Learning

As states begin incorporating coding classes into school curriculum, some are suggesting that programming languages like Java and Python may be the new Spanish. Are they right?

So far no one has discovered the Master Algorithm that can reap and sort all knowledge, but not for want of trying. A new book details the hunt for the modern philosopher’s stone.

We are taught that copying other people’s art is bad and that self-expression is great. Good advice for great artists. For the rest of us, not so much.

Intel’s She Will campaign empowers girls and women around the world by fostering equal economic and educational opportunities.

In this chilling video from BBC's Inside Out, host Ray Gosling admits to smothering his AIDS-stricken lover with a pillow, a fact the Guardian recently learned Gosling's friends had known for years. In the latest development to this strange case, Gosling was arrested Wednesday and questioned for over nine hours.

In Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar, James Marcus Bach reveals how he became a wunderkind Apple engineer with only an eighth-grade education.