The elite Peking University has become a battleground in a rarefied ideological battle over worker conditions and rights in modern China.    

The “deinstitionalization” movement was meant to correct a stream of neglected patients, a demoralized and disengaged staff, and disappearing doctors. That didn't happen.

How our mind falls short trying to short cut.

Nature Climate Change - Behavioural interventions aimed at curbing carbon emissions are inexpensive and easy to implement but can offer the false promise of a quick fix. Across six experiments, the...

It seems that Twitter has lost control of its advertising system. This blog post will show you why it is dangerous to click on any Twitter advertising. Twitter ads have always been a bit crap, but …

The plainly wrong behavior of a ubiquitous Python library echoes a British astronomical report from 1884.

A 150-tonne tidal stream turbine called AR2000 has been planned for Scotland, the largest to be built anywhere in the world.

13 Lucky Tips for using Anki and Spaced Repetition in 2019 For the past few years I've been using Anki to capture anything I want to
remember long term. If I'm…

There is an unreasonable amount of information that can be extracted from what people publicly say on the internet. Learn how to do it.

The 25¢ Apple II Real Time Clock From Compute! Issue 9 / February 1981

The rich are getting richer. It is a refrain that has certainly been uttered before, and likely will again, as Deutsche Bank’s chief economist says the gap...

Last year, Intel showcased a CPU during its keynote a processor with all of its cores at 5 GHz. Today, that becomes a reality – Intel is set to launch a processor that promises that frequency in any scenario. The new Core i9-9900KS is an 8-core processor…

Android is deeply deeply fragmented. The Android ecosystem is split between at least 1,728 combinations of OS - Brand - Device Model (Data).

But even in the spring, autumn and winter, around half a dozen #Starlink satellites will be visible at anytime upto 3 hours before sunrise and 3 hours after sunset. Depending on how bright they end up being, this will have a drastic impact on the character…

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