Temperatures passed 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in northern India as an unrelenting heatwave triggered warnings of water shortages and heatstroke.

setting up camp on my new property

The good news is that two trash-strewn downtown Los Angeles streets I wrote about last week were cleaned up by city work crews and have been kept that way, as of this writing.

'Extreme vetting' has just kicked in for visitors to the US.

Huawei is reportedly stopping some smartphone production lines to "reassess" its target to become the world's top smartphone vendor by end of 2020.

Nature - Over ten years, the Human Microbiome Project has provided resources for studying the microbiome and its relationship to disease; this Perspective summarizes the key achievements and...

The array reduce method is really powerful. But people often run into trouble as soon as they step beyond the basic examples. Simple things like addition and multiplication are fine. But as soon as you try it with something more complicated, it breaks. Using…

Since 2000, Tim Friede, a truck mechanic from Wisconsin, has endured some 200 snakebites and 700 injections of lethal snake venom—all part of a masochistic quest to immunize his body and offer his blood to scientists seeking a universal antivenom. For nearly…

Background: In 2017, patients on a generic or branded antidepressant venlafaxine were switched to a new generic formulation (Enlafax). In February and April 2018, two major NZ media outlets






ran stories about the new generic being less effective and…

Crackdown from regulators comes just as the internet giant’s vulnerability is showing up on its own.

I found this article on the front page of the New York Times today and it is funny as I had been planning on writing this myself whenever...

Findings challenge a popular belief that curiosity in general is the prime driver of learning

The past few months have been quite hectic with a slew of gigantic changes requiring lengthy articles alongside them. These big features all hitting together seems to have brought up a talking point in the community would be irresponsible to ignore. Everyone…

The term “anti-pattern” is a derogatory term used to disparage software design approaches that a given developer or group of developers may not like. The term started its life as a usef…

A compiler is just a part of Emnoscripten. What if we stripped away all the bells and whistles and used just the compiler?

The programmer supposedly used face recognition to match social-media photos with images from porn sites. Collecting that data would have been illegal in some countries but not others.

If you mean a piece of spent fuel that is 30+ years old, probably nothing; certainly nothing obvious and immediate. However, you would receive a higher internal (committed) dose than many occupational regulations allow, and have a marginally highe...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gave a speech a couple of weeks back that showed that financial regulators have learned many lessons from the 2008 financial crisis, but not the most important one, namely:
If regulators wait to act until they can say…