True learning can only happen on campuses where academic freedom is paramount — within and outside the classroom.

The long-awaited nomination statistics for the 2023 Hugo Awards have finally been published – at the last possible moment according to the WSFS constitution (and at a point when I really don&…

IBM's SAA and CUA brought harmony to software design… until everyone forgot

NASA’s history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and making dozens more flights than

The Uncomfortable is a collection of deliberately inconvenient everyday objects by Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani.

I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be purely geometric attack directions

Proto.life interviews law professor and ethicist Nita Farahany and techno-humanist Aza Raskin at the BrainMind Summit.

🔰If CRDTs are new to you, here are some introductory links.
- An interactive intro to CRDTs
[https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/]
- An introduction to state-based CRDTs
[https://www.bartoszsypytkowski.com/the-state-of-a-state-based…

A trio of chemists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, working with a colleague from the University of Western Ontario, has tied the smallest knot ever, using just ...

Several gene therapies aim to restore a protein necessary for transmitting sound signals from the ear to the brain.

A RAG LLM co-pilot for browsing the web, powered by local LLMs - andrewnguonly/Lumos

Traditionalist and modernist architecture are both mass-produced, industrial and international. Is there an alternative?

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A geothermal energy and lithium extraction plant is starting construction in the Imperial Valley.

A deep dive into investigating and reducing the flutter distortion on the soundtrack of Steamboat Willie (1928).

The weirdest old-school text adventure on the internet.

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

The study, led by Canadian federal scientists, adds to other research that found Alberta's oil sands were underreporting climate changing carbon emissions.