Two thousand years ago, a young Cilician named Oppian, wanting to rehabilitate his disgraced father, decided to write Halieutica, an account of the world of fishes, as a gift for Marcus Aurelius. It was a mixture of possible fact and definite fiction – if…

Designer Molecules Activate Select Pathway of the Psychedelic Receptor 5HT2a

NYU professor Jonathan Haidt is resigning an academic association after attempts to force diversity statements into his work.

This is a guest post from Jen Weber. Enjoy. Dear new developer, Welcome! I’m so glad you are here. We need your help to build accessible apps, inclusive engineering teams, and incredible products. …

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The first map of the "galactic underworld"—a chart of the corpses of once massive suns that have since collapsed into black holes and neutron stars—has revealed a graveyard that stretches three times ...

In this post we'll work our way towards an algorithm that can compute convex polygon intersections. We'll also a method for intersections between axis-aligned rectangles, a function that can determine the intersection of two line segments, as well as a point…

Many are well aware of the hazards of race conditions. But what about the benefits?

A Capsule application is a runner (or launcher) of wasm functions. Capsule HTTP can serve the functions through HTTP (it’s possible to use Capsule as a simple CLI with Capsule CLI). And soon: NATS ...

So you want to shoot lasers from your eyes, hmm?