“…rhinological adenoids was a disappearing condition and that theoperation for it was seldom needed at the present day and would ultimately follow the amputation of the uvula or the removal of the inferior turbinal into the limbo of forgotten industries.”…

Examine how command palettes regained popularity in modern UI design. A journey from past to present.

San Francisco leaders call for explanation after camera shows thefts at S.F. cannabis...

BGP Scanner from the Isolario project helped researchers analyse routing data, but it had its limitations. Overcoming these has led to the development of the Micro BGP Suite. It provides a variety of tools that, while each simple and efficient in their own…

You most likely have heard that Apple switched from Intel CPUs to their own, ARM-based CPUs.
Various early reviews touted the new MacBooks, among the first devices with the ARM-based M1 CPU, as the best computer ever. This got me curious: after years of not…

Colobot: Gold Edition is a real-time strategy game, where you can program your units (bots) in a language called CBOT, which is similar to C++ and Java. Your mission is to find a new planet to live and survive. You can save the humanity and get programming…

Research has revealed a correlation between being particularly proficient in tool use and having good syntactic ability. A new study has now shown that both skills rely on the same neurological resources, which are located in the same brain region. Furthermore…

Consumer Reports found that herbs and spices might contain arsenic, cadmium, and lead, based on tests of products from McCormick, Whole Foods, and dozens of other big brands.

Remember YouTube5? And a Dinosaur remembers. YouTube5 was a Safari extension back when Flash was still a thing and hated by everyone. It replaced the YouTube player (written in Flash) with an HTML ...

In November 1990 LIFE magazine published a photograph of a young man, his body wasted by AIDS, surrounded by family members as he took his last breaths.

All over the West, a housing crisis is causing workforce shortages, crippling local businesses, and threatening the culture and existence of mountain towns as we know them. But amid the doom and gloom, some people are fighting for solutions.

  As the chlorophyll wanes, now is the heyday of the xanthophylls, carotenoids and anthocyanins. These contain carbon rings and chains whose electrons become delocalized… their wavefunct…

Thanks to recent commits by @ChristianHeimes, I figured out the correct incantations to build CPython's main branch for the web! This is stock Python running *in the browser*. My noscripts to build this are at github.com/ethanhs/python… Lots of work to fix…

T-Mobile has just announced that it will be delaying its CDMA shutdown by a few months.  Originally, T-Mobile planned to shutdown the network by January 1, 2022; which will give partners “plenty of time and resources to take care of their customers as well.”…

Soviet rocket engines - this article is about their history, their development, their use and their rockets.

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