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Solve a linguistic whodunit about a college mascot by thinking like a self-referencing computer subroutine.

In harsh ecosystems around the world, microbiologists are finding evidence that “microbial seed banks” protect biodiversity from changing conditions.

Months before its release, friends and family began sending me links to the movie trailer for “The Public.”

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What did we discover when we picked apart StackOverflow to find out what bugged developers most? We picked 11 of the most popular programming languages (measured by frequency of StackOverflow tags) and ran a study looking to uncover some of the commonalities…

Why have so many physicists shrugged off the paradoxes of quantum mechanics?

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Sensei's Library, page: Front Page, keywords: . SL is a large WikiWikiWeb about the game of Go (Baduk, Weiqi). It's a collaboration and community site. Everyone can add comments or edit pages.

China unveiled a colossal Mars survival simulation base camp on Wednesday in the Gobi desert of Jinchang, Northwest China's Gansu Province. According to a project employee, the simulation camp will become an astronaut training facility in the future.

Jon Savage’s “This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else” documents the formation, brief life and sudden end of the phenomenal Manchester, England, band Joy Division.

It's hard to be civil without being empathetic. But researchers say our natural instinct for empathy may be going out of style.

It is with great sadness that I share news of Joe Armstrong's passing away earlier today. Whilst he may no longer be with us, his work has laid the foundation which will be used by generations to come. RIP @joeerl, thank you for inspiring us all.

Joe Armstrong is one of the inventors of Erlang. When at the Ericsson computer science lab in 1986, he was part of the team who designed and implemented the first version of Erlang. He has written several Erlang books including Programming Erlang Software…