Lithium is crucial for the transition to renewables, but mining it has been environmentally costly. Now a more sustainable source of lithium has been found deep beneath our feet.

In my previous post, I described running Arch on an OpenWRT router. Today, I'll be taking it a step further and running Arch and a full LXDE installation nat...

Shutting down scientific debate is hurting the public health

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Unified code base and documentation - The ZFS on Linux project has been renamed OpenZFS! Both Linux and FreeBSD are now supported from the same repository making all of the ...

Arguments rage over topics like explicit errors vs runtime exceptions, checked vs unchecked, and more. In this post, I want to reframe the discussion a bit. Good error handling is simply hard, and consists of conflicting goals.

Students say they’ve been flagged as cheaters for routine behavior, and worry about being filmed in the privacy of their own homes.

A lithograph of the massive 1883 eruption of KrakatoaThe eruption of Krakatoa, and subsequent phenomena, 1888; Parker & Coward;…

Violent, lively and brash, taverns were everywhere in early colonial America, embodying both its tumult and its promise

General Motors scrapped a tentative deal to jointly build an electric pickup, replacing it with a non-binding deal to supply hydrogen-fuel technology

As the Signal protocol becomes the industry standard, it's worth understanding what sets it apart from other forms of end-to-end encrypted messaging.

Dave Chappelle has a new special about his old show that includes fundamental lessons about how the Internet has changed the content business.

Tens of thousands of ice age paintings across a cliff face shed light on people and animals from 12,500 years ago

In 2020, officeless workers learned to doze off between Zoom calls. Maybe now we can admit that the post-turkey crash is nothing to be ashamed of.

Evidence from observational studies is accumulating, suggesting that the majority of deaths due to SARS-CoV-2 infections are statistically attributable to vitamin D insufficiency and could potentially be prevented by vitamin D supplementation [...]

Part 1: How your user experience changes for the worse as the open web gives way to walled gardensI hang out in two circles. Open web enthusiasts that are lamenting its demise, and regular users who are happy with their fast snappy apps and couldn't care…

I’m the inventor of BeltBro.com, a no-buckle belt that uses just 2 belt loops to hold up pants and shorts. I developed this belt because I…

Throughout the course of my career I have done my best to stay on top of new hardware and software. As a teenager I owned an Altair 8800 and an Apple II. In my first year of college someone gave me a phone number and said “call this with modem.” I did, it…

At 21, Ashwin Sah has produced a body of work that senior mathematicians say is nearly unprecedented for a college student.