Finding take-up lacking academic blogging lacking, Duncan Green outlines the major arguments for taking blogging seriously. and suggests reading a blog should be like listening to the person talk, but with links.

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Being a financial middleman is a lot easier than creating great art

HZDR press release of May 27, 2019: The Sun follows the rhythm of the planets // New study corroborates the influence of planetary tidal forces on solar activity

International undergraduate students write a letter to President Eisgruber on behalf of all international students affected by the Optional Practical Training (OPT) work authorization processing delays.

About three years ago, I published a story about how the Twitter app I built in high school, Follow, reached 150,000 downloads in two…

The measure is for people who “think their furniture is more important than their cat,” a supporter said. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo would have to sign it.

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What if sleep were considered a continuous infusion of a medication that helped patients heal faster?

!!Con 2019 - Writing an Interpreter in SQL for Fun and No Profit! by Michael MalisWriting SQL can be hard. SQL code is a bizarre combination of yelling and r...

If you're thinking about using @github for your life's work, FYI, they may remove it without any warning or notice, based on some user "report" made out of spite. That happened today for the 5+ years of One Hour One Life work that I'm hosting there. They…

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Worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings for the first quarter dropped 19 percent annually amid an industry slump, but Taiwan bucked the downtrend with billings soaring 68 percent year-on-year, international trade group SEMI said yesterday.…

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Reports suggest that the latest casualty in the ever-expanding trade war between China and the United States could be Microsoft Windows as the Chinese prepare to drop the operating system like a hot brick...

Starting with macOS Catalina, your Mac uses zsh as the default login shell and interactive shell. You can make zsh the default in earlier versions of macOS as well.

How do you take on a market where the user isn’t your customer? A market that overlaps and competes with four major industries, but doesn’t belong to any of them? These are questions I …

A group of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has clarified a 2018 mystery in the field of extragalactic astrophysics: The supposed existence of a galaxy without dark matter.