Regarding the purported rules of En­glish syntax, we tend to divide into mutually hostile camps. Hip, open-­minded types relish the never-­ending transformations of the way we speak and write. They care about the integrity of our language only insofar as…

In 1915, it was the Canadian Corps’ first Christmas on the Western Front and in a trench near Ypres their enemy was inviting them over for a party.

Vast stretches of Earth’s northern latitudes are on fire right now. Hot weather has engulfed a huge portion of the Arctic, from Alaska to Greenland to Siberia. That’s helped create conditions ripe for wildfires, including some truly massive ones burning in…

Interviewed by Edward Feigenbaum on 2007-03-14 in Mountain View, CA X3926.2007
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In this wide-ranging interview conducted by Edward Feigenbaum, Donald Knuth talks about the progression of his life and career. Topics include his family…

In 1910, East Texas saw one of America’s deadliest post-Reconstruction racial purges. One survivor’s descendants have waged an uphill battle for generations to unearth that violent past.

Think of the name Buckminster Fuller, and you may think of a few oddities of mid-twentieth-century design for living: the Dymaxion House, the Dymaxion Car, the geodesic dome.

How two Cosmonauts battled extreme cold, darkness, and limited resources to save Salyut 7.

Scientific Reports - Arrow of time and its reversal on the IBM quantum computer

Google‘s reportedly on the verge of demonstrating a quantum computer capable of feats no ordinary classical computer could perform. The term for this is quantum supremacy, and experts believe the Mountain View company could be mere months from achieving it.…

Ten years ago I wrote an essay ennoscriptd " The Trouble with Shadow Photons " describing a problem with the dramatic narrative of what is comm...

Some of the strategies I use for managing my disability in the workplace.

Earlier this year I FOIAed the FBI for details on allegations of backdoor installed in the IPSEC stack in 2010, originally discussed by OpenBSD devs (marc.info/?l=openbsd-tec…) Today, I got an interesting but unexpected responsive record: muckrock.com/foi/united…

Introduction
This post tries to answer the question of what qualities make some research teams more effective than others. I was particularly interes…

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