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Recent events indicate that we haven't heard the last of the least popular vice president in history.

THE FOUNDATION "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." —Samuel Adams (1749) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1874, Thomas Nast published a cartoon depicting the Republican Party as an elephant,...

When Tom Cruise battles a sentient artificial intelligence "Entity" in the latest Mission Impossible film, he joins a long list of heroes who've had to fight a malevolent machine onscreen.

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

The fear of our creations replacing us has been a staple of the human imagination for a long time. Take comfort in that.

Sadly, XoXe will never find “evidence” for believing in God though the truth is right under its shiny nose.

Nils Aall Barricelli Credit: edge69 / Getty Images In March 2003, science and technology historian George Dyson gave a typically entertaining TED talk about the creation of the modern computer, featuring characters ranging from Thomas Hobbes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the 17th century, to John von Neumann, a pioneer of the modern computer in the 1940s. Despite the luminous supporting cast, however, the star of Dyson’s show was Italian-Norwegian mathematician Nils Aall Barricelli. “Thi...