Washington Post »
Washington Post: She was the last American to collect a Civil War pension —$73.13 a month. She just died.
By Ian Shapira: “The check arrived every month: $73.13. Irene Triplett, who lived in a North Carolina nursing home, rarely talked about the source of the money. She was the last American to receive
Read More »
Washington Post: Google just mastered a game that vexed scientists — and their machines — for decades
By Matt McFarland January 27 “Artificial intelligence took a historic step forward Wednesday when a Google team announced that it taught a machine to master the ancient Chinese game Go, a feat researchers have
Read More »
Washington Post: Monopoly is changing again–and some parents are not going to like it
By Lindsey Bever February 19 “Remember when true success was measured by the height of your Monopoly cash stack? These days, it’s calculated with your credit score. In an attempt to keep the classic board game relevant to our
Read More »
Washington Post: Re-creating the Battle of Waterloo, with 250,000 six-millimeter-tall toy soldiers
By Tom Dunkel Flowers are in full spring bloom outside Bruce Weigle’s Alexandria home, but inside it’s the dead of winter: January 1871 to be exact. Weigle is refereeing a step-back-in-time battle from the
Read More »
Washington Post: How Nicky and Willy could have prevented WWI
By Graham Allison Graham Allison is director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School. One hundred years ago this week, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm
Read More »
