few analysts have sought to dissect how China’s market share of unglamorous bulk raw material inputs and intermediates across its minerals, metallurgy, and chemicals sectors actually directly enables their market share in these finished, shiny consumer products.
In reality, metals and chemicals production require muscular industrial policy of their own to succeed
A New York City councilman’s Instagram post is just the latest entry in a fierce debate about the price of dining out.
How the discovery of altermagnets could change physics and computing
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Spin makes an electron behave like a little rotating ball of charge, which furnishes it with a magnetic field similar to that of a tiny bar magnet.
At Givaudan and IFF, chemists build—and safeguard—new aroma molecules tightly linked to emotion and memory
Modern luxury watches can be traced back to one of Napoleon Bonaparte’s younger sisters
Reference for the ufw command on Linux, with examples for enabling the firewall, allowing and denying traffic, deleting rules, and managing application profiles.
Once America's most promising movie theater chain, the Alamo Drafthouse has become a QR-coded symbol of corporate enshittification.
The .claude folder is created by tools that integrate with Claude to store local state. It keeps track of how the model behaves inside your project and that includes configuration, cached data, task definitions, and sometimes context that helps the system stay consistent across…
Widely referred to as the queen of textiles in the ancient world, silk helped to transform ancient China in myriad ways.
Two good ideas and one bad mistake
How the Soviet Union inverted the logic of empire, and why it explains everything Russia does today.
Reminding yourself that you have choices can help you counter more aggressively and reduce anchoring in negotiations.
Build Awesome is a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy, backed by a successful $40k Kickstarter. But this attempt to monetize static site generators repeats the same mistakes that killed Gatsby and Stackbit—and misunderstands who actually builds static sites.
A new estimate puts the cost of dealing with robocalls, hidden fees and customer service chatbots that can’t solve most problems at $165 billion.
Why did Allbirds fail to make it in the retail market?
Passive radar is radar that doesn't need a transmitter; it uses existing broadcasts of opportunity.
Quick reference for querying DNS records and checking name resolution with nslookup
With performance three times better than copper’s, this new material could substantially improve heat management of electronics, data centers and energy systems
Dig into what causes the tip of the tongue phenomenon, where your brain struggles to recall a word or term from memory.--You’re sure you know your 3rd grade ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDaVPfpQvPI Times have changed so much, we’ve got people walking on the streets with their ANC turned on to zone out, but are unaware of the risks motorists can pose. With active noise-cancelling headphones becoming increasingly common, the sounds…
In an era of AI-generated-everything, AI-fatigued users want designs that look like they were made by a person.
Tested, ranked, and ready to use
Container images are meant to simplify everything. You grab one, start it and your application starts running. There should be
CAR-T cell therapy, originally developed for cancer, is showing ever more promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases.
The ultimate ghost ship mystery
Modern cars are starting to operate on robot architecture, and that foreshadows how such architecture will spread to every industry that moves physical things.
Every excavator, crane, and forklift runs on hydraulics. RISE Robotics is building the electrified alternative.
We can’t let the most important medical achievement of a decade slip through our fingers.
18 years of school trained you to answer questions. In real life? That ruins conversations. Someone says, "You're always late." You answer, "No I'm not!"—and boom, fight starts. Instead, try this: "I understand." Repeat what they said in your own words. Then ask an open…
Powertrain chief Jon Wagner explains why integration beats invention
Explore Sigmoid vs ReLU activation functions and how losing geometric context affects neural network efficiency and depth.
OpenAI's Sora allowed you to deepfake yourself. Users started to remember things that never happened.
Keeping up with a fast changing revolutionary technology is very scary. Here are some ruthless guidelines for how to make sense of it effectively.
I was driving with my brother, the preacher, and my nephew, the preacher’s son, on I-65 just north of Bowling Green when we got a flat. It was Sunday night and we had been to visit Mother at the Home. We were in my car. The flat caused what you might call knowing groans since…
Copyright, Terry Bisson, 1991 Originally published in OMNI, 1991, and featured in HARPER’S and around the internet since. It has even made its way into several books on consciousness and brain science. I’m surprised, pleased, and proud. But please do not reprint, perform, alter…
Easy and intuitive Kalman Filter tutorial
Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns.
The 20 most-changed files in the last year.
Every contributor ranked by commit count.
The New Orleans writer Nancy Lemann conjures scenes of booze-soaked calamity, where everyone and everything is on the verge of rot, Brandy Jensen writes.
Small signals of warmth can dramatically change how people respond to you.
Anonymity has become part of a lucrative brand for the artist Banksy, but records we unearthed prove his true identity and show the new name he used to travel to Ukraine.
Saving the Girl with Dementia: It takes a family to drive research for a rare disease forward.
Physics-based digital models of human organs can predict clinical outcomes and provide better guidance for lifesaving procedures.
ADHD isn’t merely a dysfunction. It’s best understood as an impulsive motivational drive for novel information
Sensor networks could improve capacity faster than they grow
Tickling may be evolutionarily ancient and recognized across cultures, but science has only scratched the surface of this topic
Music streaming has an echo chamber problem. Curators with distinctive taste and compelling visual stories are filling the void.
Transparent movie reviews, reels (lists), discussions, logging, and free movies — everything movies, no ads.
The last night of Superman’s life came on a balmy Friday in Los Angeles, California. It should have been just like any other night for Christopher Dennis. Blue-eyed, standing six foot five, and bearing an uncanny resemblance to Christopher Reeve, for years Dennis had been a…
Chrome 145 introduces the column-height and column-wrap CSS multi-column layout properties, enabling us to wrap the additional content into a new row.