Freud’s notion of a dark, libidinous unconscious is obsolete. A new theory holds that the brain produces a continuous stream of unconscious predictions

If you’ve never tried to debug or figure out a Wayland program, you might not get much out this. If you do hack on Wayland, (especially if you work with custom protocols or compositors) keep reading. I have a present I think you’ll like. Terminology Feel…

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Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web. Contribute to orbitdb/orbitdb development by creating an account on GitHub.

Headlines suggest that the epigenetic marks of trauma can be passed from one generation to the next. But the evidence, at least in humans, is circumstantial at best.

In this post I dig into planning, and how it is a fundamental part of what makes a game engaging. Planning affects many aspects of what is s...

Of all the archives I worked with when writing The Visioneers, none was more intriguing than the collection of Robert A. Heinlein’s papers. Heinlein’s death a quarter-century ago couple…

Historical papers removed from public view by Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

Juul just got a $2 billion dividend payment from its new investor Altria. It decided to give that money to employees.

Should software engineers unionize? I can’t give a simple answer to this. There are advantages and disadvantages to enrolling in a collective bargaining arrangement. If the disadvantages didn…

The U.S. has added 10,000 of these budget retail outlets since 2001. But some towns and cities are trying to push back.