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trigger warning for intense imagery Here’s what we know: At 2:50 PM two explosions occurred along on Boylston Street near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Police later detonated a third device further down the street. Beyond the presence of As of 6 PM, two people are dead, and […]

During the 2012 election, The ~2000 members of an anti-Ron Paul subreddit discovered that anything they posted, anywhere on reddit, was being rapidly, repeatedly downvoted. They created a diagnostic subreddit and began posting otherwise meaningless text to verify this otherwise odd behavior.       Another redditor posted a “Java […]

The origin myth is as familiar as that of any dominant empire. Romulus and Remus Larry Page and Sergey Brin met as graduate students at Stanford. Page, casting about for a dissertation topic, settled on the Web as a graph of links. He and Brin began building a program called […]

In a guest post published today on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Head Count” admissions and enrollment blog (for which I myself have written), Jack Baworowsky, VP of enrollment management at Dominican University, warns his colleagues that it “is not a question of if but when will there be a […]

Today, during a heated discussion on the sequester, a frustrated President Barack Obama made the following statement to the press corps as they challenged him to show more leadership in negotiations: “I’m presenting a fair deal, the fact that they don’t take it means that I should somehow, you know, […]