Why rudeness at work is contagious and difficult to stop.

Most people can relate to the experience of having a colleague inexplicably treat them rudely at work. You’re not invited to attend a meeting. A co-worker gets coffee – for everyone but you. Your input is laughed at or ignored. You wonder: where did this come from?

Can we diagnose disease from the sound of a voice?

Scientists are racing to diagnose and predict manic episodes, heart disease, concussion and more based on an unusual source of data: how you talk.

Jim O’Rourke’s Living Musical Journal.

The Function of Music with Jad Abumrad, founder or Radiolab.

If you need a crowd of people for nearly any reason, Crowds on Demand can make it happen.

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A Women’s History of Silicon Valley.

107 Nobel laureates sign letter blasting Greenpeace over genetically modified organisms – Greenpeace responds.

Brush your teeth while eating a Colgate Kitchen Entree.

17 Commercial Failures From Brands With Spectacularly Bad Ideas.

How a comment on HackerNews lead to 4 ½ new Unicode characters.

The history of all the languages which almost became CSS.