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This is a provocative question, and it really depends on what you mean by a digital newspaper. Arguably any written language formed out of...

It depends -- on the day, your location in the river basin, and who you are. The short answer is that if you are young and have a robust i...

It doesn't quite make sense to sum odds. But if we talk about converting the odds into the probabilities of each horse's winning, th...

It depends how you count. I'm no Twitter expert, but here's my understanding from a tech talk by Raffi Krikorian and colleagues in S...

The laws of physics (Maxwell's equations, etc.) work the same in any inertial reference frame, so in that sense, no, there is no inertia...

Practice! And read the best stories in print. And read Blundell's "The Art and Craft of Feature Writing." Go look up old stori...

About a quarter of the U.S. News formula is an opinion poll of university administrators (presidents, provosts and deans) and high school co...

There are some big differences between living in a plane, versus living in Euclidean 3D and merely being able to perceive only a plane slice...

In 2002, I got my first cell phone. June was stuffy in Manhattan, and my summer internship copy-editing the  New York Sun , the now-defun...

Take the ferry or sail to Spectacle Island, visit the museum on the island's history, hike up to the top of the island (the highest poin...

Get out and enjoy all that Boston has to offer! Spend the summers here -- Boston is beautiful in the summer. Get a guidebook and peruse it. ...

Mathematically speaking, frequentist and Bayesian methods differ in what they care about, and the kind of errors they're willing to acce...