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What is it about useless machines that makes them so attractive to build? After all, they’re meant to be low-key enraging. At this point, the name of the game is more about giving that faceless enemy ...

We all know what it means to procrastinate, but what about actively spending time building a useless machine? You have undoubtedly seen the ornamental boxes with a tempting little toggle switch on the ...

The World Wide Web has had a huge impact on our lives today. Be it blogs, social media, or YouTube, the Internet has the power to shape politics, society in a way that no one ever was able to ...

Having played games for most of her life, Madie Bostwick has evolved from a fan to an expert on all her favorites. When it comes to the Pokémon franchise specifically, she's caught them all, and then ...

Many animals are wrongly labelled useless based on human convenience. However, science reveals every creature has a crucial ecological purpose. From sloths spreading seeds to mosquitoes pollinating, ...

IN conversation with a learned friend lately, our talk ran on various definitions of culture, and on the fact that for one reason or another we found them all unsatisfactory. This led us to ponder the ...

There are several mobs that players can interact with in Minecraft. While some mobs like villagers and wandering traders offer players in-game currency and valuable items through trade, other hostile ...

Some human body parts have become useless over the past few million years. These include wisdom teeth, the tail bone, and the muscle fibers that produce goose bumps. Take a look at nine body parts ...

Smarter artificial intelligence is one of 21st century’s most dire threats, writes Yuval Noah Harari in follow-up to Sapiens It is hard to miss the warnings. In the race to make computers more ...