Gourmet has an interesting Q&A with Tom Standage, Economist business editor and author of the new book An Edible History of Humanity. Standage says that food has driven our technological evolution, ...

Robert Siegel talks about the history of beer with Tom Standage, technology editor at The Economist. A History of the World in Six Glasses is Standage's new book that traces the history of ...

LONDON — The past few months have been full of change at The Economist. In January, Zanny Minton Beddoes was appointed the magazine’s new editor after her predecessor, John Micklethwait, left for ...

The Economist’s Tom Standage talks mobile strategy, apps and why he’s betting on subscriptions One of the preeminent business publications, The Economist leverages multiple mobile platforms to engage ...

Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt: Stone-age brew -- Civilized beer -- Wine in Greece and Rome: The delight of wine -- The imperial vine -- Spirits in the colonial period: High spirits, high seas -- The ...

A crunchy, juicy bite of a golden ear of corn on a cool, spring day. That seemingly simple bite is actually the byproduct of thousands of deliberate human decisions, from hunting and gathering to ...

To Tom Standage, “social media” is nothing new. Twitter and Facebook, he argues in his latest book, Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years, are simply the newest twists on an old ...

A BRIEF HISTORY OF MOTION From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next By Tom Standage ABOUT TIME A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks By David Rooney The problem with electric cars, their ...