The Art of Taking It Slow

Anna Wiener interviews Grant Petersen, the owner of Rivendell Bicycle Works, who has amassed an ardent following by urging people to abandon the spandex and personal bests, get a comfortable bike, and go easy.

Predicting our own demise

Creating society-destabilizing incentives for fun and profit!

What is a Database? Modern Database Types, Examples, and Applications (2025)

What is a database? major database types, real-world examples, key features, and trends for choosing the best database in 2025

Liquid cooling: The next evolution in data center thermal management

Immersion cooling on the horizon

5 Tips for Rebuilding Trust in a Relationship

There are healthy ways to regain that faith in your partner and relationship. Here are five ways to rebuild trust in a relationship.

Building Ultra Cheap Energy Storage for Solar PV

Solar still needs storage cheap enough to move energy between seasons. I have been working on a startup to do this for the last two years.

The MAHA Trend in Groceries Will Backfire

It doesn’t bode well for the American diet.

The brain’s map of the body is surprisingly stable — even after a limb is lost

Study challenges the textbook idea that the brain region that processes body sensations reorganizes itself after limb amputation.

Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s

The bacterium is known to live in Mississippi, but the new cases may expand its range.

Getting Started With Tmux: Absolute Essentials for Beginners

tmux is an excellent productivity tool for pro Linux users who love the terminal. It certainly has a learning curve involved though.

For some people, music doesn’t connect with any of the brain’s reward circuits

Neuroscientists find people who don’t enjoy music, study their brain activity.

Using the fMRI, they were able to see that gambling wins lit up the reward circuit in the 15 people Pallarés suspected of specific musical anhedonia. Music on the other hand, had no effect on reward circuits.

how the different regions in the brain communicated with each other.

Proof That Constraints Can Actually Make You More Creative

Brainstorming, thinking outside the box, working with free reign on a project--they're old creativity maxims, but how well do they really work?

DeepSeek V3.1 Rivals GPT-5 With 685B Parameter Model - Dataconomy

In January 2025, DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, launched R1, an AI model that rivaled top-tier LLMs from OpenAI and Anthropic. Built at a fraction of the

An Interactive Guide to SVG Paths • Josh W. Comeau

SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the element. Unfortunately, it’s also the most inscrutable, with its compact Regex-style syntax. In this tutorial, we’ll demystify this infamous element and see some of the cool things we can do…

NumPy vs SciPy: When to Use Each for Statistical Computing

Learn when to use NumPy vs SciPy for statistical computing with practical examples and decision frameworks.

array operations, simple statistics, and mathematical computations.

probability distributions, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, and specialized statistical procedures. Use SciPy when you need statistical inference, probability calculations, or advanced analytical techniques

The Software Tycoon Scaling AI Education to a Billion Kids

As an elementary school principal, a feared software tycoon, a genial recluse, and a technology zealot determined to redefine childhood for mankind, J

There is always an instrument invention that causes the inflection of a science,

Container Management With Podman

Podman is the Docker alternative from Red Hat. It is similar to Docker. You can easily start using it if you know Docker already.

A Good Rivalry Can Elevate Your Brand

New research shows when to mention a direct competitor in your marketing—and when to avoid it.

We found that referencing a rival competitor in marketing messages generates significantly more consumer engagement—and purchase intentions—than mentioning any other competitor.

How Does the US Use Water?

Water infrastructure often gets less attention and focus than other types of infrastructure.

See something, say something? The science of speaking out

From tattling to whistleblowing, a sociologist explores what drives people to tell on one another

Marines outwitted an AI security camera by hiding in a cardboard box and pretending to be trees

When tasked with defeating an AI programmed to detect human movement, a squad of Marines got creative.

How a Norwegian chemist defeated lead paint

Lead paint was banned. Before that, it was outcompeted by a cheap and safe alternative.

High-Dimensional Survival Analysis: Techniques for Big Data in Time-to-Event Modeling

In this article, we'll move past the textbook Cox model and look at how regularized models, tree-based methods, and deep learning can help survival analysis scale to meet real-world complexity.

Easy Steps To Have PPL Sell Your RV | PPL Motor Homes

Call 1-800-755-4775 to schedule an appointment for a free appraisal of your RV. This will allow PPL to find a qualified buyer for your RV

Vehicle Repair Services at VMS South Charleston WV

Auto, Truck, and RV repair services in our South Charleston WV Repair Shop. List of services at VMS.

319 Top Ecommerce Sites Ranked by User Experience Performance – Baymard

See the ranked UX performance of the 319 leading ecommerce sites in the US and Europe. The chart summarizes 100,000+ UX performance ratings.

