The next installment of The Story of Us by the blogger and illustrator Tim Urban of Wait But Why! A single cell is itself a giant—a magical living giant made […]

Fanfiction is fan-written fiction about existing characters and worlds created by other writers, usually from popular media such as TV, movies, or bestselling books. When did people start writing fanfiction? […]

There are doctors whose daily job, their 9-5, is making the blind to see. There are people whose everyday job at the factory is constructing tiny devices that are implanted […]

The next installment of The Story of Us by the blogger and illustrator Tim Urban of Wait But Why! Building giants was a necessity for ancient humans. A human tribe […]

The more we work with LLMs (Large Language Models, like ChatGPT and Gemini and Claude), and the more we struggle with the stupid mistakes that they make, the more we […]

To be overwhelmed by the greatness of something isn't necessarily pleasant. When we talk about Awe as atheists do we really mean the overwhelmed part? Are we focused on powerfully […]

Bayes' Theorem is a formula for calculating probability based on evidence available. It is demonstrably correct (that's what makes it a theorem), and many modern institutions now rely on it: […]

The next installment of The Story of Us by the blogger and illustrator Tim Urban of Wait But Why! In the late 1700s, the forefathers of what became the United […]

Let's plan what we'll be doing for the next quarter! Is there a topic you'd like to give a talk about? Come have a voice in what we do next […]

Kaizen is the Japanese word for improvement. The word has come to be applied to a specific approach to improvement, originally in industrial and business processes, later expanded to self-improvement. […]