Meet Sirje 'Sirla' Joala, cofounder of Sprayprinter. Her wall-scaling robot Albert will make you an advert for $10,000 — but only if it's artistic.

Many times on this blog I've argued that the difference between pure and applied math is motivation. As my graduate advisor used to say, “Applied mathematics is not a subject classification. It's an attitude.” Traditionally there was general agreement regarding…

The KiCad project is proud to announce the release of version 5.1.0. This is the first ever minor version release of KiCad and was developed primarily to resolve compatibility issues with Linux GTK3 and long awaited support for python3.
In addition to the…

Fine-tunable liquid crystals steer the beam electronically—with no moving parts

Nextcloud is the most deployed on-premises file share and collaboration platform. Access & collaborate across your devices. Your data remains under your control.

The biology of mental illness is still a mystery, but practitioners don’t want to admit it.

Today's column from veteran Canadian singer-songwriter Ian Tamblyn is adapted from a speech he gave at a symposium at Trent University.  It's a long read,

Why the Days Seem Shorter as We Get Older - Volume 27 Issue 2

At Repl.it we live and breathe making software creation easier. With our programming environment, you could start coding in your favorite language in seconds.…

Create realistic voice overs for blogs, videos, podcasts and more from your content using AI text-to-speech software.

Inside Iraq's most notorious prison, an Army interrogator came face to face with a shocking truth about the war—and himself

CVE-2019-5418 - File Content Disclosure on Ruby on Rails - mpgn/CVE-2019-5418

Everything you need to look like a venture capitalist. Every order comes with a Patagonia Vest

We sat down with Jay Simons, President of Atlassian, to get an inside look at their unique high-velocity, low touch sales mode.

Rust has a perception of being a very difficult language to learn. I had a similar experience, but just as...

Before our kids learned to talk, I would play tickles with them. I would make tickling gestures as I moved towards them, they would start giggling a little, then I would tickle them and they would laugh. We'd continue until they seemed to be done with the…

Updated 2021-06-10

Eric Weinstein is a mathematician, economist, physicist, and managing director of Thiel Capital. He formed the “intellectual dark web” which is a loosely assembled group of public intellectuals including Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson, Steven Pinker, Joe Rogan…

From Captain Cook onwards, the western world has been puzzled by how the vast Pacific could have been navigated relying only on the stars