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June 4, 2025 This article was contributed by Lee Phillips Free software plays a critical role in science, both in research and in disseminating it. Aspects of software freedom are directly relevant to simulation, analysis, document preparation and preservation, security, reproducibility, and…
dynomight · updated Aug 2022 · science conspiracy Question: Should you drink acetone? Answer: No. But, out of interest, what if you did? This question is asked repeatedly on the web, with with many answers smugly stating that even tiny amounts of acetone will instantly kill you, you idiot. But they…
For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths—and revealed the limits of limitless disclosure. — Meg Bernhard In the early aughts, Frank Warren ran a medical document delivery business in Germantown, Maryland. It was a monotonous job, involving daily trips to government…
Eine bewusste Erziehung muss man sich erst leisten können Gute Eltern schimpfen nie, gönnen sich Auszeiten und begleiten ihr Kind bindungsorientiert. Solche Überzeugungen sind nicht nur arrogant, sie grenzen auch viele aus, schreibt Autorin Nora Imlau. Text: Nora Imlau Bild: Adobe Stock Vorurteile…
Short answer: turn it off and turn it back on Long Answer… Background The lifecycle of most spacecraft consists of a final phase where all the systems are tested to various levels of synergy. One of the most important and complex set of tests are the Closed Loop Tests (CLTs), where the spacecraft is…
I’ve seen plenty of weird computer bugs in my time, but nothing quite like what Peter Onion discovered in February 2015. He was proudly photographing his brand new Raspberry Pi 2 when something bizarre happened—every time his camera flash went off, his Pi instantly powered down. At first, Peter…
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The former Heartland Tri-State Bank in Elkhart, Kan.Credit...Benjamin Rasmussen for The New York Times The Great Read How did a successful, financially sophisticated banker gamble his community’s money away? The former Heartland Tri-State Bank in Elkhart, Kan.Credit...Benjamin Rasmussen for The New…
by Ploum on 2025-02-27 I’ve written extensively, in French, about my quest to break my "connection addiction" by doing what I called "disconnections". At first, it was only doing three months without major news media and social networks. Then I tried to do one full year where I would only connect…
i was addicted to instagram for about a month. it upended my life enough that i realized that i was living with something new-an undesirable habit. and once i realized this, it seemed like it would be wise to try to address it or at least think about it. easier said than done. i left instagram for…
The following sentence applies regardless of when you read this: A famous man has recently been accused of doing sexual things to a woman (or many women) without consent. At the time of this writing, it was a politician's "groping" scandal but next time it'll be unwanted dick pics a powerful man…
In the summer of 1961, Osamu Shimomura sat alone in a rowboat on the Puget Sound, surrounded by thousands of glowing jellyfish. A marine biologist and chemist, he often sought out such quiet moments to reflect on his experimental failures. For two weeks, he had been struggling to isolate the…
The German Empire was founded in 1871, following Prussia’s victory in the Franco-Prussian War. Although a fledgling political nation, Germany was already renowned for its scientific genius. Many discoveries — from microscopy to organic chemistry — came from German scientists working in a period of…
As I climb into my little twin sized bed in my small RV trailer on a patch of undeveloped deep rural land in the Central New York highlands, exhausted from my 6 hours of doordash driving to make less than 200$ that day, I check my emails one last time for the night: no responses from the 745th…
Human Written by a human [0] Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans. Just machines, bolts and screws, zeros and ones. There is no emotion. There is no art. There is only logic. You would not walk through the streets of this world and hear music or laughter or children playing; no, all you…
Das Verhältnis zwischen der Schweiz und den USA ist angespannt. Während sich Bundesrätinnen und Diplomaten bemühen, den wirtschaftlichen Druck aus Übersee – insbesondere im Zollbereich – abzufedern, wächst in der Bundesverwaltung die Skepsis gegenüber der Abhängigkeit von amerikanischen…
Modest Beginnings At the height of the Cold War, only a handful of nations possessed the capacity to launch rockets into space. Among them were the world's foremost superpowers of the time: the United States of America (USA), and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Then there was Lebanon, a…
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” With a sly grin that I’d soon come to recognize, Paul Ginsparg quoted Michael Corleone from The Godfather. Ginsparg, a physics professor at Cornell University and a certified MacArthur genius, may have little in common with Al Pacino’s mafia…
