Definition Definition Did you know? Example Sentences Word History Rhymes Entries Near Related Articles Podcast Cite this EntryCitation Share Kids DefinitionKids More from M-W To save this word, you'll need to log in. Log In bravado noun bra·​va·​do brə-ˈvä-(ˌ)dō plural bravadoes or bravados…

materials science Why Is Ice Slippery? A New Hypothesis Slides Into the Chat. December 8, 2025 A newly proposed explanation for the slipperiness of ice has revived a centuries-long debate. Read Later Solids don’t usually have such slick surfaces. Marcus Lindstrom Introduction The reason we can…

Little, unknown companies with silly names can sell to enterprises who have already spent millions. source Why would someone pay millions of dollars for software, and then also pay a bootstrapped company $700 for software that does the same thing? How can you win those deals too? “It’s not a matter…

Back around 2014, I kept hearing about this cool database called Riak, a distributed database that could survive network partitions and keep accepting writes. Some really interesting companies were using it at massive scale, and I was curious about it. One of the big selling points was that it could…

This is a long straight passage that is lined with decorative houses on one side, overlooking a former graveyard and blocks of 1930s council housing. The graveyard was first laid out in 1810 as a cemetery for a chapel of ease, and burials continued until 1876. In 1884, the council was granted…

누구나 한 번쯤 색색의 학종이를 접어 종이학을 만들어 본 기억이 있을 것이다. 배를 접어 종이배를 띄워봤을 수도, 특별한 날에는 도안을 따라 그럴싸한 하트나 장미꽃을 만들어 봤을 수도 있다. 종이접기는 주어진 순서에 따라 종이를 접어 나가는 단순 작업이지만, 접는 순서와 각도에 따라 전혀 다른 형태가 만들어진다는 점에서 정교함과 창의력을 요하는 활동이기도 하다. 많은 사람의 어릴 적 추억이나 취미 영역에 머무는 이 종이접기는 최근 과학기술 분야에서 예상 밖의 활약을 하고 있다. 1995년 일본의 천체물리학자 미우라 코료가…

The Middlesex Deeds Registry (1709-1938) is still widely read by visitors. "What you see as a member of the public is really the tip of the iceberg," says Emma Markiewicz, Director at the London Metropolitan Archives. This place is a Londonphile's dream. Somewhere you can walk in off the street and…

중앙SUNDAY 오피니언 먼나라 이웃나라 역사 프리즘 [먼나라 이웃나라 역사 프리즘] <109> 세녜라 중앙선데이 입력 업데이트 971호 33면 중앙일보 지면보기 서비스는 로그인 후 이용 가능합니다. 최근 1개월 내 지면만 열람하실 수 있습니다. 중앙일보 지면보기 서비스는 로그인 후 이용 가능합니다. 로그인 하시면 최신호의 전체 내용을 보실 수 있습니다. 로그인 하시겠습니까? 더중앙플러스 회원이 되시면 창간호부터 전체 지면보기와 지면 다운로드가 가능합니다. 더중앙플러스 회원이 되시겠습니까? 글·그림 이원복 앱에서만 제공되는 편의…

This feature first appeared in December 2024 on Londonist: Time Machine, our much-praised history newsletter. To be the first to read new history features like this, sign up for free here. Image: Matt Brown Smithfield’s days are numbered. In November 2024, the City of London Corporation announced…

I’m going to call this from the start. The Go60 is the best travel-friendly split keyboard, perhaps even the best all-around split keyboard, you can buy right now. I’m no MoErgo fanboy – in my review of their Glove80 I was pretty clear that there were areas I felt the Glove80 fell short. I feel the…

USB PD is a fun protocol to explore, but it can be a bit complex to fully implement. It makes sense we’re seeing new stacks pop up all the time, and today’s stack is a cool one as far as code reusability goes. [Vitaly] over on Hackaday.io brings us pdsink – a C++ based PD stack with no platform…

For most people around the world, 16 August 1977 was memorable because it was the day Elvis Presley died. “We turned the radio on when we got back in the car and that was the headline. Elvis was dead,” remembers Dr Mark Harvey. But that day was pivotal for the then 18-year-old Harvey for a different…

여행 광주전라 25.12.07 11:46ㅣ최종 업데이트 25.12.07 11:47 구례합동주조장에서 학술대회 현장까지… 지역에 남은 해방기의 흔적 여경수(ccourt) 글자 크기조절 추천 공유 지난 5일 국립순천대학교 10·19연구소에서 주최한 '구례 10·19 이전 해방공간의 상황' 학술회의에 참석하고자 구례를 방문했다. 나는 학술대회가 시작되기 전에 먼저 구례주조장을 찾았다. 이곳은 구례의 근현대사와 관련이 깊은 곳이다. 일제 시절부터 민족 자본을 형성하기 위해서 구례 지역민들이 구례합동주조장을 건립했다. ▲구례주조장 :…

enigmatic adjective enig·​mat·​ic ˌe-(ˌ)nig-ˈma-tik also ˌē-(ˌ)nig- variants or less commonly enigmatical ˌe-(ˌ)nig-ˈma-ti-kəl also ˌē-(ˌ)nig- Synonyms of enigmatic : of, relating to, or resembling an enigma : mysterious enigmatically ˌe-(ˌ)nig-ˈma-ti-k(ə-)lē also ˌē-(ˌ)nig- adverb Did you know? The…

