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Social Studies: Sons of the revolution, knee problems, and the baboon brain By Kevin LewisUpdated January 22, 2021, 3:00 a.m. Email to a Friend Founding fathers Delegates to the Constitutional Convention were likelier to vote for a strong national government if they had more sons and less likely to do so if they had more daughters, even controlling for the delegate’s age, whether he had been an officer in the Revolutionary War, the number of slaves he owned, and his financial situation. Th...

minute read Share this article: The Zodiac’s serial killer’s 340 cipher, which couldn’t be solved for 50 years, has been cracked by a remote team of mathematicians. A remote team of three hobbyist cryptologists have solved one of the Zodiac Killer’s cipher after a half century. And while the name of the elusive serial killer remains hidden, the breakthrough represents a triumph for cryptology and the basic building blocks of cybersecurity — access control and segmentation...