Let's bring the UNIX concept of Home Directories into the 21st century.

The concept of home directories on Linux/UNIX has little changed...

We regret to inform you that you need to make small talk with your co-workers. Here’s how to master it.

We model the settlement of the galaxy by space-faring civilizations in order to address issues related to the Fermi Paradox. We explore the problem in a way that avoids assumptions about the...

"It’s all about: did you grab them in that first five seconds?"

I have been passionated by web crawler for a long time. I have written several one in many languages such as C++, JavaScript (Node.JS), Python, … and I love the theory behind them.
But first of all, what is a web crawler?
What is a web crawler? A web crawler…

Why do societies vary in their rates of entrepreneurship and organizational founding? Drawing on the largest available longitudinal sample comprising 192 countr

Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?Hey there I’m Evan Waldenberg, the founder of Junk in your Trunks. Clothing from trash for the wonderful piece of garbage you are. We’re making swim trunks out of recycled plastic bottles. We’re not the…

The $100 OLPC laptop was supposed to revolutionize education.

With a substantial boost from fans of their historical, ecological — and culinary — contributions, the West Coast’s only native oyster is staging a powerful comeback.

A photo survey of the blackboards of mathematicians.

i was leaked a cached copy of the Google/NASA paper claiming quantum supremacy. it’s latin extended only, and missing figures, tables, and ligatures—and i’ve not done physics for ten years—so it was a little hard to decipher (heh) but i have some thoughts…

The FTC’s antitrust probe is giving Facebook’s competitors a chance to air complaints.

In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.

Nature - Drug-resistant bacteria are gaining a stronghold in developing countries where meat production has soared.