Is Bitcoin the Death of Fiat Currency?: Podcast
Q&A with Michael Goldstein and Pierre Rochard of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute.
Q&A with Michael Goldstein and Pierre Rochard of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute.
Studies debunk the claim that we live in post-fact, post-truth world.
Fear of GMO foods is an example of the broader problem of political and scientific ignorance.
It's past time to tell your anti-GMO friends, family and neighbors they are helping to kill poor people.
The city's goal is to curb "unconscious bias." But the policy is based on dangerous premises, and is likely to harm tenants more than it benefits them.
Survey finds 47 percent of people believe in the existence of intelligent alien civilizations in the universe.
Evaluating the current cycle of buzz
Sharing arrest and accident info on Facebook before cops can tell "official" media is not OK, say Laredo police-and nevermind that one of their own was the source.
Oral arguments in Carpenter v. U.S. reveal a division between two conservative justices.
As people worry about the net neutrality vote, public officials threaten our rights to free speech.
Will a new regulatory framework help stop extortion and police abuse, or will it set the stage for a brutal crackdown?
A related measure would open digital platforms to liability for past crimes committed by users.
Mainstream economists were trained to believe that currencies need to be managed by central banks. So this new form of money is...hard to grasp.
An appeals court defends anonymous speech.
An investigation would've taken months, so Larksville Police decided to skip that part.
Notes from satisfied and/or snarky customers, and a last-ditch attempt to loosen some of your crypto-riches!
Set aside the Chicken Little fears about the internet dying.
The DOJ fundamentally misunderstands the market for access and content.
Academic publishers are "still acting as if the internet doesn't exist," says Michael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science.
If neuropharmaceuticals are ethical, so are machine-brain interface technologies.
Joseph Stiglitz is the George Costanza of economists: Every instinct he has, do the opposite.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown argues in The New York Times that we can thank "feminism, but also free markets" for the ongoing purge of predatory men.
"Most Americans, I think, still want to avoid Big Brother."
What's at issue today in Carpenter v. United States.
Bitcoin is booming. Libertarians were there first. So where are all the cryptocurrency tycoons?
Libertarians understood the power of bitcoin early on. Now it's booming. So where are the cryptocurrency tycoons?
Alkahest's vampire cure for aging experiment yields equivocal results
Expensive high-speed internet and job training won't transform Appalachia into "Silicon Holler."
Weir's new book Artemis imagines life in a lunar settlement.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will reportedly approve a GMO virus to fight citrus greening disease.
Promises that "we're going to see an explosion in the kinds of connectivity and the depth of that connectivity" like never before.
The government is regularly excluded when we use the word "violence."
A amendment from Democrats says no state money can go to defending the law in court.
The USDA just dumped Obama administration's proposed ridiculous biotech crop regulations; the FDA should quickly follow suit.
Another possible standoff where officials want to compromise everybody's data security.
Customers lost billions in bitcoin, and former operator Mark Karpeles could gain well over half a billion.
New AI tools could empower the government to violate our civil liberties.
Is there no more room for scientific skepticism and debate?
Our first president might be shocked at the regulatory machinery imposed on distillers.
Information-and, yes, misinformation-flows more easily and cheaply than ever, making access nearly universal. That's a good thing.
Do not ignore the self-interest of elected officials in controlling online political messaging.
Stop scapegoating Russia for America's divisions—and stop using Moscow as an excuse to call for restrictions on speech.
Q&A with Caitlin Long, a former Morgan Stanley managing director, cryptocurrency enthusiast, and recent convert to Austrian economics.