The birthplace of the modern apple - BBC Travel

When a Russian scientist identified the Malus sieversii as the progenitor of the domestic apple, harvests in Kazakhstan’s forests were bountiful; now this wild fruit is threatened.

The UX of video game tutorials. What decisions a designer will run into… |

What decisions a designer will run into while designing learning experiences.

How to Schedule Python Scripts With Cron — The Only Guide You’ll Ever Need

Automate your Python script execution — works on Linux and macOS.

Learn To Play | American Go Association

The national organization for the promotion of the ancient game of Go (aka Weiqi, Baduk) in the US.

Virtual environments for absolute beginners — what is it and how to create one (+ examples)

A deep dive into Python virtual environments, pip and avoiding entangled dependencies

Science Says

3-min marketing recommendations from the latest scientific research. Join 30,000+ marketers, for $0.

Why People Fall For Conspiracy Theories

You might not believe in QAnon, but you could still fall down the rabbit hole.

Math Books you should read in 2021

Learn how mathematics influence every aspect of our life.

The Elemental Strangeness of Foxes

Zito Madu in pursuit of London’s wildlife.

A boy, his brain, and a decades-long medical controversy

No one could deny that Timothy was sick. But when doctors can’t agree on the cause of an illness, what happens to the patients trapped in limbo?

Researchers Uncover 'Process Ghosting' — A New Malware Evasion Technique

A new malware evasion technique has been discovered by researchers - 'Process Ghosting'

Bill Ackman Sent a Text to the CEO of Mastercard. What Happened Next Is a Parable for ESG.

A yearlong campaign to hold major companies accountable for online sexual abuse met with little success — until a New York Times article got a hedge fund manager involved.

When Graphs Are a Matter of Life and Death

Pie charts and scatter plots seem like ordinary tools, but they revolutionized the way we solve problems.

The 6 Daily Habits That Help Me Maintain a Visible Six-Pack Year Round

My maintenance habits keep me fit WITHOUT dieting, cardio, or ab exercises

Danish Road Safety Council / Helmet has always been a good idea

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Yoga to Make You Strong

Originally published on May 4, 2018

After saving Tuca & Bertie, Adult Swim has posted the first episode of seas

Now’s your chance to see the show.

The Quick Guide To Using Environment Variables in Python

Set your application secrets, load, and retrieve them easily in your Data Science apps.

Web Development with Python: Dash (complete tutorial)

Draw with Plotly, Embed Bootstrap CSS, Upload & Download files, Change Inputs after selection, Navbars, Spinners, and more…

Design Patterns Cheat Sheet

No matter which programming language you are proficient in, it is always important that you know a...

Mastering Web Applications with Streamlit

Using Streamlit to Build an ML-based Web Application

Decades After Mysteriously Drowning, Pecos Jane Has a Name – Texas Monthly

The young woman who mysteriously drowned in the Ropers Motel pool in 1966 might have remained anonymous forever, if not for cutting-edge genetics, old-fashioned genealogy—and the kindness of a small West Texas town.

Can Apple change ads? — Benedict Evans

20 years ago Apple seized music, and turned it into a lever for its broader business. It failed to do the same to TV, and lost control of music, but won massively in games, where it now makes more money than the entire global digital music industry. Now, perhaps, it’s looking at…

James McMurtry Announces First Album in Six Years - No Depression

New West Records announced a new album from James McMurtry today, his first full-length studio recording since 2015’s Complicated Game. The Horses and the Hounds will be released Aug. 20 and was recorded at Jackson Browne’s Groove Masters studio in […]

Ask HN: What is the SQLite of nosql databases?

The Formidable Charm of Omar Sy

How the star of “Lupin” pulled off his greatest confidence trick.

Installing Packages with Package Control in Sublime Text

Package Control - the Sublime Text package manager

Building Backend | Node, Postgres, GraphQL

Hi there 👋 Every application, you'll agree, needs a back-end. And there are many languages and tools...

Seaborn can do the job, then why Matplotlib?

Should you bypass Matplotlib?

We're leaking, and everything's fine: How and why companies deliberately leak secrets

Although the protection of secrets is often vital to the survival of organizations, at other times organizations can benefit by deliberately leaking secrets to outsiders. We explore how and why this is the case. We identify two dimensions of leaks:

The Art Of Deliberately Leaking Corporate Secrets

Although there may be risks for companies in leaking secrets, the researchers make a strong case for doing so when appropriate. It appears that some of the most prolific and careful leakers are also among the most profitable companies in the world.

How To Leverage a Beta Product Leak | Centercode

You’re a few weeks into managing a beta test for a new product your company plans to release soon. You get an email from someone on your beta team that there has been a leak online. One of your testers took a picture of your company’s new gadget fresh out of the box and posted…

Surprising shared word etymologies - Daniel de Haas

Etymological Wordnet

Etymological Wordnet/lexicon/dictionary resource

Online Etymology Dictionary | Origin, history and meaning of English words

The online etymology dictionary (etymonline) is the internet's go-to source for quick and reliable accounts of the origin and history of English words, phrases, and idioms. It is professional enough to satisfy academic standards, but accessible enough to be used by anyone.

AMD 3D Stacks SRAM Bumplessly

AMD recently unveiled 3D V-Cache, their first 3D-stacked technology-based product. Leapfrogging contemporary 3D bonding technologies, AMD jumped directly into advanced packaging with direct bonding and an order of magnitude higher wire density.

The Number That Becomes More Amazing the More You Study It

It’s even more astonishing than Dan Brown and Pepsi thought.

What Makes Quantum Computing So Hard to Explain?

To understand what quantum computers can do — and what they can’t — avoid falling for overly simple explanations.

Information Theory: A Gentle Introduction

This is the first in a series of articles about Information Theory and its relationship to data driven enterprises and strategy. While…

The Mystery at the Heart of Physics That Only Math Can Solve

The accelerating effort to understand the mathematics of quantum field theory will have profound consequences for both math and physics.

The Elephant Ethogram

Introduces the elephant ethogram: A Library of African Elephant Behavior

The First 'Google Translate' For Elephants Debuts

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: Elephants possess an incredibly rich repertoire of communication techniques, including hundreds of calls and gestures that convey specific meanings and can change depending on the context. Different elephant…

How to Save an Ancient Language Before It Disappears Forever

For decades, Taiwan’s minority Hakka people were banned from teaching their native language. Now an unlikely coalition of aging academics and millennial radio DJs are doing all they can to keep it alive.

The Mother of All ‘Abandoned’ Airports (2015)

West Berlin's lifeline during the Soviet Blockade, Tempelhof Airport has since become the city’s biggest park. Berliners will fight to keep it that way.

7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer – The Rab

Summary Helmer sets out to create a simple, but not simplistic, strategy compass. His 7 powers include: scale economics, switching costs, cornered resource, counter positioning, branding, network effects, and process. Key Takeaways Strategy: the study of the fundamental…

GitHub - hashicorp/terraform: Terraform enables you to safely and predictab

Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared ...

Details & Summary tags: HTML's best kept secret

and tags are among of the most useful tags that HTML gives us. I'm...

Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Book List 2021 - By Antonia Violante & Heather Graci Behavioral Scientist

Summer isn’t the same without a good reading list. Here are our behavioral science picks for summer 2021.