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Every day at 5pm the Sifter posts the Picture of the Day. Below you will find a collection of the Sifter's Top 50 from 2011. It's hard to imagine the year is almost over, time seems to fl...

Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is.

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Legal experts predict that federal marriage equality is inevitable, and it will happen sooner than most think.

TED Talks Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica, talks about his quest to make all knowledge computational -- able to be searched, processed and manipulated. His new search engine, Wolfram Alpha, has no lesser goal than to model and explain the phy...

Half of all enterprise IT managers have implemented or plan to implement solid state storage, research shows.

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Rick Santorum greatly overreached when he claimed that Congress required "English be the principal language and that it be taught and spoken universally" in several Southwest territories, Oklahoma and Hawaii as preconditions for them attaining stateh...

There are many unsolved in mathematics. Some prominent outstanding unsolved problems (as well as some which are not necessarily so well known) include