Entropy gets a bad rap. Typically associated with randomness and chaos, it can also correlate with freedom and diversity.

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In the beginning, there was a startup called the United States, which we’ll refer to by its stock-ticker symbol, USA. It was ...

Anna Nordseth is an ecology writer and Duke University Ph.D. candidate specializing in tropical forest ecology, conservation research, and biodiversity. Boreal forests, or taiga, are found between 50 ...

This post was co-authored by Erin Marshall. In life, it can be easy to get caught up in the pursuit of success. We have been conditioned to believe that we need to be faster, smarter, richer, better, ...

It’s ironic how election season exposes those who actually hate “self-governance.” These are politicians who constantly spout ...

When combining two complete sentences with a conjunction ("and," "but," "or," "for," or "yet"), precede the conjunction with a comma. Example: Still, the sun is slowly getting brighter and hotter, and ...

Renewable energy is energy derived from natural sources that are replenished at a higher rate than they are consumed. Sunlight and wind, for example, are such sources that are constantly being ...

Humans and machines can enhance each other’s strengths. by H. James Wilson and Paul R. Daugherty Artificial intelligence is becoming good at many “human” jobs—diagnosing disease, translating languages ...

An analog computer is a system that provides information in continuous form. These computers can only represent physical quantities such as pressure, weight, voltage pressure, speed, and more.