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The Evolution of Money, From Feathers to Credit Cards

Coin collectors, and trinket lovers welcome back the National Numismatic Collections to its splendid new gallery at the American History Museum

July 15, 2015

The first $10 Federal Reserve Note featured Andrew Jackson.

The controversial president’s face has only been on $20 bills since 1928

June 18, 2015

Cool Finds

New ATMs in China Recognize Your Face

Facial-recognition cash machines were designed to cut down on fraud

June 2, 2015

New Research

Will Your Doctor One Day Pay You?

New research shows that incentive-based health programs really do work

May 19, 2015

New Research

Nine Out of Ten Americans Consider Themselves Middle Class

In a day and age when teens are tasked with picking multimillion dollar dream homes, it’s not hard to see why

April 13, 2015

Commemorate the storied document's 800th anniversary with a few special accessories.

The Ridiculous World of Magna Carta Kitsch

Throughout the United Kingdom, retailers are going mad over an 800-year-old document

March 10, 2015

What Is Bitcoin, Exactly?

A new book tells the backstory and provides an easy-to-understand explanation of the much buzzed-about cryptocurrency

January 27, 2015

United States Internal Revenue Service "bottle stamp"

Museums Are Now Able to Digitize Thousands of Artifacts in Just Hours

At the American History Museum, a collection of rarely seen historic currency proofs are being made ready for a public debut

January 14, 2015

The ATM is Dead. Long Live the ATM!

Usage is on the decline – so why are banks looking to the machines to save them?

January 8, 2015

Some of the game’s early tokens doubled as prizes in Cracker Jack boxes.

Monopoly Was Designed to Teach the 99% About Income Inequality

The story you’ve heard about the creation of the famous board game is far from true

January 2015

Cool Finds

MIT Is Giving Its Students Bitcoin

Researchers interested in studying how people use Bitcoin are handing out $100 worth of the currency to whoever wants it

December 3, 2014

San Francisco’s retail staff will have more stable hours and the possibility to work overtime

November 28, 2014

Your reward: a spot in a digital time capsule buried beneath the lunar surface

November 19, 2014

Cool Finds

Great Britain Still Has Significant Debt From World War I

The U.K. is committing itself to paying off a small fraction of that debt next year by issuing new debt

November 4, 2014

A pixelated design by the architecture firm Snøhetta will soon grace Norway's money.

Architects and Designers Make Money for Norway

Literally, that is. Two firms have been selected to design Norway’s new currency.

November 3, 2014

New Research

Arts Degrees: Not Entirely Worthless

Recent graduates of arts degrees report high job satisfaction and employment numbers

October 17, 2014

Liberian nurses carry a dead body suspected of dying from the Ebola virus at the Roberts field highway on the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, 25 September 2014.

Trending Today

Now We’re Crowdfunding Ebola Research?

One leading Ebola researcher is turning to the crowd for more funding

October 14, 2014

The long-running carbon dioxide monitoring program got a $500,000 grant from the Schmidts

September 8, 2014

An eBay-owned company—that runs payments systems for AirBnB & Uber—is thinking about accepting Bitcoin

August 22, 2014

Cool Finds

College Students Are Now Paying Extra to Learn Actually Useful Skills

Companies, unaffiliated with universities, are offering courses that provide practical workforce training

July 8, 2014