The prostate gland causes entirely too many problems. In the US, prostate cancer kills about one man of every forty. “Benign prostate hyperplasia” (BPH) is even more common, affecting most men over age 60. It pinches the urinary tract, making it hard to urinate, and is constantly in danger of…
Michał Kotowski (University of Toronto, Canada), http://www.math.toronto.edu/~michal/ Piotr Migdał (ICFO, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain), http://migdal.wikidot.com/en Table of Contents Summary In our talk we tried to outline what's wrong with the academic system of doing science and discuss…
Illustrations by Ben Smith By James Somers The keeper of a university’s lab animals stumbles onto an extraordinary secret. For his mice the “sun” happened to rise between two and three in the morning, and so he, too, built his day around the artificial lights—even though increasingly this routine…
“Email has largely stayed the same,” wrote Gmail product manager Aakash Shaney in 2019, while the web rapidly evolved around it. No more. Google’s AMP for email meant “your emails can stay up to date” and “you can easily take action directly from the message itself.” Four years earlier, the search…
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[This post received first place in the 2024 Blog Extravaganza at Adam Mastroianni’s Experimental History. Many thanks, Adam!] I first had this thought in 2019, and I started this draft in early 2020, but…you know how that particular story turned out. I’m picking it back up again now because I’ve had…
The Biology of B-Movie Monsters About the Digital Collection: History of Fathom | Technical Information | Copyright and Restrictions | Home Browse the Archive Search by Keyword The Biology of B-Movie Monsters BY | Michael C. LaBarbera SESSION 1: Biology and Geometry Collide! Size has been one of the…
Scrolling on our phones is killing us. This is a statement of fact that needs no citation (besides, research isn’t really my thing). The massive suck of our phones and the never-ending, algorithmically-driven internet has been covered at greater length by better-informed writers. We all know our…
Twitter was so many things. Elon Musk killed Twitter. First, he did it figuratively: firing most employees, destabilizing it as a technology and a business, leaving the platform virtually unusable for those who remained. Then, he killed it literally: renaming it X, giving Twitter a final ending…
We often think of the same information at different levels or abstraction. Here's a simple example: Here's a close-up of a fish— we can see the scales, the texture of the fins, the faint reflection in the eye. Zoomed out a bit, the details are faded slightly. The surrounding ocean comes into view.…
As an adolescent, I used to be obsessed with skyscrapers. I made daily visits to the Skyscraper City forums, eagerly waiting for progress photos as supertall skyscrapers went up around the world. I was lucky to visit Shanghai with my family in 2005, just as Shanghai’s skyline was rapidly changing. I…
Jun 2023 Comments at substack. Interested in how to be a big dumb idiot and over-complicate things and waste time and money and endure tons of stress and some real physical pain all by thinking that you’re cleverer than you actually are? (No?) Looking back, I was always sensitive to noise but never…
13 May 2017 I. My dad emigrated from Colombia to North America when he was 18 looking looking for a better life. For my brother and I that meant a lot of standing outside in the cold. My dad’s preferred method of improving his lot was improving lots, and my brother and I were “voluntarily” recruited…
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„Wir sind natürlich sehr erfreut und auch ein wenig stolz, dass wir einen derart hochkarätigen Spieler verpflichten konnten“, schwärmt FCZ-Präsident Ancillo Canepa über seinen neuen Spieler. „Er wird vor allem auch für unsere jungen Spieler eine wichtige Stütze sein.“ Über die seit Jahren…
02.20.2025 This post is the second in a series. Read part one here. Using chemical rockets, there are just two classes of mission to choose from: (The durations I give here can vary, but are representative). Long Stay: Spend six months flying to Mars, stay for 17 months, spend six months flying back…
One of Stanisław Lem's stories, The Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, begins with a strange phenomenon that turns all written materials into dust. While this is science fiction, something similar happens in our digital world. If you publish something online, sooner or later, it will vanish.1 In the…
Letter from Beverly Hills Nearly every day for decades, Irving V. Link tanned by the luxury pool. Then his idyllic life style came under threat from the hotel’s owner, the Sultan of Brunei. February 14, 1993 Illustration by Jean-Philippe Delhomme Until just a few weeks ago, no American seemed on…
I took a 32" eInk display and turned it into a digital newspaper that updates every day. It's silent, wireless and can run for months without being plugged in. If you buy the Place & Play Display, please use my affiliate link: • https://www.visionect.com/shop/place-play-32/ref/graiz/ I've published…
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