Companies with 100 or more employees will have to start reporting salaries by race, gender, and ethnicity.Today marks the seventh anniversary of President Obama signing his very first bill into law. That was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which restored protection against wage discrimination.Read Full Story

The "entropy" of nonsense words is linked to their funniness, research finds -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

The late Antarctic explorer Henry Worsley was a perfectly closed system skiing across the underbelly of the planet---he might have well have been alone on Mars. The post People Cross Antarctica All the Time. It’s Still Crazy Hard appeared first on WIRED.

Between FTM (first-time mom) and SAHD (stay-at-home dads) is a world of language that can be both welcoming and intimidating.FTM. SAHD. NAK. GOAT.* Are you lost yet? If you don't understand these acronyms it may be because they have been cultivated by a select group of people. Like the cats who popularized cheezeburgers and LOLs or the shiba inu's "dogespeak," which is heavy on the wows, much, and such, parents communicating on the web have created their own slang, replete with abbreviations and hashtags.Read Full Story

In his spare time, D. Allan Drummond, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, fuses art and science to create lifelike trilobite... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

China's biggest smartphone manufacturer comes to the US, but leaves a few key features back home. The post China’s Biggest Phone Maker Comes to the US … With a Caveat appeared first on WIRED.

More bad news for the medical-technology "unicorn."Another day, another snag for Theranos, the blood-testing startup with a $10 billion valuation.Read Full Story

Konnikova studies the art of the con—and what it reveals about every one of us -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com