Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web. Contribute to orbitdb/orbitdb development by creating an account on GitHub.

For millennia, metallurgists have been meticulously tweaking the ingredients of steel to enhance its properties. As a result, several variants of steel exist today; but one type, called martensitic steel, ...

The Confrérie des Charitables de Saint-Éloi has carried on its duties through war and plague

Funding for scientists at academic institutions working on COVID-19 related projects.

What’s so great about Baymard and why aren’t there more organizations on the same level?

Simple virtual whiteboarding. Contribute to jncraton/box-line-text development by creating an account on GitHub.

Blip, the 1970s portable Pong clone that amazes as much as it tests you.

This is my first video with music that was written on the Roland SK-88 I just reviewed here: https://youtu.be/YljBdv6hZbc

Blip is really fun despite how hard it is. As long as you…

This is not just kidding around with mind-bending science experiments for its own sake; dozens of applications exist for spider silk.

THREAD - History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes: a thread about the **Anti-Mask League** of 1919. I'm not kidding I went HAM researching this So, starting in Sept 2018 San Francisco suffered from Spanish Flu pandemic. Initial mask wearing was good …

This startling finding suggests that between 48,000 and 81,000 people were infected in Santa Clara County by early April. The results represent the first large-scale community-based prevalence stud…

In Minnesota, the country's last stronghold of native Ojibwe speakers, Anton Treuer is racing to preserve knowledge.

I’ve started tracking TILs—Today I Learneds—inspired by this five-year-and-counting collection by Josh Branchaud on GitHub (found via Hacker News). I’m keeping mine in GitHub too, and using GitHub Actions to …