Public goods create a peculiar dilemma: everyone likes the benefits, but paying for them is another matter. Economists call this the free-rider problem—people can enjoy protection, clean air, or herd ...

For the first time since records began, a single company, Amazon, spent more on R&D than the entire German state (see chart below). Germany, birthplace of the modern research university, home to ...

Fans of e-bikes should be aware of a new bill being proposed in California to crackdown on a major problem that continues to ...

A senior director of engineering at Uber shares his rapid career progression in six years using three key strategies.

While competing social networks at the time may have chased goals such as “revenue” or even “usability,” Facebook focused on ...

Op-ed: New Jersey’s new law effectively banning e-bikes misses the mark on the challenges of electric micromobility. It’s also bad for the entire country.

Researchers found men who ejaculated more often had fewer prostate cancer diagnoses, pointing to a possible biological ...

The Story of Bernie Goetz, New York’s Explosive ’80s, and the Subway Vigilante Trial That Divided the Nation, and historian Heather Ann Thompson’s Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz ...

The level of US resources would support a campaign that could last "a few weeks", depending on the level of intensity, an ...

You will be spoiled for choice with tipsters offering you selections in the Cheltenham handicaps this week, including from ...

The great irony, however, is that the LUCAS drone is based on Iran’s own low-cost one-way attack drone, the Shahed-136. In May 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump publicly praised the Iranian drones as ...

Claire Carlson ’23 was a 2022-23 Environmental Ethics Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Improper dumping and waste disposal from corporations impacts the ...