CORVALLIS, Ore. – By tapping nutrients from bedrock, red alder trees play a key role in healthy forest ecosystems, according to a new study. The study published today in the journal Proceedings of

At the last Globo.com’s hackathon, Lucas Costa and I built a simple Lua library to provide a distributed rate measurement system that depends on Redis and run embedded in Nginx but before we …

Reservations are now open for guests wishing to stay at Eero Saarinen's 1960s terminal building at New York's John F Kennedy airport.

You’ve probably noticed: Design has become central for many businesses that might have once considered it an afterthought. Indeed, with sales and marketing so thoroughly optimized at this point — and companies wondering how else to trounce the competition…

This article will try to convince you that adding some limitations on legal Unix/Linux/POSIX filenames would be an improvement. Many programs already presume these limitations, the POSIX standard already permits such limitations, and many Unix/Linux filesystems…

A growing number of neuroscientists believe that sleep not only helps cement memories, but is actually a time to learn something new.

Recently, I started a new project using Scala/Spark. The project runs on the AWS EMR infrastructure and data science investigations are performed in Zeppelin notebooks hosted on S3. We review all our data science deliverables and it quickly became clear that…

For the centennial of the great Russian's birth, critic and piano maven Steve Wigler recalls a herculean talent who shook Carnegie Hall to its foundation.

You can draw a line from the tiny toys to Apple Inc.

A set of stairs may have never caused so much trouble in an aircraft.

Some people are calling the 737MAX tragedies a #software failure. Here's my response: It's not a software problem. It was an * Economic problem that the 737 engines used too much fuel, so they decided to install more efficient engines with bigger fans and…

Paul Dean explores the surface joys of Stardew Valley and reflects on life, labour and love

Collection of useful Rust code examples

Norway has become the first country to ban deforestation. The Norwegian Parliament pledged May 26 that the government's public procurement policy will be deforestation-free.
Any product that contributes to deforestation will not be used in the Scandinavian…

Simply holding meritocracy as a value seems to promote discriminatory behavior.