Using historical research that draws on new primary sources, I review the causes and course of the first, mainly iatrogenic amphetamine epidemic in the United States from the 1940s through the 1960s. Retrospective epidemiology indicates that the ...

(BIG issue 8-20-2019)

"TRC" is a self-described bibliophile who has "pirated" thousands of books. How and why does he do it, and what does he think the publishing industry should do to curb the looming ebook piracy threat?

California-based company Oklo has announced the launch of its Aurora advanced fission clean energy plant in California, US.

We all have pet peeves, even though there's a lot going on in the world that makes them pretty insignificant. While acknowledging that there are many more

Abbott Labs makes a continuous glucose monitor — used by people with diabetes to monitor their blood-sugar levels — called (ironically, as you’ll see below) the Freestyle Libre.

Inspired by lit-html and HTM, and referencing the fantastically precise HTML5 spec, we built hypertext literal: a tagged template literal for HTML which interpolates values based on context, allowing automatic escaping and the interpolation of non-serializable…

Glush is a new parser compiler based on Glushkov’s construction algorithm – . It offers a human readable grammar, is naturally top-down and maintains worst case cubic performance for even the most ambiguous grammars.

I don’t even recognize it anymore

Slack, one of Silicon Valley’s more diverse companies, has hired three formerly incarcerated coders.

At Simple Analytics we do things a bit differently. We put the privacy of your visitors first. At the same time we comply with strict (and necessary) privacy laws. This has an impact on our statistics, like unique visits. We record page views (which is very…

Discover how Broadway can help you create highly concurrent data processing pipelines in your Elixir app.

From unopened shampoo to unworn clothes, perfectly good products end up in dumpsters and landfill sites. Why? The Current went dumpster diving with a seasoned scavenger to find out.

A look at what the newest generation of Java GCs can do

There is more than aesthetics and investment in today's demand for Chinese art. Art has become an “invisible cloak” that helps businessmen navigate Chinese corruption