With ARPANET, Robert Taylor and Larry Roberts intended to connect many different research institutions, each hosting its own computer, for whose hardware and software it was wholly responsible. The…

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There's some chemistry to the pleasant smell of rain after a long, dry spell.

 

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Decades ago, a young naval engineer on a British nuclear submarine started taking an interest in the electric batteries helping to run his vessel. Silently running under the frozen polar ice cap during the Cold War, little did this submariner know that, in…

Out for a walk one day, a woman came across a construction site and saw three men working. She asked the first man, “What are you doing?” Annoyed by the question, the first man barked, “Can’t you see that I’m laying bricks?” Not satisfied with the answer…

Common wisdom in Tennis tells you Roger Federer is the greatest of all time. While this might actually be true, I always believed there is something more interesting and profound and very under appreciated about Rafalel Nadal’s game.

Sixty-two-year-old Brad Williams remembers what he ate for breakfast and lunch — Corn Flakes and hamburgers, respectively — on May 3, 1969, the day he...

You may have heard about Fedora Silverblue, the next-generation desktop OS. This article gives you a more complete view about what it is and how it works.

Historically, MySQL had been the de-facto database of choice for microservices at WePay. As WePay scales, the sheer volume of data written into some of our m...

Pain researchers at University of Sydney have found compelling evidence that insects feel persistent pain after injury. Read more.

In a comment to my post on putting out fires last week, one commenter mentioned the utility of the good old sand bucket, and wondered if there was anything that would go on to set the sand on fire. Thanks to a note from reader Robert L., I can report that…

A new study shows that bilinguals do indeed think about time differently, depending on the language context in which they are estimating the duration of events.