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Steve Stone, a cybersecurity expert, recently recounted an incident that left a lasting impression on him. He found that every Chinese hacker he traced was simultaneously targeting a specific hospital. It turned out these hackers were after…

DURHAM, NC—Threatening to have his client sit out the rest of the academic semester unless he was paid what he’s worth, Cooper Flagg’s agent Austin Brown negotiated a 10% increase Monday in textbook buyback value for the NCAA star from the…

EDMONTON – As a hotly-anticipated blockbuster began playing in a packed theatre, 36-year-old Colin Schneider reassured his fellow moviegoers that he’d put his incredibly bright phone away just as soon as he finished reading hundreds of…

A paper published in Royal Society Open Science found that many medieval book covers previously thought to be made from deer or boar skin were in fact made of sealskin. What do you think? “I’ve always thought seals would look great…

Is the evidence for God’s existence weak? Well, a new book by New York Times columnist Ross Douthat argues otherwise. In Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, Douthat maintains not only that everyone should take God seriously, but that…

LOS ANGELES—Thanking everyone who had helped her make the world a more unequal and uneducated place, actress and comedian Roseanne Barr announced Monday that her illiteracy charity had snatched its 100 millionth book from a child.…

In the opening weeks of 2022, a California state senator took to the site then known as Twitter to promote his bill that would allow children from the age of 12 and up to get mRNA injections without parental knowledge or consent. Sen. Scott…

Churchill once said of John Foster Dulles that he was “the only case I know of a bull who carries his own China shop around with him.” Had Churchill miraculously lived another 60 odd years, I think he would agree that when it comes to this…

An 81-year-old woman returned an overdue book to a New Jersey library after discovering it among her grandfather’s old things, finding that the book, Home-Made Toys For Girls And Boys, was borrowed in March 1926. What do you think?…

When Dorothea von Ertmann, a friend and student of Beethoven’s, lost her only young child, Beethoven learned of her inconsolable grief. Instead of offering words of consolation, he sat at the piano and played for her, improvising for an…