Sargablock is a construction material made from sargassum seaweed, brown algae that washes up on Caribbean beaches and costs a fortune to the tourism industry. Interest has spread from Mexico to countries around the Caribbean and beyond.

Use the Abbrev module in Ruby's standard library to calculate all possible unique abbreviations of one or more strings.

The FBI doesn’t believe that either our rights or the limitations that Congress has placed upon them matter when it comes to the vast amount of information about us collected under FISA Section 702.

When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the clashes of ask culture and guess culture, at home and at work.

Objective To evaluate the effect of protracted low dose, low dose rate exposure to ionising radiation on the risk of cancer.

Design Multinational cohort study.

Setting Cohorts of workers in the nuclear industry in France, the UK, and the US included in…

When I took over the team, they were in month 8 of a 3-month project to relaunch the company's ecommerce website. After 2 months leading the team, I decided to scrap it and start over. This is the story of how and why, and whether it all worked out.

su allows one user to temporarily become another user. It runs a command (often an interactive shell) with the real and effective user id, group id, and supplemental groups of a given user. Synopsis:

Forensic genetic genealogists skirted GEDmatch privacy rules by searching users who explicitly opted out of sharing DNA with police.

An Intel patent describes an interesting technique that could spell the end for Hyper-Threading.

Some of the most famous space missions have been running for decades. The technology helping to keep them aloft is anything but space age.

In 2021, the Wikimedia Foundation announced the first grants of a "Knowledge Equity Fund" created in June of the previous year. This involved about a million dollars of WMF funds being given, in the form of grants, to a number of external charitable and advocacy…

Nature - The planet has warmed 1.2 ºC on average, but that’s enough to produce big extremes.

Companies bragging about their climate goals are ending remote work and forcing employees back to the office, which will exacerbate global warming.

For an industry that doesn’t do it for the money, we sure talk about money an awful lot in the world of startups.

Despite having the world's most powerful passport, 35 percent of Japanese people say they plan never to travel again.