Americans spend 7% of their budget on food. Pakistanis spend 47%.

A penalty taker in soccer should always kick to their strong side, because that gives him or her an advantage, right? But wait, then the goalie would expect the ball to come from that direction, and move to stop the shot. So the kicker should go to the weak side? Wrong again. According to game theory—the study of how...

A new report finds that higher intelligence is linked with rural-to-city migration, and with city-to-suburb movement.

Summary: Solar panels for 28 cents per watt — that’s what startup Siva Power says it could one day deliver.

Summary: The power that corporations like Google and Facebook have to influence the digital content you consume means that you shouldn’t necessarily depend on them to surface the things you need to know.

Contrary to popular opinion, voting in America is not intrinsically tied to citizenship. Voting has always been about who has a say in selecting representatives. And political exclusion is a recipe for disastrous, discriminatory public policy and private practice. And yet the US is, again, excluding a large and growing segment of its population from...

A survey of UK eaters found that vegetarians had roughly half the food-related carbon footprint of meat eaters.

Summary: The app tells users what services like Facebook can figure out about their personality and intentions. In the future, it wants to encourage people to feed that data to advertisers for cash rewards. This is an attempt to improve rather than reinvent the current internet model.

Here’s a horrifying thought for old media fans and those wistful for the way things were. By the end of 2014, according to new figures out from eMarketer today, more money will have been spent on m...