Aldous Huxley argued that all religions in the world were underpinned by universal beliefs and experiences. Was he right?

A number of my friends and family asked me what I think is going to happen with coronavirus (COVID-19) and what we should be doing to prepare. Here are a few thoughts about what’s likely to happen and what you can do about it.

In Thursday's separate hearing on allowing Assange out of the armoured box to sit with his legal team, I witnessed directly that Baraitser's ruling against Assange was brought by her into court BEFORE

Scholars once doubted that pre-literate peoples could ever have composed and recited poems as long as the Odyssey. Milman Parry changed that.

Through friends in the Russian science community, I was able to get the raw telemetry from Venera-13 and 14. I funded its recovery from old tapes and conversion to TIF format. It consisted of multiple transmissions with considerable noise.

The Maersk Triple-E Class container ship is 1,300 feet long, carries over 18,000 containers across 11,000 miles between Europe and Asia, and… Its entire crew can fit inside a passenger van.

Alien civilizations on other worlds would need much more awkward contortions to their calendars than we make here on Earth.

Postgres Explain Visualizer 2. Contribute to dalibo/pev2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

LONDON (Reuters) - British hedge fund billionaire Chris Hohn has launched a campaign to persuade central banks to starve hundreds of planned coal-fired power plants around the world of finance, aiming to block the projects before they can pose a threat to…

How fears of mind control went from paranoid delusion to conventional wisdom

Switzerland’s Federal Department of Finance has filed a criminal complaint “against persons unknown” over media reports that a leading Swiss-based cryptological equipment manufacturer was secretly …

[Update 2020-03-05: The most up-to-date summary is at 2020.02.29 CAA Rechecking Bug] Due to the 2020.02.29 CAA Rechecking Bug, we unfortunately need to revoke many Let’s Encrypt TLS/SSL certificates. We’re e-mailing affected subscribers for whom we have…

Collision, or intersection, detection is an important geometric operation with a large number of applications in graphics, CAD and virtual reality including: map overlay operations, constructive so…

Robinhood, the free-trading pioneer favored by younger traders, said it was experiencing an outage on Monday.

So @hugo_official (who turnover approx $2.7 billion a year) have sent cease & desist letters to a number of small businesses & charities who use the word 'BOSS' or similar, including a small brewery in Swansea costing them thousands in legal fees and rebranding.…

A surprisingly-common misconception can lead to big rendering issues that are difficult to debug. This deep-dive tutorial examines how React and Gatsby can be used to pre-render content, and how we can work around the constraints to build dynamic, personalized…