Gamma-ray bursts are the most violent explosions in the universe. In a fraction of a second, they can release more energy than the sun will emit across its entire 10-billion-year lifetime. Most are over before you've had time to register them, gone in seconds, minutes at most…
Joe Hogan, Align Technology’s plastics-nerd CEO, says you shouldn’t eat with your aligners and that you don’t need to wear your retainers every night.
For 20 years, Dutch art detective Arthur Brand has acted as an intermediary between the police and people who know where stolen artwork might be hiding. He says patience and trust are everything.
An underrated strategy for urbanist persuasion, powered by open source tools
Well-written informational microcopy should be clear, concise, and have character.
Mistral's Small 4 combines reasoning, multimodal analysis and agentic coding in a single open-source model with configurable inference effort, offering enterprises a lower-cost alternative to running separate models for each task.
Practical ways to structure blog content so it’s easier to read, holds attention, and leads readers toward action.
1. Hook the reader
2. Make promises and deliver on them
Ever caught yourself saying “I’m reading a great book” only to awkwardly correct yourself with “…well, actually I’m listening to it”? That guilty pause says a lot. But you have nothing to feel bad about. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman, Dr. Bob Duke…
Several platforms are emerging as alternatives to Pinterest for creative professionals seeking inspiration and organization, reflecting a shift toward more
A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s has been digitized and made available online for free listening.
Your users judge your product before they understand it. Within the first 30 seconds, the brain has already made a decision. No feature, no UI polish, and no clever copy can override a broken first impression. Here's what's really happening inside the user's mind, and how to win…
"A deep pink that is bluer, lighter, and stronger than average coral, bluer than fiesta, and bluer and stronger than sweet william."
A new lithium refining method uses electrochemistry to cut waste and energy use, easing a key bottleneck for electric vehicles.
LLM calls are black boxes in production. Learn how to add structured observability to your RubyLLM-powered app with OpenTelemetry.
Nvidia's KV Cache Transform Coding (KVTC) compresses LLM key-value cache by 20x without model changes, cutting GPU memory costs and time-to-first-token by up to 8x for multi-turn AI applications.
The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a person’s sense of chance, of fate?
Train your own model with Unsloth, an open-source framework for LLM fine-tuning and reinforcement learning.
Most people fail on Reddit because they write comments like ads. Reddit eats ads for breakfast. It's better to follow a Reddit comment framework that
The beings people often meet while using psychedelics resist tidy explanations.
The annotation, recruitment, grounding, display, and won gates determine which content AI engines trust and recommend. Here’s how it works.
Here’s how a mathematical paradox distorts our view of news, safety and statistics
Welsh police learned this lesson the hard way during the 2017 Union of European Football Associations Champions League final. They deployed cameras throughout Cardiff, where the soccer event was held, and used automated facial-recognition software to analyze the footage. The software scanned the…
Despite the initial hype, insect agriculture is facing the economic realities of competing with the traditional meat industry.
Here's the handout I prepared for my NICAR 2026 workshop "Coding agents for data analysis" - a three hour session aimed at data journalists demonstrating ways that tools like Claude …
In a culture driven by outrage and constant alerts, play may be the simplest way to reclaim focus, resilience, and human connection.
How science can get it right and still miss the point.
No one in the Story Station actually questioned the character of refinery workers. In fact, Philly Thrive members went out of their way to affirm workers’ need for jobs.
Compare Bennett’s approach to that of refinery workers.
Learn five Pandas functions that dramatically simplify common data manipulation tasks and replace lengthy manual code.
ChatGPT helps you get answers, find inspiration, and be more productive.
One of television’s most important business models, first-run syndication to local TV stations looking to fill airtime, might be losing strea … er, steam.
Private Reinsurance, IRGC Fragmentation, Interceptor Depletion, and a Dead Nuclear Fatwa Have Produced a Crisis No Military Victory Can Resolve
I put together a new LLM Architecture Gallery that collects the architecture figures from my recent comparison articles in one place, together with compact fact sheets and links.
Python loses every public benchmark by 21-875x. I took the exact problems people use to dunk on Python and climbed every rung of the optimization ladder -- from CPython version upgrades to Rust. Real numbers, real code, real effort costs.
Operation Breakthrough, a 1970s federal moonshot to build 26 million homes using advanced manufacturing methods, has lessons for today’s abundance movement.
Looking at Nvidia's latest effort to make a big iGPU
The motorhome has always had an identity problem on wheels. It is supposed to feel like home, but most of the time it looks and feels like neither a proper vehicle nor a proper house. It sits awkwardly in that middle ground, too big to be elegant and too cramped to be genuinely…
In the wake of the Cold War, some Soviet bloc spies decided their fake American lives weren’t so bad.
TSMC N3 Wafer Shortages, Memory Constraints, Datacenter Bottlenecks, Supply Chain Wars Winner
Detect your hardware and find out which AI models you can run locally. GPU, CPU, and RAM analysis in your browser.
Quick reference for Python 3 syntax, data types, string and list methods, control flow, functions, file I/O, and exception handling.
While some bacteriophages play vital roles in laboratory research, others are bent on sabotage.
€150m investment stems from European Chips Act as part of PIXEurope consortium
Interconnect efficiency is now essential and photonics can help
Dignity is core to our humanity and woven into our sense of agency, authenticity, and the way others treat us, yet what it looks and feels like shifts across cultures, circumstances, and relationships. In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head, Dr. Art Markman, Dr. Bob Duke, and…
"85 million US packages arrived damaged in 2024, a 30% increase. BackOps deploys AI agents that accelerate customer response times by 93% and automatically file 100% of eligible carrier claims."
Many startups chase product-market fit as if it’s a moment of discovery. But for deep-tech founders, the journey is often much longer.
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The federal government has selected eight proposals to test electric aircraft across 26 states.
How shopping became a game of snagging mediocre, limited-run products
Generally speaking, a drop is just a slightly different way of releasing products.
and to prioritize avoiding loss over gaining rewards