There are two kinds of history to learn from. One is the specific events. What did this person do right? What did that country do wrong? What ideas worked? What strategies failed? It’s most of what we pay attention to, because specific stories are easy to…

… I did it. I survived the Paper Blitz.Huh?For those of you who saw one of my earlier posts about why most C implementations will purposefully blow your leg ...

Being able to feel empathy and to take in the other person's perspective – these are two abilities through which we understand what is going on in the other person's mind. Although both terms are in constant circulation, it is still unclear what exactly they…

GNU's framework for secure p2p networking

The city joins Los Angeles, San Francisco and Denver in testing out new law enforcement alternatives. 

The Austrian Supreme Court has ordered that Facebook remove a post on a global scale.

“Look, Clayton, I’m a busy man and I don’t have time to read drivel from academics but someone you told me you had this theory… and I’m…

A technology called air lubrication offers a way to make large ships more efficient

The dance of love and lore between grandparent and grandchild is at the centre, not the fringes, of our evolutionary story

A single .exe binary which runs DOOM on DOS 6, Windows 95 and Windows 10 (and probably everything in between). - nneonneo/universal-doom

This week, I want to talk about the discipline of military history: what it is, why it is important and how I see my own place within it. This is going to be a bit of an unusual collections post as…

Consumption of chili pepper may reduce the relative risk of cardiovascular disease mortality by 26%, according to an analysis of diet and mortality data from four large, international studies. Chili pepper consumption was associated with a 25% reduction in…

New research examines this well-known trade-off in our floral friends

After popular pirate sites started disappearing from Google's top results, the same now appears to be happening at DuckDuckGo as well.

On November 12, 2020 Apple released macOS Big Sur. In the hours after the release went live, somewhere in Apple's infrastructure an OCSP esponder cried out in pain…

For the past year, I've been on a leave of absence from college working on a startup. As I prepare for my return to school, what comes next…

Installing a RGB mechanical keypad on my microwave. - dekuNukem/pimp_my_microwave

The purpose of your technical resume is to generate interview requests. A successful resume attracts more interest, from more of the companies you want to interview with, for more of the jobs you would be happy to take.You might think of a resume as your…

In 1984 Jane Pauley interviewed 28-year-old Bill Gates.