Readers familiar with 3Jane, Moya, or Locutus of Borg may have wondered about the architectural implications of technology that bridges such disparate systems. How do you go from a biological organism ...

HUMAN language is the subject of endless scientific investigation, but the gestures that accompany speech are a surprisingly neglected area. It is sometimes jokingly said that the way to render an ...

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… I did a lot of work on the measurement of domestic electrical energy. I learned two key lessons from the whole project. Firstly, that the metrology of ...

We’ve all seen recreations of the famous double-slit experiment, which showed that light can behave both as a wave and as a particle. Or rather, it’s likely that what we’ve seen is the results of the ...

ECONOMIC HANDWAVING….In the New York Times, Greg Mankiw tries to pretend that growing income inequality is inevitable if we want the overall economy to grow. Try to reduce income inequality, he says, ...