Stories by mhb

AI That Annoys Telemarketers

When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number

'Brinicle' ice finger of death filmed in Antarctic

Selling license plate data – 2.2B photos of plates in US cities

High protein intake preserves muscle when you’re dieting

Why the Future Is Bright for the World’s Poorest Farmers – Bill Gates

Wreck of Amtrak 188: What caused the worst American rail disaster in decades?

Building an Impossible Clock

Too Good to Be True: How More Evidence Can Decrease Confidence

Italian papers on genetically modified crops under investigation

Astounding Feats in Pen, Ink and Magnifying Glass

Lego Changes Controversial Bulk Order Policy

Mycotecture: Structures Made from Fungus

UN library announced its most-checked-out book of 2015. It's kind of disturbing

Jute Diet: Everything you need to know about diet and weight loss in one graph

An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem

Accounting for the Rise in College Tuition [pdf]

Nitrogen Can Triple Energy Capacity of Supercapacitors

Why Dole owns container ships

Scientists may have found formula for a painless existence