Semaphore atop Adobe’s San Jose headquarters. Photo via Adobe News For over four-and-a-half years, the semaphore code atop Adobe’s headquarters in San Jose had the world’s geek sect stumped. Well, ...

For most of humanity’s existence, communication has been incredibly slow. For millennia the only way of transmitting information between two humans was via speech or crude drawings. About 5,000 years ...

In today’s digital age, where communication is primarily conducted through smartphones and computers, the ancient visual communication system known as – Semaphore may seem obsolete. However, semaphore ...

Well into the age of email, we’re used to lightning quick communication. Waving around old flags looks pretty silly now. But this method of signaling was once built into a revolutionary communication ...

Rolls-Royce automobiles, though, have never been shrinking violets. The automaker has been amenable to bespoke commissions from the very beginning, some of which have been remarkable in the extreme.

Jimmy Waters teaches high school math in Knoxville, Tennessee. Over the summer, he started reading Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49. As it happens, the novel was also the source of the secret ...