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In a world filled with scams, being wary makes perfect sense. But health, trust and decision-making can suffer when the fear of getting conned goes too far.
The Geopolitics of Black Sludge Processing
Kevin Dowdell, a lieutenant in an elite FDNY rescue unit, taught his sons to take action. When he disappeared on 9/11, they went to Ground Zero to search for him.
There is a specific quality to well-made Japanese stationery that is difficult to name and easy to recognize. It is not about price or brand recognition. It is the sense that the object was designed by someone who used a pen every single day and got quietly frustrated with…
The first time I saw Threehalves, I did a double take. Seven feet tall, four-legged, with a horned goat head and glowing eyes, it looks less like a piece of modern engineering and more like something conjured from ancient mythology. It's the kind of design that makes you laugh…
Explore West Virginia's highest lake, where trout fishing, camping, mountain scenery, and dark night skies make for a memorable outdoor escape.
Section 2 of Chapter 5: Why the diagram succeeds when a sentence may fail, and how different modalities work in cognition?
A genetic study shows how smell capabilities were maintained in a hunter-gatherer population
Like many American stories, the story of the National Parks begins with pillage, death, deep cultural misunderstanding, and venture capitalism. According to Ken Burns’ film series The National Parks:
It’s often assumed people lose their minds in a crowd. Research on riots, festivals and sports tells a more uplifting story
Plastic has long been the default choice for packaging because of its durability, flexibility, and low cost. Today, however, designers are proving that high-performance packaging does not have to come at the expense of the environment. Advances in renewable materials, circular…
Seaweed packaging films, molded pulp, mono-material packaging, compostable foams, and dissolvable packaging
Seaweed
In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation. Columnist Claire L. Evans follows the neuroscientists who attempted to recapture the magic.
In the 1960s, an eccentric behavioral psychologist named James McConnell convinced the scientific establishment that planarian worms, like Pavlov’s dogs, could be classically conditioned — and that memories of this training could be transferred from worm to worm through cannibalism. These bizarre…
an ai agent for the socially expensive work of organizational dissent
A reflection on the Tenth Man Rule, a form of institutionalised devil's advocacy. How can we benefit from a professional pain in the neck?
Coffee has become one of the most effective tools retailers have for encouraging customers to stay longer and engage more deeply with a space
A clear, math-first walkthrough of how VAEs learn to generate new data
fMRI scans show happiness, fear, anger, and sadness have distinct brain activity patterns in doggy brains.
Decline and renaissance in El Segundo
Discover Snowflake Postgres Mirroring. Learn how push-based change data capture delivers transactional replication to your data lake with zero lag.
Sometimes dubbed the 'pleasure chemical', dopamine is often wildly misunderstood. Nikolay Kukushkin delves into what the much-discussed neurotransmitter really does to our brains.
If you take the weight difference between a reasoning model and its non-reasoning instruct counterpart, and then apply more of that difference to the…
Because I am known to write using a fountain pen on paper, a number of people have pointed me to this post and its underlying research. I won’t rehash what is said in those sources, but the gist of it is that when you write things down by hand you’re recruiting more of your…
Sunday School: Starlink and Link-Budget 101! There are many people who think that SpaceX can do d2d indoors but "Ye cannae change the law of physics". RF is RF, from a satellite 550km away, or a Cell site 1km away. Your phone needs a signal above around -110dBm for a poor…
Inside the kitchens of home cooks who are dreaming up everything from “urban tacos” to gumbo pot pie.
Working with and living in spatially complex environments may help delay cognitive decline, though more research is needed.
What conductors actually do
Over the past 20 years, Talenti has changed from a small, independent brand to a piece of a corporate conglomerate. Has that affected its quality?
While AI makes it easy to create prototypes, these are often not fully functional products. A real product requires users, a market, and solves real problems.
On what is left to do once the machine can make anything, and why taste is the last craft worth keeping.
How we used SKIP LOCKED, composite primary keys, and connection visibility to hit our scale targets.
SemiAnalysis thinks the DeepMind shakeup means Google is losing the AI race. It might be that Google is choosing to run a different race.
Chinese accounts for just 1.3% of global web content. Beijing is now treating data as strategic infrastructure, with a 2028 plan to build national AI datasets.
When D-Wave bought Quantum Circuits for $550 million in the early days of this year, it marked a sig ...
How we tracked down "The Spider" who was once one of the most-feared men in Syria.
If humans are to spend more time in space, scientists need to understand how life in microgravity affects eating and drinking
While AI roots back to 1956 with the foundational Dartmouth Conference, the field has transformed more in the last 9 years than in the 60 years prior. We went from fundamental sequence-to-sequence transformers to 3-trillion-parameter reasoning engines and standardized…
After 15 years of research, scientists discover definitive evidence of glueballs using the Beijing Electron Positron Collider II.
Travel to the wide grasslands where the Scythians once roamed, and you’ll discover how their culture still shapes Eurasia today.
Noisey selects four of the greatest hip-hop movie soundtracks of the 90s, arguably the golden age for Black cinema and rap alike.
TikTok owner training a model three times larger than Moonshot’s Kimi K3
Tensors are used all over math and science to reveal hidden geometric truths. What are they?
The forlorn remains of a late Cold War radar installation are decaying in the Oregon desert
A fundamental law of human language has now been found in both songbirds and whales
Roulette is one of the most popular casino games of all time, with a rich history dating back to the 1600s. Over the years, the game of roulette has evolved significantly, to the point where it can today be enjoyed on both online casino platforms and in land-based casinos…
There's a fun anecdote from Accenture (apparently via leaked meeting audio recordings) in this 404 Media piece from June 24th: “We’re seeing from some of the data internally at least …