This is part of One Nation Under Booze, a celebration of 250 years of alcohol-soaked American history. Read all of the series here. What drink deserves to be considered the Great American Cocktail?

At Mount Vernon, America’s first ex-president distilled whiskey from rye, corn, and barley, and brandy from apples, peaches, and persimmons. There were many distilleries in Virginia, and his was among ...

Madison-based tech platform eliminates app downloads, allowing wedding guests to instantly contribute to an AI-sorted ...

From the generic hipster cafe to the ‘Instagram wall’, the internet has pushed us towards a kind of global ubiquity – and this phenomenon is only going to intensify For most of the 2010s, I was a ...

Charles Thompson—aka Black Francis, aka Frank Black—has been somewhat active in recent years with the Pixies, sans Kim Deal, of course. Whether he’s adding to or damaging the band’s legacy depends on ...

If you’re under the impression that something as simple as sorting numbers is dull, think again. This visualization lets you see and hear fifteen different algorithms sift their way through a jumbled ...

Is it possible today? Sorting out the babble from multiple conversations is popularly known as the “cocktail party problem,” and researchers have made many inroads toward solving it in the past 10 ...