In the late 1990s, computer nerds (myself included) were up in arms about the Y2K problem. In brief, the issue was that many computer systems used six-digit dates (two digits each for day, month, and ...

My girlfriend, Alana, is taking the MCAT this week. That's the standardized test that tells you whether you're smart enough to put yourself, like, a quarter million bucks in debt going to med school.

Two decades ago an existential threat brought the world together— the Y2K bug. In the late 1990s, computers were rapidly transforming how the world worked, but an invisible enemy loomed. A computer ...