How to Run Smart Experiments When You Just Don’t Know

How all good entrepreneurs run experiments at the earliest stages of a business, and how you can use this approach for your own career.

good ‘product conjectures’ have three properties:

They are debatable (that is, it is not immediately obvious that it would work). They are testable (the bet is verifiable using some kind of experiment). They are meaningful (the outcome of the bet, if it works, generates a meaningful impact on some output that leadership cares about).

How to Use Redis with Python

We'll learn how to use Redis in Python with a step-by-step tutorial.

open-source, in-memory data structure store

access to mutable data structures

Features - How to Build a Medieval Castle - Archaeology Magazine - September/October 2025

Why are archaeologists constructing a thirteenth-century fortress in the forests of France?

What If Dynamic Pricing Was Solely Used To Reduce Prices? - RetailWire

Dynamic pricing remains a hotly contested concept in retail, particularly grocery. What if the pricing model was deployed solely to the benefit of consumers?

According to the WSJ, store associates highlight items about to expire, causing an electronic in-house pricing system to check every 15 minutes as to how they are selling, and whether further discounts are needed. The article states, “Prices on any one item are cut a maximum of four times in a day…

, in-store shoppers only see price cuts. Any increases are made when stores are closed.

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Jim Valvano’s ESPYs speech touched hearts. It’s also a masterclass in public speaking

A public speaking expert watched Valvano's speech for the first time and called her dad. “Have you ever seen this?” she asked. “Oh my God."

Lessons from U.S. Army Special Ops on Becoming a Leader

How to cultivate initiative, emotional confidence, imagination, and strategic vision.

That success was measured on multiple scales, including:

Integrity Mental agility Sound judgment Innovation Leads by example Develops others Gets results

Mircus/HyperCat: a python library for cats and hypercats

a python library for cats and hypercats

In Defense Of The Amyloid Hypothesis

A guest post by David Schneider-Joseph

Privacy-Safe Attribution Avoids User Tracking

A new attribution approach uses large sets of anonymized data to infer which channels and campaigns led to conversions.

Writing Your First GPU Kernel in Python with Numba and CUDA - KDnuggets

80x Faster Python? Discover How One Line Turns Your Code Into a GPU Beast!

Celebrating 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show

“It’s had a profound impact on our culture, especially on people who’ve felt different and marginalized.”…

The Weight of a Cell

A single E. coli bacterium weighs about one picogram, 60 million times less than a grain of sand. But how do we know?

Here be dragons: Preventing static damage, latchup, and metastability in the 386

I've been reverse-engineering the Intel 386 processor (from 1985), and I've come across some interesting circuits for the chip's input/outpu...

This Historical Town Just North Of Greenville Is South Carolina's Best-Kept Secret

With ancient mountain ranges and historic trails, Travelers Rest truly gets more beautiful with age.

10 Best Japanese Stationery To Achieve Peak Productivity: Ultimate List For Next-Level Efficiency

Back-to-school shopping usually means grabbing whatever's cheapest at the campus bookstore, but Japanese stationery culture operates on a completely different level. While you're stocking up on basic supplies, Japanese designers are obsessing over how every tiny detail can make…

A shape-changing antenna for more versatile sensing and communication

MIT researchers developed a method to design and fabricate reconfigurable antennas with adjustable frequency ranges. Users can adjust the frequency by squeezing, bending, or stretching the material, making the antenna more versatile for sensing and communication than traditional…

auxetic metamaterials, which can deform into three different geometric states

resonance frequency,

What is AI Inference? A Technical Deep Dive and Top 9 AI Inference Providers (2025 Edition)

What is Artificial Intelligence AI Inference? A Technical Deep Dive and Top 9 AI Inference Providers (2025 Edition)

Why We Spiral - by Gregory M. Walton - Behavioral Scientist

Questions of who we are or what we’re worth can send us into a tailspin. But the very same processes that pull us down can propel us up, too.

Why Knights Fought Snails in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

The snail may leave a trail of slime behind him, but a little slime will do a man no harm... whilst if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn. - George R. R. Martin, The Mystery Knight As any Game of Thrones fan knows, being a knight has its downsides.

The systemd Playbook: Learn by Doing

Master systemd the practical way—one lab at a time.

ngafar/llama-scan: Transcribe PDFs with local LLMs

Transcribe PDFs with local LLMs

Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians and Hessians – Oh My!

This article explains how these four things fit together and shows some examples of what they are used for. Derivatives Derivatives are the most fundamental concept in calculus. If you have a funct…