We’re about to take a trip back in time to the early 1960s and learn how a $40 drugstore camera forced NASA to rethink its space missions. Yes, it’s true. A simple camera purchased at the local drugstore played a pivotal role in shaping the future of space exploration and set the stage for space…
"The Appointment in Samarra" (W. Somerset Maugham's version) "The Appointment in Samarra" (as retold by W. Somerset Maugham [1933]) The speaker is Death There was a merchant in Bagdad who sent his ser
When we think of the teak town of Nilambur in Kerala’s Malappuram district, the images conjured are of varying shades of green, India’s first teak museum, world’s oldest teak plantations, and the rock
A screenshot of the Arthur operating system. Guidebook Gallery The first Archimedes models shipped in June of 1987, some of them still sporting the BBC branding. The computers were definitely fast, an
Clean skies, high altitude and complete darkness are vital for India’s cutting-edge astronomical observatory in Ladakh’s Hanle village. Jacob Koshy reports on the challenges in having it declared an I
In the days leading up to 9 April 1975, the sedate capital of an autonomous Himalayan kingdom became a fortress. In and around Gangtok, troops belonging to neighbouring India were mobilised on a large
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Years ago, I asked a friend what kind of case she planned to buy for her shiny new flip phone. She paused, a little offended. “I don't like to buy stuff for my stuff,” she said. Those words drilled di
By Hunter S. Thompson Page 2 columnist It was just after dawn in Woody Creek, Colo., when the first plane hit the World Trade Center in New York City on Tuesday morning, and as usual I was writing abo
Tom Clancy, the best-selling author of military thrillers, died Tuesday at the age of 66. What better way to celebrate his life than to publish the CIA's very own tribute to him? Bestselling Author To
MacKenzie Scott, the author and philanthropist, says she has given away more than $4 billion in the last four months. "This pandemic has been a wrecking ball in the lives of Americans already struggli
Author's Note: Have you been looking for a detailed-but-accessible case study of the Russian cyberespionage campaign that targeted SolarWinds (among others)? The following piece is adapted from my new
This article started out as an internal conversation on a thread around how our team could learn to ask and give feedback more mindfully. It explores how we can balance making decisions quickly while
A little while before she died – when it seemed she might have almost any amount of time left, from days to months – I screwed up my courage and suggested to my mother that, given that she was 82 and
Part One On November 21, 2018, Dependra Pathak, director general of police in the Andamans and Nicobars, an archipelago of paradise islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, issued a press release he
How Much Land Does a Man Need? I An elder sister came to visit her younger sister in the country. The elder was married to a tradesman in town, the younger to a peasant in the village. As the sisters
What Is Intelligence, Anyway? By Isaac Asimov What is intelligence, anyway? When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160
Gregable .com Why you should learn just a little Awk: An Awk tutorial by Example Sep 29, 2010 In grad school, I once saw a prof I was working with grab a text file and in seconds manipulate it into li
I am in my 100 th year. When I was born in 1916 in Amsterdam, New York, Woodrow Wilson was our president. My parents, who could not speak or write English, were emigrants from Russia. They were part o
Preoccupations What I Learned From a Stroke at 26: Make Time to Untangle Credit... Nguyen Tran As an idealistic, knowledge-hungry college graduate and aspiring writer, I had grown tired of hopping fro
Intro Okay developers, time to have a serious talk. As you are probably already aware, this week React, Babel, and a bunch of other high-profile packages on NPM broke. The reason they broke is rather
It was a tense autumn day. We were playing cricket with a tennis ball at an abandoned industrial area, when the crackle of a transistor caught our attention. Delighted to see us, Shafi was brandishing
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On April 17, a paper arrived in the inbox of Annals of Mathematics, one of the discipline’s preeminent journals. Written by a mathematician virtually unknown to the experts in his field — a 50-somethi
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Here's a little fairytale from Pakistan . Fourteen years ago a wise man ruled the country. He enjoyed the support of his people. But some of his treacherous generals thought he wasn't that smart. One night he was held at gunpoint, handcuffed, put in a dark dungeon, sentenced to life imprisonment.…
Op-Ed Contributor My Medical Choice LOS ANGELES MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and…
Why would you need a map of the Internet? The Internet is not like the Grand Canyon. It is not a destination in a voyage that requires so many right turns and so many left turns. The Internet, as the name suggests and many of you already know, is nothing but the sum of decentralized connections…
WHEN you throw out your Christmas wrapping paper this year, don’t tell Narayanan Menon and Anne Dominique Cambou. You’ll be throwing away examples of their painstaking research. That’s because they study the physics of crumpled balls of paper, which contain deeper mysteries than you might expect.…
A bill containing harsher punishments for rapists was passed by India’s parliament earlier in March. Karuna Nundy, a leading Supreme Court lawyer, explains the new laws.
Why change the law? Reacting to the massive protests that followed the fatal gang rape of a student in Delhi last December, the…
Urvashi Butalia has been at the forefront of the feminist movement in India for many years. This essay, which appears in the just published collection, Of Mothers And Others: Stories, Essays, Poems, edited by Jaishree Misra , is a meditation on her life as a single woman and her decision to not have…
Loading... Leading teams Comment 8.95 Buy Copies Loading... You are holding your weekly team leadership meeting. You are discussing with your direct reports how to handle the project delays that have caused the team to miss its quarterly numbers. You know that Ted — one of your direct reports —…
Credit Illustration by Michael Gillette On August 17, 2010, I got an e-mail from Facebook notifying me that I had received a message. It was from my ex-boyfriend’s mother. Its subject heading was “Goodbye from Nancy and Bill.” Nancy and Bill are my ex-boyfriend’s parents, though I’ve changed their…
The walk of shame Enlarge / What could possibly be wrong? Remember when I said that I was no expert at this stuff? Well, I'm about to prove it. Each of the wordlist files I had downloaded were ".bz2" files—that is, bzip2 compressed files. Now, I had recognized this, but I had not bothered to…
It’s not often that one has the opportunity to be the target of a cyber and kinetic attack at the same time. But that is exactly what’s happened to me and my Web site over the past 24 hours. On Thursday afternoon, my site was the target of a fairly massive denial of service attack. That attack was…
Opinion Living With Less. A Lot Less. Credit Maxwell Holyoke-Hirsch I LIVE in a 420-square-foot studio. I sleep in a bed that folds down from the wall. I have six dress shirts. I have 10 shallow bowls that I use for salads and main dishes. When people come over for dinner, I pull out my extendable…
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