A Marketplace survey finds that Canadians seeking appliance repairs experience complications, whether it's an inability to access prompt service, diagnose the problem, find a part, or the expense associated with repairs and replacement. But advocates say…

Emily Thomas describes how, from the 17th century onwards, the compulsion to understand the world was what drove the thoughtful to travel

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A report says China has moved minority Muslims into factory jobs, where their freedom is restricted.

Repost of Bill Gates’s New England Journal of Medicine article on how to respond to coronavirus and be prepared for the next epidemic.

Founders, companies, and investors are rebelling against the investment banks — and taking matters into their own hands

Risk Anal. 2019 Mar;39(3):647-661. doi: 10.1111/risa.13181. Epub 2018 Sep 19.

"This strongly suggests that there has been cryptic transmission in Washington State for the past 6 weeks."

iTerm2 has a lot of little-known features that can make development much easier.

We've written hundreds of libraries and made lots of mistakes. Learn the basics of how to write a good library.

In the most recent issue of the prestigious American Economic Review, a group of well-known economists published a paper noscriptd "The Welfare Effects of Social Media." It presents the results of one of the largest randomized trials ever conducted to directly…

Facebook just expanded 3D photo posting to phones that don’t actually capture depth data. Using the magic of machine learning (i.e. artificial intelligence), Facebook taught a neural network how to “infer 3D structures from 2D photos,” even if those photos…

A gentle and beginner friendly overview of Rust Ownership Rules

Repository with previous and ongoing work on Covid-19 from the Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (CMMID) at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

If Amazon Go cameras seem squiggy, shouldn’t online tracking be too?

Objectives  To assess the overall effect of vitamin D supplementation on risk of acute respiratory tract infection, and to identify factors modifying this effect.

Design  Systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data (IPD) from randomised…