From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...

Most pilots rely on METARs, ATIS, AWOS, and, of course, their own eyes when determining visibility. But what if your phone could give you an objective visibility reading anywhere, anytime? That’s the ...

Paid media is often treated like a checklist item in a marketing plan: launch a few search ads, run a Meta campaign, maybe test YouTube if there’s budget left. But not all paid media is created equal, ...

While aviation accidents have made headlines a lot in 2025, airline travel continues to be the safest type of transportation. You can look at the first quarter of the transportation statistics here.

Like any self respecting nerd, one of the first stops over my morning coffee is xkcd a webcomic created in 2005. Author, Randall Munroe, describes it as "a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and ...

when you file IFR it's usually better to fly an altitude that keeps you above the clouds if you're in a big jet this usually isn't a problem as you're in the flight levels Which is higher than most of ...

From an innovative (and subsequently controversial) opening ceremony to shattered world records across the sports spectrum, the Paris Olympics have marked a celebratory return to the Games we knew and ...

In addition to being one of the most fun words to say—and hardest to spell—in English, “onomatopoeia” probably calls to mind a whole bunch of silly, fun words. Onomatopoeia is the process of creating ...

The publics surveyed are largely skeptical that democracy in the U.S., at least in its current form, is a good example for other countries to follow. A median of four-in-ten across the 34 nations ...