This blog contains wild-eyed rants and things that I need to write down somewhere. Obviously, the views expressed here are my own.

Apple lost its counterfeit case against a Norwegian repair shop owner last year, but the $1 trillion company won't let it go.

Regardless of arbitrary social classifications of "pet" and "pest," no animal deserves to suffer in such a way.

Anne Wojcicki built the world’s biggest genetic research database, and booked an estimated $475 million in annual sales, by selling 10 million consumers 23andMe genetic test kits. Now Wojcicki is betting on the next medical breakthrough.

Every programming language has a set of conventions that people come to expect. Learn about the patterns that are common to Swift API...

After all they’ve done for me, I owe it to my parents to support them.

Survey finds that ‘normal’ human tissues are riddled with mutations.

Most of the ills traced to these companies are a direct consequence of their no-cost business models.

Each morning, once the kids were off to school, Kerri Hand would slip out to her backyard, sit in a lawn chair and hang out with her feathered family.

A new survey of interactions between microbes and medications suggests that gut bacteria play a crucial role in how the body processes drugs.

Kami Rita Sherpa has spent his life on the world's highest mountain and holds the record for Everest ascents.

Many pesticides that have been banned or are being phased out in the EU, Brazil and China, are still widely used in the USA, according to a study published in the open access journal Environmental Health.

Today, we’re excited to introduce repository templates to make boilerplate code management and distribution a first-class citizen on GitHub.

We can still say no to mass surveillance.

At a time when local newspapers are disappearing, the loss of a radio station leaves a community with another cultural and informational gap

The 19th-century physicist Hermann von Helmholtz compared his progress in solving a problem to that of a mountain climber “compelled…

Breaking down some easy steps to ensure you are writing clean and semantic