11박 12일 발리(Bali) 여행 6일째, 우리는 '티르타 엠풀 사원(Pura Tirta Empul, Tirta Empul Temple)'에 갔다. 곳곳에 사원이 즐비한 발리이지만 그중에서도 특히 유명한 사원이다. Tirta(티르타)는 물, Empul(엠풀)은 '샘, 떠 있다'를 뜻하여 대략 '성스러운 샘물 사원'쯤 된다. 입장료는 1명에 75,000루피아(Rupiah)이었고, 우리를 매표소 앞에 내려주면서 운전사가 꽤 멀리 저쪽에서 기다리겠다고 하여 왜 하필 저기일까 의아했는데 나중에 보니까 동선상 그쪽으로 나왔다. 안으로…

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Moths – and many other flying insects – being drawn to human-made light at night is something most people have observed firsthand, across history and around the world. But despite this phenomenon’s ubiquity, good explanations for it have proved elusive. As the UK biologist Samuel Fabian details in a…

Definition Definition Did you know? Synonyms Example Sentences Word History Rhymes Entries Near Podcast Cite this EntryCitation Share Kids DefinitionKids Medical DefinitionMedical More from M-W To save this word, you'll need to log in. Log In sensibility noun sen·​si·​bil·​i·​ty ˌsen(t)-sə-ˈbi-lə-tē…

달리기가 무릎을 해친다는 믿음은 오랫동안 상식처럼 굳어져 왔다. 이 글은 그 통념을 조용히, 그러나 결정적으로 뒤집는다. 의료 현장에서 직접 달리는 의사들의 임상 경험과 축적된 연구, 그리고 한 러너가 겪은 시행착오를 통해 무릎은 달리기에 부서지는 기관이 아니라, 달리기를 통해 더 강해지는 구조임을 차분하고 설득력 있게 보여준다. 여기에 러너의 7가지 대표 부상과 대비법, 스트레칭과 근력운동 방법까지 초보 러너가 반드시 알아야 할 기본 원칙까지 담아 실용성을 더했다. 달리기를 시작하려는 사람에게는 지도가 되고, 오래 달린 사람에게는…

It's hardly surprising it's possible to photograph the Moon with a smartphone camera, given the speed with which phone tech has developed over the past few years. The Moon is a great target for photography, whatever your level of experience. Being bright and having a tangible size in the sky, it…

What was the first metal humans used? You probably won’t guess it. What did the first metals have in common? It will blow your mind. What metal promoted the first intercontinental trade? How did this lead to the first civilizations? How did its replacement ushered a radically new world? The stages…

A few years ago, I attempted to build hardware projects using ESP32 microcontrollers and Rust, but the experience was so painful, between weird processors, custom toolchains and incomplete libraries, that I quickly quit. Life is too short to fight that hard just to run an "Hello World". Fast-forward…

Rust has replaced Go as my weapon of choice to build medium-size web services, web services of 10K+ lines of code and 100 or so endpoints. Not because Rust is faster, but because Rust is way more reliable! No more null pointer dereference or fields forgotten when creating a struct, and of course,…

I've been interested in functional programming since a friend introduced Haskell to me at University. While I never successfully learned Haskell as it's too far from what I was using day to day (C and Node.js), a new language perfectly mixing imperative and functional programming so that even the…

It’s amazing how easily we can collaborate online nowadays. We use Google Docs to collaborate on documents, spreadsheets and presentations; in Figma we work together on user interface designs; we communicate with colleagues using Slack; we track tasks in Trello; and so on. We depend on these and…

There’s recently been some discussion about the benefits and downsides of lock (mutex) poisoning in Rust, spurred by a recent proposal to make the default mutex non-poisoned, i.e. silently unlock on panic (see also, recent discussion on Hacker News). As a passionate defender of lock poisoning, I…

This pocket park next to the Regents Canal was created just under a decade ago as part of a wider regeneration of the Packington Estate. This part of London, just north of Old Street, was originally laid out with neat rows of Victorian houses, but post-war clearance of what was by then slum housing…

in History, Life | December 3rd, 2025 Leave a Comment Image via Wiki­me­dia Com­mons With the old joke about every gen­er­a­tion think­ing they invent­ed sex, List­verse brings us the papyrus above, the old­est depic­tion of sex on record. Paint­ed some­time in the Rames­side Peri­od (1292–1075…

Why Do Filmmakers Call The Battle of Algiers the Greatest War Movie Ever?: Watch It Free Online in Film, History | December 3rd, 2025 Leave a Comment Paul Thomas Ander­son­’s lat­est film, the loose Thomas Pyn­chon adap­ta­tion One Bat­tle After Anoth­er, serves up many a mem­o­rable scene. But for…