They were supposed to be on a break. Filmmaker Christian Yamane and his producers were working on a film and agreed to take a step back from that project for about a month. “But I didn’t really feel ...

Should a country financially support its artists? That’s the question that Ireland sought to answer with a pilot program that ran between 2022 and 2025, during which the government provided 2,000 ...

Abstract: With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and visual programming technologies, digital interactive project development has entered a new stage. This paper first introduces the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Learn three quick and visual pen tricks that require no special props and only a bit of practice. From vanishes to transformations, these illusions show how everyday objects can create moments of real ...

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

This feature demonstrates three visual card tricks that rely on clarity and presentation rather than complex sleight of hand. Designed to be approachable for beginners, each illusion is broken down in ...

When students dig into a poem for the first time, they don’t always recognize the playfulness that poets use in their language, making it harder for students to get excited about what they are reading ...

Anna Theoktisto is a recipe tester and developer. Anna has been working in People Inc. test kitchens since 2017, and her recipes and writing have appeared in over 10 nationally distributed print ...

Entrepreneurs go down dead ends in business. They hit walls, become frustrated, and their emotions get the better of them. They give up and find another business. Or worse; they get a job. Unless you ...