Hitting the Books: How Los Angeles became a ‘Freewaytopia’
Some 515 miles of freeway snake through greater Los Angeles, connecting its 10 million residents from Sylmar in the north all the way down to the shores of…
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Hitting the Books: Why that one uncle of yours continually refuses to believe in climate change
The holidays are fast approaching and you know what that means: pumpkin spice everything, seasonal cheer, and family gatherings — all while avoiding your…
GTA trilogy remaster takes one step closer to hitting your consoles
It looks as if that Grand Theft Auto trilogy remaster is getting ever closer to becoming a reality. A new rating listing for for Grand Theft Auto: The…
Hitting the Books: How Bitcoin is somehow worth more than the paper it’s printed on
Bitcoin and similar blockchain-based cryptos exhibit the same radical divergence from traditional scarcity economics that we first saw when MP3s and Napster…
Hitting the Books: A look at the 1920s airship that nearly made it to the North Pole
During the Roaring '20s just about everybody was convinced that dirigibles were not just the future of luxury travel but that these lumbering airships could…
Venom: Let There Be Carnage hitting theaters earlier than planned | Digit
Sony Pictures recently announced that the worldwide release date for Venom: Let There Be Carnage has been moved up to 1st October (the original release date…
Hitting the Books: How Florence Nightingale changed medicine using stats and ‘rose…
During Crimean War, hospitals of the day weren't so much centers of healing or recovery as they were the places where injured combatants went to die slightly…
Hitting the Books: What exactly did Jodi Foster hear in ‘Contact’?
Art may imitate life but it rarely does so with realistic fidelity. As Naomi Pequette, Space Science Programs Specialist at the Denver Museum of Nature and…
Hitting the Books: How Tesla engineers solved the problem of exploding EV batteries
Between CEO Elon Musk's often erratic antics, strident competition from existing industry titans, and a public that is still not fully sold on the idea of…