Heatwaves sizzled around the world from the US south and the north of Africa to China and Antarctica

Mental health issues among Ph.D. students are prevalent and on the rise, with multiple studies showing that Ph.D. students are more likely to experience symptoms of mental health-related issues than the general population. However, the data is still sparse.…

Explaining what's wrong with modern software development by allegory.

No one has ever written a FactoryFactoryFactory and deployed it to production, right? This article takes a look at some real Java mishaps.

An Essential Piece to Your Life Resume

Are you sure you even know what your problem is?

In this paper, we describe the research on how perceptual load can affect programming performance in people with symptoms of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). We asked developers to complete the Barkley Deficits in Executive Functioning Scale…

Talk about the circle of life. It is here. It is there. It is everywhere.

Polyhedral splines is an Blender add-on that can convert quad-dominant mesh into piecewise B-spline patches, and enables artists to edit the shape in real-time.

In eight new papers, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational waves (NANOGrav) presents evidence for a gravitational wave background. In this bite, we provide an overview of their results and their implications

One of the most valuable experiments I ever ran was intentionally practicing the skill of making close friends, and this directly led to most of my friends today. This post is the story of that experiment, and distills the lessons learned

John Higgs on the decision to become a full-time writer.

A thinking trap for those of us who are analytical.

On today’s episode of Being Well, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, the author of The Body Keeps the Score, joins @RickHanson and I to explore how trauma keeps us stuck, and how we can use imagination, self-expression, and creativity to break away from those old…

This 100-year-old binary classification of human interaction holds us back. It's time to move past it.

A real-world dataset, with hyper-accurate digital counterpart & comprehensive ground-truth annotation

Human Shader, computing a shader image by hand

I wrote recently about the turmoil in the field of higher-temperature superconductors, but little did I know what was coming. Yesterday two preprints appeared on the rXiv site, the first bearing the attention-getting noscript “The First Room-Temperature Ambient…

Yesterday we had a super fun meetup here at Intercom in Dublin.  We split up into small discussion groups and talked about things related to managing teams and being a senior individual contributor…