The Man Who Went to War With Canada

For centuries, the United States and Canada’s only remaining land border dispute has been kept alive by a single family.

A Bizarre 1970 Arctic Killing Offers a Road Map for How Not to Deal With Mu

Murder will happen in outer space. This 50-year-old death on a now-melted chunk of ice shows how complicated it will get.

Imagining vs Seeing | NeuroLogica Blog

Try to conjure up a mental image of a bicycle (without referencing a picture). Better yet, try to draw a bicycle. Most people (75% or more) cannot draw an accurate bicycle from memory. There are a lot of layers here. First, people tend to grossly overestimate their specific or…

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Additive Manufacturing Movement | 2020 Trends Report

Meet the manufacturers capitalizing on 3D printing today, and find out how they are transforming their design and production workflows with additive.

DDR5 Memory Specification Released: Setting the Stage for DDR5-6400 And Bey

https://salman.io/posts/polymath-playbook/

Eigenquestions: The Art of Framing Problems

A handbook for how to become an expert at framing problems.

Why clothes are so hard to recycle

Fast fashion is leading to a mountain of clothing being thrown away each year and has a huge impact on the environment, so can we turn our unwanted garments into something useful?

The Dangerous Undersea Search for Missing Military Heroes

From the English Channel to the Pacific, one band of volunteer divers look for the remains of American M.I.A.s. I joined and discovered this mission can be perilous — even deadly.

Nautilus | Science Connected

Nautilus is a different kind of science magazine. Our stories take you into the depths of science and spotlight its ripples in our lives and cultures.

The Political Education of Killer Mike

How Michael Render—a rapper from Atlanta who also happens to be a Second Amendment–loving, Bernie Sanders–boosting, unapologetically pro-Black businessman—became one of the loudest and most original political voices in the country.

An Icy Conquest | Susan Dunn

“We are starved! We are starved!” the sixty skeletal members of the English colony of Jamestown cried out in desperation as two ships arrived with provisions in June 1610. They suffered from exhaustion, starvation, and malnutrition as well as from a strange sickness that “caused…

From cow to customer, a $20 cheeseburger’s tumultuous journey during a pandemic

A cash-strapped rancher, a virus-stricken meatpacker, an underpaid chef, a hungry engineer: All their lives have been upended

An 'Extinction Hotspot' in Appalachia

The discovery of a lost plant species highlights the need to protect other endangered species in one of the most biodiverse regions in the U.S.

Wafer Capacity 2019 By Region

In its Global Wafer Capacity 2020-2024 report, IC Insights breaks down the world’s installed monthly IC wafer capacity by geographic region (or country). Figure 1 shows the installed IC capacity by region as of December of 2019. To clarify what the data represents, each regional…

Want to build a side business? Just buy a great Domain Name | Deep South Ve

[updated April, 2022] So you wanna start a side business while holding down a full-time job. Kool. Dang smart move – that’s the same route I took – ten years ago now. Self-funded, no VC to appease, no angel investor to update. Just you, and your sandbox of ambition. Hmm, but…

Hyperapp • The tiny framework for building web interfaces

1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications - jorgebucaran/hyperapp

Commands for Viewing and Sorting Files

In the last few posts, we looked at I/O Redirection and Piping in Linux System. Today we are going t...

The 10 Useful Networking Commands You Should Know

Learn about useful networking commands that are pre-installed on your computer and will help you know everything about a website.

Pay Attention: The Art of Noticing - Adobe 99U

FORTH-ModelBasedTracker/MocapNET: We present MocapNET, an ensemble of SNN e

We present MocapNET, a real-time method that estimates the 3D human pose directly in the popular Bio Vision Hierarchy (BVH) format, given estimations of the 2D body joints originating from monocula...

Rails Application Templates — Ruby on Rails Guides

Rails Application TemplatesApplication templates are simple Ruby files containing DSL for adding gems, initializers, etc. to your freshly created Rails project or an existing Rails project.After reading this guide, you will know: How to use templates to generate/customize Rails…

On Knowing the Winged Whale | Hakai Magazine

Humpbacks are some of the most watched whales in the world, and yet so much of their lives remains a mystery.

