Tell us why the trumpet player and bandleader was one of music’s most innovative forces, and you’ll be entered to win a copy of the 70-CD box set Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection,…

So much for “Do No Evil”…

Giz friend Adam Savage, in our estimation, can make just about anything. Here he explains the path he took to turn a toy gun into an astoundingly sharp Blade Runner pistol replica.

I made my…

For years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we’ve been doing it…

The Shannon number? Skewes’ number? Graham’s number? Please. When you’re ready to get serious, here are some truly large numbers. (previously, but with dead links)

“Sometimes the light’s all shining on me. Other times, I can
barely see,” he is saying, using an old Grateful Dead lyric. “But
to be … back in the game of life at such a dynamic
time… is really…

The European Parliament is fed up with the secrecy surrounding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Today, representatives from all the major parliamentary coalitions…

Stephen Barrett, a retired psychiatrist in Chapel Hill, N.C., who operates the Web site Quackwatch, a health-care consumer-advocacy network, agrees. ”The odds are pretty close to zero that people…

Weddings are an occasion never to be forgotten, especially when the bride and groom both come from noble origins.

Consider, for instance, the New Delhi wedding of Indian parliament member Kadir…

The California Highway Patrol has confirmed officers were forced to box-in a runaway Toyota Prius displaying unintended acceleration Monday afternoon. The incident took place around 2:00 p.m., a…

Amoeba Records is one of the world’s greatest independent record stores, with many thousands of square feet of new and used vinyl, CDs, DVDs, and assorted rarities in film and music….

Don’t forget to schedule your mammogram.