Over the summer, the Los Angeles City Council Public Safety Committee approved a proposal to expand Fire District 1, an anachronistic planning overlay that would effectively ban wood-frame construction in much of the city. Superficially premised as a measure…

Space junk in orbit is looking to become our next ecological mess

Networking is painful, and I’m suspicious of anyone who claims to enjoy it. Unfortunately for me, networking is effective.

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We sell dome-shaped buildings using Styrofoam, which is the fourth structural material after wood, iron, and concrete.

Nature - Neuroscientists want to understand how tangles of neurons produce complex behaviours, but even the simplest networks defy understanding.

It's the best reply to questions you wish you weren't asked.

Octopuses, crabs and lobsters will receive greater welfare protection following an LSE report demonstrating they have capacity to experience pain or distress.

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Vehicles from Tesla Inc and electric sport utilities from rival brands are among the least reliable models sold in the United States, a reflection of the risks of new technology, Consumer Reports said on Thursday.

It all started with a meme tweet: Laugh, scroll past, then I started wondering, “what are the chances this obscure opcode is faster than optimized loads?” and I realized I had just been nerd sniped. So I decided to dig up my half-remembered memories of how…

There are infinite worlds to explore.

A stroad is a street/road hybrid. Stroads are dangerous and unproductive, and if we want to build strong towns, we have to eliminate them.

Yeah, so about that OpenPOWER Minimum Viable Product JavaScript JIT for Firefox. This happened (all timings from an unoptimized debug build ...

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TIL the assumption that string length does not change when upper-cased is false!

UPenn HSV2 vaccine candidate embraces mRNA technology

If we bake addressing tech debt into our plans, could it become an opportunity to build abundance into our systems?