It’s a warm, buggy night in Kfar HaNagid, a coastal village named for Shmuel HaNagid, the eminent poet, scholar, warrior, and statesman of medieval al-Andalus. A mature crowd of several hundred has gathered on...

During his first year as a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, Ren Ng was hurriedly putting together a survey course on computer graphics. In the syllabus he had inherited,...

Johnny Knoxville doesn’t keep track of how many bones he’s broken. When asked for a number earlier this summer, he balked. The notion of accounting struck Knoxville, the star and co-creator of the “Jackass”...