Giant azhdarchid pterosaur in flight. Images like this virtually always trigger discussions about the validity of giant pterosaur flight h...

About 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, a book from the MIT Press

Look, I’ve just accepted the fact that I’m never going to turn this Twitter thread into a proper fancy blog post. But it’s a darn useful Twitter thread, and I link to it at least a few times a month. So, it shall have a place here on this blog. Keep in mind…

Recently, we had a long and heated internal discussion about the licensing model of Handsontable. We noticed that building a sustainable business based on open source licensed software has become m...

Then… If, like me, you’re over 40 and work in IT, you’ll probably remember a time when everyone used Windows, and a small but growing proportion of people were wasting their lives…

Neuroscience has found that gestures are not merely important as tools of expression but as guides of cognition and perception.

Describing Chinese Characters with Recursive Radical Packing Language (RRPL) - GitHub - LingDong-/rrpl: Describing Chinese Characters with Recursive Radical Packing Language (RRPL)

Thoughtful, empathetic language can make or break your business relationships

A new study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology adds to evidence that the two are linked: Those who sit the most benefit the least from a given amount of exercise

Dark day for internet freedom: The @Europarl_EN has rubber-stamped copyright reform including #Article13 and #Article11. MEPs refused to even consider amendments. The results of the final vote: 348 in favor, 274 against #SaveYourInternet

A command line toolkit to generate maps, point clouds, 3D models and DEMs from drone, balloon or kite images. 📷 - OpenDroneMap/ODM

Have you ever heard a song you liked so much you wished it would last forever?

(the pictured dish is apparently materials for “Buddha Jumps Over The Wall”, named for its ability to seduce away vegetarians – sadly it uses shark fin so has some ethical issues&…

EU states should be able to abolish daylight saving time from 2021, MEPs decide.

In a stunning rejection of the will of five million online petitioners, and over 100,000 protestors this weekend, the European Parliament has abandoned common-sense and the advice of academics,

It is an irony of US history that the most photographed and heard American of the nineteenth century, according to his latest biographer David W. Blight, was the former slave and black abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Today his fame is widespread enough for…

Linguistic missing links: This paper explains the writing system for Manunoscript MS408 (Voynich), which is written in proto-Romance language and uses proto-Italic alphabet, making it a unique document - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

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