Illustration: Christoph Niemann

I want to create a will or living trust to divide up my stuff. Do I have to hire an actual lawyer? Plenty of programs and web services will do it for a song.

When they weren’t busyreading bird entrails, the ancient Greeks wrote some nifty

1999: A disaster investigation board reports that NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter burned up in the Martian atmosphere because engineers failed to convert units from English to metric.

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