handful of states (somewhere between… CONTINUE
The Amateur Detectives Who Sniff Out Military Fakes
Like us, you’ve probably stumbled across those famous YouTube videos where stolen-valor types dress up in military gear they’ve ordered off the Internet to get a free coffee or donut… CONTINUE
This Billionaire Gave Away Everything & Is Now Broke
If you’ve ever had aspirations of being a billionaire — and I mean real, I’m-gonna-make-a-plan-to-get-there-and-here’s-how type of aspirations — then even you probably haven’t thought through what you’re going to… CONTINUE
It’s OK to be blown away by TikTok
If you’ve been an adult for more than handful of years, you can clearly remember a media landscape in which TikTok didn’t exist. And it can’t seem like that long… CONTINUE
Computerized Body Parts Can Keep You Alive. And Be Hacked.
In the now very wide world of the IOT (Internet Of Things), we’re not even surprised anymore when we hear that there’s an internet-connected “computer” inside everything from our cars… CONTINUE
Ditching The Pandemic For A Summer On A Lobster Boat
When I was in college, I spent the summer after my sophomore year as many do — retreating back to my parents’ house and enjoying three precious months of rent-free… CONTINUE
British Chaps Find, Then Lose, Viking Treasure With Metal Detectors
Back in the Stone Age when I was a kid, I discovered the existence of metal detectors and was immediately obsessed with getting my hands on one. I dreamed of… CONTINUE
Can You Identify The Nameless Hiker Called “Mostly Harmless”?
Here’s the story we’re digging the most today. In July 2018, a popular Appalachian Trail hiker was found dead in his tent in Florida. It looked as if he’d starved… CONTINUE