Seven states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — tapped into the river and unlocked the American West. But their agreement, the 1922 Colorado River Compact…

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Nature - As the physicist’s collected papers reach volume 15, Andrew Robinson sifts through the quotes attributed to him.

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A new study suggests the soundscape could have affected the mental health of 19th-century settlers.

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On paper, it looked like a fantastic deal. In 2017, the Chinese government was offering to spend $100 million to build an ornate Chinese garden at the National Arboretum in Washington DC. Complete with temples, pavilions and a 70-foot white pagoda, the project…

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for an attack on an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam.

As the attack developed, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else:

A massacre.

He…

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As new details about the scope of the sabotage emerge, the perpetrators—and the reason for their vandalism—remain unknown.

Apple has announced that in macOS 10.15 Catalina the default shell will be zsh. In this series, I will document my experiences moving bash settings, configurations, and noscripts over to zsh. Part 1:…

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