A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Kumamoto Prefecture a couple weeks ago. Within a few hours came the usual flood: drone footage of a partially collapsed…

I haven't set an alarm in decades. My body always wakes me a little after 4:30am, I get ready, read for a bit, and I'm at the gym when the doo…

A vegetarian grain-bowl reconstruction of United Airlines' "Spiced Quinoa" — itself a deconstruction of the Mexican classic chiles en no…

In 1969 Volker Strassen found a way to multiply two 4×4 matrices using 49 scalar multiplications instead of the obvious 64. The trick went into textbo…

For years I've predicted that the tipping point for autonomous vehicles will arrive on an actuary's spreadsheet. Once insurers accumulate enou…

From my Cooking the World series... A sangria-meets-clericó macerated fruit salad for the 2026 World Cup Final Serves: 10 Total time: ~30 minutes ac…

Right now, sitting wherever you are, you're surrounded by things you cannot perceive. Radio waves from a dozen stations are passing through your b…

One of my few real regrets in life is choosing to go to an almost entirely engineering school. I got a first-rate education in thermodynamics and reac…