According to his memoirs, Eugène-François Vidocq escaped from more than twenty prisons (sometimes dressed as a nun). Working on the other side of the law, he apprehended some 4000 criminals with a team of plainclothes agents. He founded the first criminal…

A new book by Stewart D. Friedman, founding director of the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project, reveals the surprising results of a 20-year study into men’s and women’s changing views on work and family.…Read More

Discover where the quietest places are in the loudest cities in the world, from Boston (USA) to Edinburgh (UK) and Vienna (Europe).

Immich License Changes ImportantImmich is switching from MIT to the AGPLv3 License. We are changing the license to protect Immich, its community, and the effort the contributors have put in to deve...

The Mana World is a free MMORPG game for Linux, MacOS and Windows

The smell of fresh pine sawdust filled the air, with more floating up as I
sanded the last rough corner of the stool. My toddler was happily sanding her
own block off to the side.

Woodworking was a new hobby I'd picked up. My old ones, coding, reading,
writing…

My vote: no.

Discover semiconductor fabrication's secrets in a free online course by Purdue University, in collaboration with Intel, the University of Texas at Austin, and industry leaders. Tailored for students and professionals, delve into digital age building blocks…

Usborne children's coding books for a new generation

End of the (Spec Ops) line.

C/C++ Performance Profiler. Contribute to google/orbit development by creating an account on GitHub.

How did we end up in this place? Thousands – maybe millions? – of developers sit in standup meetings daily and answer the same 3 questions (“What did you do yesterday?”, &#8…

Despite assurances many living near the site of the train accident do not believe their homes are free of pollutants and feel officials are not listening

What the **** does that mean?

If you have even a passing interest in math, i.e., if you see an equation and don’t recoil as if you just spotted a spider moseying up your thigh, then these books are for you.   12 Flatterland by Ian Stewart – 2001 In 1884, Edwin A. Abbott published a brilliant…

Canadian children have fewer cousins than previous generations — a growing trend as the decreasing fertility rate causes extended families to narrow over time, sociologists and demographers say.