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How peak copper arrived and went completely unnoticed

I tried to prepare for life in French-speaking Canada by turning language drills into a Tamagotchi. It worked, as long as you don't ask me whether my coffee is for here or to go.

. John Varley died two days ago on December 10, 2025.  A great many will mourn him as a science fiction writer whose work they enjoyed. But...

The technological race among industry giants and the wave of layoffs they have announced has revived the debate about the advisability of taxing automation

Shen Programming Language

A deep, intuitive dive into why proteins are insanely complex, how folding defines life and disease, and how AI like AlphaFold finally cracked biology’s hardest problem.

The two-time Emmy winner and Oscar nominee and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their Brentwood home. The LAPD says their son Nick, who was arrested and booked for murder, is "responsible" for their deaths.

One of the most iconic C++ features is the language’s ability to deduce types with the auto keyword. In this post, I’ll give a series of code snippits. Your job is to assess what will be deduced for v in each case. Determine for each:

The deduced type
If…

Specialized fonts for students with dyslexia are gaining in popularity. But they’re based on a key misconception, experts warn.

Personal Site Andrew Atkinson. PostgreSQL. Ruby on Rails, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, Vim. Author High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails Pragmatic Programmers

A video that's gotten thousands of views on social media shows the moment a woman discovered a stranger in the back of a Waymo car.

Educational blog posts for Rust beginners. Contribute to pretzelhammer/rust-blog development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Whale songs were first noticed by accident, when analysts tracking Russian submarines at the height of the cold war heard cetacean interference instead. An engineer sent some recordings to Roger Payne, a biologist friend of his, who did something that proved…

A Monochromatic Star

Best read with Danger Zone playing on loop
Like most people, you’re probably an absolute expert at landing on the aircraft carrier in Top Gun for the NES. But if you’re in the silent minority that have not yet mastered this skill, you’re in luck: I’ve done…