This systematic review investigated whether the insulin sensitiser metformin has a geroprotective effect in humans. Pubmed and Embase were searched along with databases of unpublished studies. Eligible research investigated the effect of metformin on all…

Physicists have proved that a subatomic particle can switch into its antiparticle alter-ego and back again, in a new discovery revealed today. An extraordinarily precise measurement made by Oxford

This paper from Facebook (Arxiv Feb 2021) is referred in the Google fail-silent Corruption Execution Errors (CEEs) paper as the most relat...

As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen. Will the quest for secular redemption through politics doom the American idea?

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"Who green lit putting the Files app above Dropbox"

The F.B.I.’s recovery of Bitcoins paid in the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack showed cryptocurrencies are not as hard to track as it might seem.

"Software seems 'large' and 'complicated' for what it does". I keep coming back to this quote by Alan Kay. The same feeling has been na...

the average California homeowner made more money in equity last year than the average California worker made in income. seems bad imo, but it's no wonder private equity is trying to get into the market-it's quite profitable! twitter.com/heidigroover/s…

A reflection on assumptions & product failure

The pretend code on the laptop screen in the stock photo at developer.bbc.com is user-editable. twitter.com/JillWohlner/st…

In honor of the 10th anniversary of launching Twitch, I thought I’d share some of the lessons I learned along the way. Each of these insights could probably be expanded into an essay, of course. Like the ones you would want me to expand on in the future.

Roger Waters was offered "a large amount of money" to allow the use of "Another Brick in the Wall - Part II” to promote a film about Instagram.

Waters detests vehemently Zuckerberg's censorship. The tech giant prevents the story of Julian Assange…

A legible monospace font... the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood - dtinth/comic-mono-font

UCSF scientists who identified the only human gene known to promote “natural short sleep” have discovered a second. 

I want to say a few words about my current adventure. I joined the Fuchsia project at its inception and worked on the daunting task of buil...

Sister Mary Joseph gave the end of her life to God but her first 60 years were far from traditional.

Learn about Taildrop, the first test of an experimental p2p app discovery layer in Tailscale. Understand why it was so easy to build, and how it works for large files.

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