As early as the 1790s, doctors, scientists and other specialists sought to plumb the expanses of their minds through psychoactive drug use in pursuit of better knowledge of their chosen substances’ effects. On these quests, self-experimentation was long regarded…

The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose sense you're unsure of. You would never look up an ordinary word -- like example, or sport, or magic -- because all you'll learn is what it means, and that…

New reports highlight the success of the Da Vinci surgical robot in a procedure that humans couldn't have pulled off alone.

Vale is a command-line tool that brings code-like linting to prose. Vale is cross-platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux), written in Go, and available on GitHub.

Internet Storm Center Diary 2024-08-19, Author: Johannes Ullrich

Proposed safety limits for a toxic pesticide used on salmon farms have been made 23 times weaker after behind-the-scenes pressure from the industry.

Short article slash rant discussing the Got it! button in a prompt for personalized Web experience in Microsoft Edge, covering user experience interruption, bad design, aggressive marketing, implicit decisions, other annoyances, and more

I was testing Tesla’s latest Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta update last night (v11.4.7), and a new aggressive bug has nearly...

Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID-19?

The Postal Service is offering salary advances via money order as a workaround

Extract an RSS feed from iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Youtube, a blog and many more

How did a six second drum sample go on to inspire entire sub-genres of music? Let's examine the history of the Amen Break.

Last year, Google preemptively blocked hundreds of millions of URLs before they were indexed by the search engine.

A deep dive into the theoretical framework and the technical implementation of a text CRDT.

How to write correct code by construction using the Coq Proof Assistant

How Historians (and Others) Make Themselves Stupid

Stoker was moved by grim details from the world around him while penning his horror masterpiece. The real fate of a ship called the Dmitry played an outsized role in his imaginings.

Foxconn is selling two buildings in Wisconsin, which have remained mostly empty since they were originally purchased for its plans to bring production to the US.