Late last week came this report in Science about doctored images in a series of very influential papers on amyloid and Alzheimer’s disease. That’s attracted a lot of interest, as well it should, and as a longtime observer of the field (and onetime researcher…

U.S.- German auto parts company ZF has engineered a strut suspension front axle concept called EasyTurn, and it allows the front wheels to turn up to an incredible 80 degrees.

In 2021, I built my own floating-point interpreter system on my PERSEUS-8 computer. However, this system required a serial terminal for input/output, which was somewhat inconvenient to use for programming and calculation whenever I wanted. Therefore, I have…

Run, share, and edit Python notebooks

High-level strategies to keep software simple as it evolves over time.

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of road dust on human health. A PubMed search was used to extract references that included the words “road dust” and “health” or “fugitive dust” and ...

The dream of owning a home is increasingly out of reach. Democratic and authoritarian governments alike are struggling with the consequences.

I remember feeling derisive about marketing as a young techie — it wasn’t creating the value. Nowadays, I often marvel at how much amazing value is present that people just don’t know about. If only there was a way to bring it to their attention…

The leap second concept was first introduced in 1972 by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) in an attempt to periodically update Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) d…

A venture capitalist called Equal Ventures just says it straight-up, we seek to invest in monopolization.

The Creative
Commons CC0 license is essentially a public-domain declaration (or as
close as is possible in jurisdictions that lack a public domain). The
Fedora project has allowed the distribution of code under this license,
but, as announced
by Richard…

No one has been able to farm the rare, expensive fungus on a commercial scale – until now

Modern game controllers can point in a wide range of directions. Game designers sometimes want to convert the joystick direction to get 8-directional movement. A typical solution offered is to compute the angle, round it up and then compute back the direction…

I’ve learned a lot about building startups over the past few years, and have become much more opinionated on how to do it well. I spent the last 2 years at Clubhouse, where my learning was supercharged by the caliber of our team, the rate of growth, and the…

Further confirmation that drivers are of the utmost importance.