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…

The New York Times just published another installment of its focus challenge series: an ultra-high-resolution photograph of the Grand Central Terminal…

There's a strange pattern in how people respond when asked whether large language models are genuinely intelligent. Regular people shrug and say y…