An armed man at a gathering of the website’s volunteers is just the latest reminder: Editing the internet’s encyclopedia has never been riskier.

I didn't want to write this.

I don't want to write this.

I feel like I need to write something.

I am writing this.

I am not good at writing about my Jewish experience.

I am still writing this, eight days after I started.

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All those sentences start with

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

Light-hearted note, penned on 15 August 1916, was found on Wharton beach, after severe winter storms washed away sand dunes

Michael and Mary Shelley were glamorous Sydney socialites, who became Christian fanatics and kidnappers. Three of their children - Steven, John and Hannah - were secretly placed into foster care with my parents, Lenore and Tom Blaine. The Shelleys were apocalyptically irritated to discover that the children of God had been fostered by working-class Queensland…

Laudable! Let's take a look at some of the changes that arise from this, through a simple case study: making an international phone call to a relative.

Before abolishing time zones I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there? Google tells me it is currently...

Dr. Richard Harris, aka ‘Dr. Harry,’ and the Wetmules made the first reported hydrogen (H2) rebreather dive to a depth of 230m/751 ft, in The Pearse Resurgence, New Zealand.

Their quest captured the imagination of the colony and became part of Australia’s foundation narrative. But it was a debacle led by an eccentric man with a poor sense of direction

Since I first read Kristen Roupenian’s viral story, I’ve wondered: How did she know about me?

If there is one takeaway for England from this Ashes tour it should be how cricket thrives in a nation where it is readily and freely available as the dominant summer pastime

The complicated story of James Watson, whose landmark DNA discovery with Francis Crick was later overshadowed by his deeply offensive remarks

<strong>Heather McCormack</strong> was trying to play it cool with Rhodri. Then, 24 hours in a hospital waiting room showed her life was too short

It was one of those nights we wait all year for, the first night where you can go outside without a coat or a sweater. I walked up Lincoln Avenue after an uncommonly good production of Hamlet, and thinking many thoughts about the play. They’d gotten Hamlet right, which is rare enough that I should…

On problematic feminists and what queer people are allowed to read.