In Anton Chekhov’s famous play, The Three Sisters, Masha, one of the sisters, complains that knowing three languages is a needless luxury in a small, unsophisticated town. She compares it to something ...

Sometimes I think the true marker of a modern society is the presence of tons of things that are, in essence, useless. I mean, if we have so many ultimately nonfunctional items cluttering up our lives ...

Last week, we rounded up websites where you can take free college classes and learn all sorts of serious stuff. But maybe you could care less about biology, computational investing or how to code with ...

If the fact that your watch just isn't smart enough is starting to stress you out, you may want to have a look at the Internet of Useless things. It's a project designed to highlight how sometimes ...