When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the clashes of ask culture and guess culture, at home and at work.

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in special relativity, the visual distortion of the appearance of a passing object moving at relativistic speeds

Languages around the world differ greatly in how many grammatical distinctions they make. This variation is observable even between closely related languages. The speakers of Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian, ...

A 5,200-year-old pottery bowl discovered in Shahr-e Sukhteh (Burnt City), Iran has five sequential images painted around it that seem to sho...

The great composers knew how to build with sound, from the simplest tunes to works fit for cathedrals. Tune in and I think you’ll see what I mean.

The great thing about measuring developer productivity is that you can quickly identify the bad programmers. I want to tell you about the worst programmer I know, and why I fought to keep him in the team.

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This is a video about some of the many times we have nearly blown up the world. Head over to
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Going to the movies used to be a somewhat different experience than it is today: people wandered into a theater at any point in a film and would just watch until it looped back around when they came in. From a piece in the Hollywood Reporter:

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Population exposure to the synthetic chemical Bisphenol A (BPA), which is used in everything from plastic and metal food containers to reusable water bottles and drinking water pipes in Europe is well above acceptable health safety levels, according to updated…

Chromebooks are getting 10 years of automatic updates, plus new features to help devices last longer.

Dealing with spam the fun way.

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The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, one of humanity’s most coveted accolades, is made public Follow here for the latest.