I recently read “Adventure Time: Volume 1”, a comic book based on the smart animated series of the same name. In the comic, I found some odd looking messages at the …

Number 26, Teddy Roosevelt, holds two crowns. He was the youngest person to assume the US presidency, and the most badass of them all. He did many things to earn that second noscript, but none of them featured a drunken spree in Nairobi that nearly caused a…

21 November 2020 The story goes that all spiral* staircases in castles turn clockwise so that primarily right-handed defenders, fighting downwards, would have an advantage over attackers whose weapon would be impeded by the newel post. It is a particular…

For six decades, beavers were unwelcome in Vancouver. Now, they’re taking up residence across the urban core. But can we make this relationship work?

Generate sandboxes for C/C++ libraries automatically - google/sandboxed-api

Starting in August 2019 I took part in the Replication Markets project, a part of DARPA's SCORE program whose goal is to predict which social science papers will successfully replicate.

This post is from my talk at Y Combinator's Aspiring Founders Forum.

There was a famous Apple ad campaign in the late 90s with the slogan "Think Different." This is something you’re going to have...

Executive Mandates driving Product Execution via Project Management

Scholars knew the work about Guillaume d’Orange and the bloody siege of his city existed, but until now believed it had been lost completely

elfshaker stores binary objects efficiently. Contribute to elfshaker/elfshaker development by creating an account on GitHub.

Proposed replacement for /dev/random promises to double performance and add flexibility

Pangea Aerospace, a company from Barcelona (Spain), has fired several times the first MethaLox aerospike engine in the world in their first try, at DLR Lampoldshausen facilities.The company has reached a major milestone for rocket propulsion, after the success…

New research provides evidence of "clear, consistent, and large discrimination" against men in female-dominated occupations in Sweden. The study indicates ...

China has pressured major U.S. companies not to cross its red lines.

Surveillance technology is the surrogate for the communities Western capitalism has destroyed.

Ebou Janha, 102, is the only surviving veteran of a regiment of Gambian soldiers who fought for the British in Burma.

The IPv4 unicast extensions project - Making class-e (240/4), 0/8, 127/8, 225/8-232/8 generally usable - adding 419 million new IPs to the world, and fixing various other slightly broken pieces of...

Nature - The successful in-orbit operation of an electric space propulsion system based on iodine, rather than the more expensive and difficult-to-store xenon, is demonstrated.