The Passion Economy: A Conversation with Adam Davidson

How to navigate a new economy where developing your passion can be a path to success.

A Guide to 'Nduja: Italy's Funky, Spicy, Spreadable Salume

The funky, salty, magical salume that will change how you cook.

New Cryptography Method Promising Perfect Secrecy Is Met With Skepticism

An international team claims its perfect secrecy cryptography is made unbreakable by physics

What To Do If People Hate Your Brand Mascot

Does your website have a mascot that the audience isn’t responding well to or that outright hates it? Or maybe your new client has brought along a mascot that you’re unsure about? If a mascot’s design or messaging isn’t on point with an audience, there’s no sense in keeping it…

The Number Ones: The Knack’s “My Sharona”

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. *** The Knack – “My Sharona” HIT #1: August 25, 1979 STAYED AT #1: 6 weeks There really was a…

In a Life-or-Death Crisis, Humility Is Everything - WSJ

Airline pilot Alfred Haynes and other leaders who’ve saved lives show that modest people can achieve miracles under pressure.

Prisoner’s Dilemma: Is Cooperation Always the Right Answer?

In this classic game theory experiment, you must decide: rat out another for personal benefit, or cooperate? The answer may be more complicated than you think.

How I Learned French in 12 Months | wes1350.github.io

(Also posted on Medium)

An app can be a home-cooked meal

I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.

The Secret Language of Signs (2010)

Three years ago today, the 33 members of the Bluffton University baseball team boarded a bus at their campus in Bluffton, Ohio. It was early evening, a ...

How to Take Smart Notes: 10 Principles to Revolutionize Your Note-Taking

I long ago stopped reading books on note-taking. They were always too vague and boring, full of platitudes that had little to do with the world outside

64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review

Guide to CSS Units for Relative Spacing

Space Relative to the Document :root Use: rem Unless you change it, the default rem value...

Serving GPT-2 in Google Cloud Platform

A CloudOps Journey

The Guerrilla Car Washers of N.Y.C.

Development is finally coming to the top of Manhattan. Are its carwash vans doomed?

He Is Building a Home. And a Career in the N.B.A.

Pat Connaughton, a reserve guard for the Milwaukee Bucks, is forging his own path in basketball while continuing a family tradition of working in real estate.

The geology and geophysics of Kuiper Belt object (486958) Arrokoth

Stereo images of Arrokoth (2014 MU69) are used to map its geological units and date its surface using impact craters.

Printing Money

Visualize the flow of money

Never Mind the Internet. Here’s What’s Killing Malls.

Yes, the internet has changed the way we shop. But taken together, other factors have caused greater harm to traditional retail stores, an economist says.

Your Speech Is Packed With Misunderstood, Unconscious Messages

Have you ever found yourself counting ums and uhs?

The Donkey Farmer’s Magical Matchmaking Book

In the era of online dating, one septuagenarian Irishman clings tight to a method passed down through the generations—and thousands of happy couples are luckier for it.

Build a Raspberry Pi NAS — The MagPi magazine

Got a lot of digital stuff? Make it available anywhere in your home with your own Raspberry Pi network-attached storage

Stream Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram's Scorching Kiss-Off, 'Empty Promises'

The young blues-guitar wonder shares an emotionally raw new song ahead of Valentine's Day.

The quest to explore Colombia’s untouched jungle

Colombia is on a mission to make sense of its rich biodiversity, isolated thanks to years of war. For researchers, it is a golden opportunity – and a breathtaking adventure.

Emotional Intelligence: The Social Skills You Weren’t Taught in School

How well do you recognize and understand your emotions? What about the emotions of those around you?

bhive/README.md at master · ithemal/bhive

The Secret of Mystery Science Theater 3000’s Success

Dumb movies, smart jokes, repeat.

Memory Bandwidth Napkin Math

An exploration into C++ memory throughput performance.

The Grand Unified Theory of Rogue Waves | Quanta Magazine

Rogue waves — enigmatic giants of the sea — were thought to be caused by two different mechanisms. But a new idea that borrows from the hinterlands of probability theory has the potential to predict…

10 of the coolest neighbourhoods in Europe

There are must-sees, of course, but to really get under the skin of Europe’s great cities go for our pick of less-touristy districts

SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python | Natu

Nature Methods - This Perspective describes the development and capabilities of SciPy 1.0, an open source scientific computing library for the Python programming language.

Generate - Coolors.co

View and edit this palette on Coolors.co or create your own color schemes.

teivah/algodeck: Algo Deck is an Open-Source Collection of 200 Algorithmic

An Open-Source Collection of 200+ Flash Cards to Help You Preparing Your Algorithms & Data Structures Interview 💯 - teivah/algodeck

How Bullwinkle Taught Kids Sophisticated Political Satire

Culture critic Beth Daniels argues the cartoon moose even allowed viewers to reckon with nuclear war

Gini coefficient

In economics, the Gini coefficient, also known as the Gini index or Gini ratio, is a measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the income inequality, the wealth inequality, or the consumption inequality within a nation or a social group. It was developed by Italian…

Link, streamline icon

Download this link icon in outline style from the iOS optimized category. Available in PNG and SVG formats. No signup required.

How to Get a Stronger Support Grip for Deadlifts and Hangs

When you first start doing deadlifts, you’re probably thinking about how hard they are for your back, your butt, your legs. But once the motion is sec

The Activation Drill You Need to Try Before Upper Body Workouts

You won't be able to use much weight at all, but you'll still feel like Superman.

Why your next TV needs ‘filmmaker mode’

TVs this year will ship with a new feature called "filmmaker mode," but unlike the last dozen things the display industry has tried to foist on consumers, this one actually matters. It doesn't magically turn your living room into a movie theater, but it's an important step in…

The Best Board Games of the Ancient World

Thousands of years before Monopoly, people were playing games like Senet, Patolli and Chaturanga

The Hidden Signs That Can Reveal a Fake Photo

A picture may say a thousand words, but what if the photograph has been fabricated? There are ways to spot a fake – you just have to look closely enough.

This product has an unpronounceable name. Now what? (from Ask HN)

177K subscribers in the ProductManagement community. Product Management

Old-Fashioned Recipe

The old-fashioned is one of the oldest mixed drinks in the cocktail canon (Original name: whiskey cocktail, which became old-fashioned whiskey cocktail, and then just old-fashioned.) It is a stirred drink, usually built in the glass in which it is served Both rye and bourbon are…

Keeping the Country — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

In southwest Florida, the Myakka River Valley — a place of mystery and myth — is under threat of development.

The Family That Couldn’t Say Hippopotamus

The origins of language are not what inherited disorders seemed to suggest.

Xeus is now a Jupyter subproject

The Xeus project has been incorporated as a Jupyter subproject.

A startup built around building materials: Yesler marketplace is like Exped

Matt Meyers spent two decades at Weyerhaeuser dealing with product engineering, manufacturing, software engineering, product development, sales and

A Material That Throws Heat into Space Could Soon Reinvent Air-Conditioning

A radiative cooling technology could help cut energy consumption in new buildings by nearly 70 percent—and significantly shave demand in existing structures, too.

50 Slow-Cooker Recipes to Set & Forget

Because at the end of the day, comfort cooking will always mean comfort food.

How I Started A $30K/Month Business Selling Custom Trade Show Booths

Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?My name is Ryan Schortmann and I’m the founder of Display Pros. We are a custom trade show display booth company offering easy to use portable display “kits” for small and medium businesses wanting to get into the trade show…