In the 1920s, USSR scientists investigated “biological radio communications,” more popularly known as telepathy.

SGS developed a new simulation for a plausible escalating war between the United States and Russia using realistic nuclear force postures, targets and fatality estimates. It is estimated that there would be more than 90 million people dead and injured within…

oh my god amsterdam looks *incredibly* realistic in the new call of duty — almost can’t believe this is a video game

Tetris is a classic time-waster, both in and outside of the office. What good is any computing device if it can’t play this game? Tokyo System House certainly thought so, and ported it to the NEC mini5 line of CP/M-based word processors. Let’s preserve it…

Yet another programming blog. Thoughts on software and related misadventures.

Two new books show that movement helps us see the rhythms we all share—whether in the angular works of Martha Graham or in the natural choreographies of daily life.

Global science research serves the needs of the Global North, and is driven by the values and interests of a small number of companies, governments and funding bodies, finds a major new international study published today. As such, the authors find, science…

Diversifying the student body remains an elusive goal

A U.S. judge in Texas ruled on Friday that people killed in two Boeing 737 MAX crashes are legally considered "crime victims," a designation that will determine what remedies should be imposed.

Most difficult archery record ever made!
The purpose of my officially controlled record attempt, was to try make a record that could be compared to the heroic shots of historical super archers?

The record attempt was filmed with four cameras from different…

Only nine months after I suggested Tailwind might someday hit an unpleasant inflection point, that may now be happening.

First open-source data discovery and observability platform. We make a life for data practitioners easy so you can focus on your business. - opendatadiscovery/odd-platform

This post is an attempt to explain the incremental parsing algorithm aretext uses for syntax highlighting.
Like the rest of aretext, parsers are implemented in Go for portability and performance. Most people do not consider Go a functional programming language;…

PipeWire Graph Qt GUI Interface

Urban growth around 4,600 years ago, near what is now southern Iraq, occurred on marshy outposts that lacked a city center.