Stories by robg

The End of Banned Books Week: Obscene Odes

Interactive Map and History of the Electoral College back to 1789

'Citizen Journalist' Could Face Prison for Fake Jobs Story

The 2008 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

The financial crisis looks set to hit education funding at all levels.

Image said to reveal an "unknown" tribe instead exposes our ignorance and greed.

Poll: Which version control system should we use?

Can you recall any instances when you saw a pattern that wasn’t really there?

MySpace Music lets you listen to pretty much every song ever recorded, and it still sucks.

Flexible screen could lead to foldable computers

Five Ways Brain Scans Mislead Us

Putting Thoughts into Action: Implants Tap the Thinking Brain

Let Buffett Run the Bailout

Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before

Wreckage of Fossett’s Plane Is Found

The chilling innocence, and organization, of (sea-faring) piracy

The world has a water shortage, not a food shortage

‘Buying Off’ China’s Intellectuals

Thinking like a student for great, cheap design

The Last Typewriter Repairman?