In this remote Swiss town, residents spent a lifetime aging a wheel for their own funeral.

For 30 years, sports fans have been told to forget about streaks because the ‘hot hand’ is a fallacy. But a reanalysis says not so fast: Statistics show players really are in the zone sometimes.

No amount of adaptation to climate change can fix Miami’s water problems.

The bill for the dinner and entertainment of George Washington during the Constitutional Convention provides a look at 18th c. social life.

If you take from the web, you should give back. Search engines like Google, Bing and...

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We did it! After two years of hard work we hold in our hands hard proof that the incredible team at Terraform can make synthetic natural gas from sunlight and air, as reported in TechCrunch. Last W…

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Neovim user documentation

The financial transactions database to power the next 30 years of Online Transaction Processing.

Jackbox Games released an update to their suite of party games last night, adding a hard mode that bans the use of the word “cum.”

The five coolest discontinued watches of the last 20 years. ► Read about them here.

A few years ago, minimalism was all the rage. Marie Kondo was on every TV, The Minimalists were in everyone's podcast feed, and I found m...

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A keynote for PyCon 2023, about engineers’ interactions with people.

Python’s still No. 1, but employers love to see SQL skills

Python and SQL are on top, but old languages shouldn’t be forgotten

Next generation guids. Secure, collision-resistant ids optimized for horizontal scaling and performance. - paralleldrive/cuid2

Tranquility Reader rewritten using Webextensions API - ushnisha/tranquility-reader-webextensions

This is a DIY Potentiometer that requires no tools to assemble. Parts List: 3D Printed Knob 3D Printed Main Body 3D Printed Snap On Wire Holder A piece of printer paper Double sided tape A #2 pencil 3 Wires (Ideally something flexible like silicon) Download and print the 3D parts and assemble!... Do...

Everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ.

Climate activists disrupt flights at Hanscom airfield to protest proposed expansion, and demand that Governor Healey oppose airfield expansion in Massachusetts.

Guest blogger Amy Butler explains how changes in the stratospheric polar vortex can influence the "usual" effects of El Niño on the climate in the Northern Hemisphere.

Machines have outplayed humans before, but the technology is nearing an endgame

Too much aloneness is creating a crisis of social fitness.

A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn. - typst/typst

Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the immunocompromised.