Unlucky Charms: The Rise and Fall of Billion-Dollar Jewelry Empire Alex and Ani

Astrology, private equity, a $1.1 billion gender discrimination lawsuit, and a precariously built bangle behemoth

The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary: A Fable About Following Your Dream: Coelho

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The Historian: Kostova, Elizabeth: 9780316070638: Amazon.com: Books

The Historian [Kostova, Elizabeth] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Historian

A Mathematician’s Guide to How Contagion Spreads

Adam Kucharski wrote The Rules of Contagion before Covid-19. He talks about misinformation, bank failures, and coming up with hypotheses during a crisis.

How Cars and Hygiene Killed the Middle-Class Hat | by Hanna Brooks Olsen |

Don’t blame JFK

Ashoka’s ethical infrastructure is carved into India’s rocks | Aeon Essays

Being good is hard. How an ancient Indian emperor, horrified by the cruelty of war, created an infrastructure of goodness

How Dixie cups became the breakout startup of the 1918 pandemic

Dixie cups were the Zoom of the 1918 pandemic, and they can teach startups a lot about adapting and surviving during hard times.

Produce your own physical chips. For free. In the Open.

Did you ever dream about creating your own physical chip? Do it today. For free. Fully open source.

openhwgroup/cva6: The CORE-V CVA6 is an Application class 6-stage RISC-V CP

The CORE-V CVA6 is an Application class 6-stage RISC-V CPU capable of booting Linux - openhwgroup/cva6

Google open-sources Tsunami vulnerability scanner

Google says Tsunami is an extensible network scanner for detecting high-severity vulnerabilities with as little false-positives as possible.

Managing risk with the NASA Risk Matrix

“It’s not rocket science!” people often say. Well, sometimes, projects can be so complex, making the right decision does feel akin to rocket science. Who better to turn to than one of the biggest space agencies in the world to learn how to manage risk? There are few…

SymPy - a Python library for symbolic mathematics

A Brief History of the Lawn Chair

How a simple aluminum chair became an American icon.

Spike Map

Estimated population by county, 2016. See also the bubble map as an alternative presentation of this data, and an alternative implementation with Observable Plot. Data: American Community Survey This dataset comes from the U.S. Census API and contains three columns: the…

Entropy, Cross-Entropy, and KL-Divergence Explained!

Let us try to understand the most widely used loss function — Cross-Entropy.

Open source process design kit for usage with SkyWater Foundry's 130nm node

Open source process design kit for usage with SkyWater Technology Foundry's 130nm node. - google/skywater-pdk

CapRover · Scalable, Free and Self-hosted PaaS!

Scalable, Free and Self-hosted PaaS!

Part 5: Fast Approximate Matrix Profiles with STUMPY

Roughly Accurate Matrix Profiles Computed in a Fraction of the Time

The Not-So-Simple Life

The farm-to-table frenzy has thousands of urbanites trading in their desks for the idylls of agriculture. But one eager young couple learns the hard way that organic utopia is easier dreamed than achieved.

The Stranger-Than-Fiction Secret History of Prog-Rock Icon Rick Wakeman

The Yes keyboardist defined Spinal Tap–esque excess, until he staked everything on his eccentric dream of an Arthurian rock opera on ice. Now, the tale of his epic spiral and long, slow comeback can finally be told.

Debt: the First 5000 Years

I recently read Debt: the First 5000 Years by David Graeber, and it has stuck on my mind for a while. It’s one of those “Everybody is wrong about X, here is what you’ve missed in plain sight” -type…

The Wondrous Lives of Julius Shapiro

He was a Lower East Side gangster, wartime chemical researcher and secretive color television pioneer. An inquisitive daughter wants the full story, but he would rather drink his coffee and read his book in peace.

Calculus for the Beginner— Building Calculus, Piece by Piece

Understanding the beauty of calculus

What’s After PAM-4?

Second of two parts: Parallel vs. serial options

The Jewel of the Matrix: A Deep Dive Into Eigenvalues & Eigenvectors

An intuitive look at the abstract concept