Some people slander retrocomputing as an old man’s game, just because most of those involved are more ancient than the hardware they’re playing with. But there are veritable children ...

Each week we profile an independent bookstore, discovering what makes each one special and getting their expert book recommendations. This week we have Pete Mulvihill, owner of Green Apple Books in ...

Wisconsin Public Radio Wausau’s Marathon County Historical Society will host a public talk this month exploring Wisconsin’s ...

When Ron Smith walked into UNC’s Wilson Library, he wasn’t looking for a passion project. He was looking for a distraction.

Over the spring semester, prestigious national and international organizations recognized Brown faculty for their research, ...

The bookshelf problem (which computer scientists call the “list labeling” problem) is one of the most basic topics in the field of data structures. “It’s the kind of problem you’d teach to freshman or ...

On July 18, the Senate will vote on a bill, which the House has already approved, that would defund public media outlets like NPR.

A deep dive on gossip. Revolutionary history. A meditation on muscle. A closer look at the color blue. And memoirs galore. There's something for everyone on this nonfiction summer reading list.

From miniskirts to mainframe computers, discover fascinating history featured in Grantchester Season 10’s 1962 storyline.

In 1958, McCarthy specified LISP, the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today (only Fortran is older by one year). The full form of Lisp is List Processing. Like Fortran, ...

The BASIC programming language was first released on May 1, 1964. This was after John George Kemeny (born as János György Kemény) (1926–1992), chairman of the Dartmouth College Mathematics Department, ...

With NPR under threat, a colorful new history shows why it matters Steve Oney’s engaging and deeply reported “On Air” follows NPR from its beginnings in the early 1970s to tens of millions ...