Syntax highlighters make value judgments about code. Most highlighters judge that comments are cruft, and try to hide them. Most diff viewers judge that code deletions are bad.

Britain's supposed departure through Brexit is a golden opportunity for the European Union to seize control of its de facto official working language to the benefit of its hundreds of millions of residents.

the secret is in the architecture

People who experience anxiety symptoms might be helped by taking steps to regulate the microorganisms in their gut using probiotic and non-probiotic food and supplements, suggests a review of studies.

Astronomers used to probing the universe always knew that strange signals detected by the Parkes radio telescope were coming from somewhere closer to home. But finding the source was the tricky bit.

Chinese developers fear the fallout from the tech war will cost them access to GitHub

<em>One man’s modus ponens is another man’s modus tollens</em> is a saying in Western philosophy encapsulating a common response to a logical proof which generalizes the <em>reductio ad absurdum</em> and consists of rejecting a premise based on an implied…

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How cartography made early modern global trade possible.

The freedom to say what I think and command my own time is enough for me.

People eat 65 billion chickens every year. It is the fastest-growing meat product. Yet pound for pound the price of chicken has fallen sharply. How has this happened?

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On the latest Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, Weinberg explains why it’s time for Congress to step in and make "do not track" the norm.

What happens when the chefs behind North America’s most hedonistic restaurant quit drinking.

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