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.

Bernard Rudofsky’s 1947 essay “Are Clothes Modern?” ponders the passing of fads, the ideology of luxury goods, the changeability of body taboos, and the psychic satisfaction of a chic self-portrait.

Scientific Reports - HyperFoods: Machine intelligent mapping of cancer-beating molecules in foods

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I always wondered who hand-lettered Hong Kong’s road signs. The answer is more interesting than I suspected.

Math is about more than just numbers. In this 'book' the language of math is visual, shown in shapes and patterns. This is a coloring book about group theory.

Late last year, Google launched a blog management tool named 'Blog Compass.' It could connect to sites running either WordPress or Blogger, and provided