Making a megalodon: The evolving science behind estimating the size of the largest ever killer shark

The giant prehistoric Carcharocles megalodon (or Otodus megalodon for some researchers) was the largest predatory shark to ever swim in Earth's seas. Scientific evidence points to megalodon having lived between 16 million and 2.6 million years ago, going extinct at the end of the … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Bias Lighting

I've talked about computer workstation ergonomics before, but one topic I didn't address is lighting. We computer geeks like it dark. Really dark. Ideally, we'd be in a cave. A cave … with an internet connection. The one thing that we can't abide is direct overhead lighting. E … | Continue reading


@blog.codinghorror.com | 3 years ago

Big Tech is facing regulatory threats from Australia to Arizona

The era of Silicon Valley exceptionalism is over. | Continue reading


@arstechnica.com | 3 years ago

New analysis of 2D perovskites could shape the future of solar cells and LEDs

An innovative analysis of two-dimensional (2D) materials from engineers at the University of Surrey could boost the development of next-generation solar cells and LEDs. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

What should we do about the algorithmic amplification of disinformation?

The results of the 2020 presidential election. The alleged dangers of the COVID vaccine. Disinformation continues to have a significant effect on almost every aspect of our lives, and some of the biggest sources of disinformation are the social platforms that we spend a large par … | Continue reading


@cjr.org | 3 years ago

Grow shows the beauty of light and sustainability in of agriculture

GROW by Daan Roosegaarde highlights the beauty of agriculture. | Continue reading


@studioroosegaarde.net | 3 years ago

Invasion and response (Covid-19 infographic on the infection)

Action, reaction, overreaction: Once the virus gets in, the immune system can overreact—with deadly consequences. | Continue reading


@nationalgeographic.com | 3 years ago

Use a PineCone board to check for packets transmitted by a long range sensor

How we receive LoRa packets transmitted by PineCone BL602 RISC-V Board ... With RAKwireless WisBlock in Arduino | Continue reading


@lupyuen.github.io | 3 years ago

After COVID-19, work will never be 'normal' again

A year ago, just after Bay Area governments imposed a shelter-in-place order to check the spread of a mysterious new coronavirus, Cristina Banks worried about how she would work from home. She would miss her office at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She would miss interact … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Vaccine Nationalists Are Not Immune

Rich countries' failure to lead a coordinated global response to the pandemic has been regarded as a moral failure. But now that the continued spread of the virus elsewhere is producing new variants, it has turned out to be a practical failure, too. | Continue reading


@project-syndicate.org | 3 years ago

The solar wind, explained

The solar wind is a flow of particles that comes off the sun at about one million miles per hour and travels throughout the entire solar system. First proposed in the 1950s by University of Chicago physicist Eugene Parker, the solar wind is visible in the halo around the sun duri … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

What Can We Learn from the Demise of RxJava?

RxJava, once the hottest framework in Android development, is dying. It's worth taking a moment to understand what happened. | Continue reading


@techyourchance.com | 3 years ago

Researchers probe cell nucleus response with needle-tip technique

Kaitlin McCreery is the coauthor of a new paper published in Small that deals with diagnosing diseases such as osteoarthritis in soft tissue. McCreery is currently a Ph.D. student in the Neu Lab where she studies the biophysical relationship between cells and tissues to gain insi … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Fungi use ingenious strategies to forage underground

When you think of fungi, you'll probably picture a huddle of chubby brown mushrooms, or the large, red-capped toadstools you stumble across in the woods. In doing so, you're reducing fungi to their reproductive organs—tasty or striking as they may often be. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

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@styleweekly.com | 3 years ago

Amazon's Bestselling Kitchen Cart Has All Sorts of Smart Storage

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@thekitchn.com | 3 years ago

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@styleweekly.com | 3 years ago

Why tackling malnutrition is key to women's empowerment

Disruptions to food and health systems because of COVID-19 are causing rates of malnutrition to rise substantially. Experts predict that severe hunger around the worldwill more than double over the course of the pandemicand in many parts of the world malnutrition will kill more p … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Fukushima: Why we need to look back thousands of years to get better at predicting earthquakes

Ten years ago, on March 11 2011, a devastating earthquake occurred along part of a fault that scientists believe had not ruptured for more than a thousand years. The quake triggered a tsunami that caused more than 15,000 deaths in Japan, as well as a serious nuclear accident at a … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

The COVID-19 Postscript

A surprising number of COVID-recovered patients deal with an array of troublesome symptoms, well after the disease is gone | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 3 years ago

It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading


@scripting.com | 3 years ago

Why the mainframe is alive and thriving

Mainframes are still going strong after 70 years. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Why Fugazi Never Charged More Than Five Bucks

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@marcthiele.com | 3 years ago

Sigstore: Easy Code Signing and Verification for Supply Chain Integrity

Posted by Kim Lewandowski & Dan Lorenc, Google Open Source Security Team One of the fundamental security issues with open source is that it’... | Continue reading


@security.googleblog.com | 3 years ago

If you've gone into your local independent grocery store recently, chances are you'll still find a shortage of items like toilet paper, paper towels and cleaning supplies. | Continue reading


@amp.cnn.com | 3 years ago

Evidence for the Jan 6 Coup

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@jan6evidence.com | 3 years ago

Sociologist looks at worker inequities as restaurants reopen from pandemic

The pandemic has been devastating to restaurants, as well as the rest of the hospitality industry. But as damaging as it's been, the ensuing shutdown has shown that restaurants have worked creatively to keep serving food to an eager audience and now have the opportunity to change … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

What does 'net zero emissions' mean?

An ambitious target to reduce emissions, but can it slow global warming? | Continue reading


@newscientist.com | 3 years ago

The Famed Painting The Scream Holds a Hidden Message

Jan Donges in Scientific American: “Kan kun være malet af en gal Mand!” (“Can only have been painted by a madman!”) appears on Norwegian artist Edvard Munch’s most famous painting The Scream. Infrared images at Norway’s National Museum in Oslo recently confirmed that Munch himsel … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 3 years ago

How to get your first users and make your first sales

5 way to get organic users for your brand new product. Get early traction and your first feeback for your startup | Continue reading


@blog.spreadtheworld.net | 3 years ago

Zoom and Teams rival StarLeaf is considering IPO

UK video call firm Starleaf is plotting an IPO in London after demand for its services surged during the pandemic, City A.M. can reveal. | Continue reading


@cityam.com | 3 years ago

DOGMA AND TOWN: Eight out of eight said Taylor was armed!

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@dailyhowler.blogspot.com | 3 years ago

Cuomo Accuser Claims Governor Groped Her At Executive Mansion

One of the women accusing Gov. Andrew Cuomo of workplace sexual harassment has come forward with additional details of an... | Continue reading


@talkingpointsmemo.com | 3 years ago

Netflix to Start Testing Warnings for People Borrowing Login Info

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@gammawire.com | 3 years ago

What Is Happening to the Republicans?

Jelani Cobb in The New Yorker: One of the oldest imperatives of American electoral politics is to define your opponents before they can define themselves. So it was not surprising when, in the summer of 1963, Nelson Rockefeller, a centrist Republican governor from New York, launc … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 3 years ago

The Big Idea: Gabriela Houston

It’s not how you look on the outside, but what’s on the inside that makes you a monster. This is especially true in Gabriela Houston’s newest novel, The Second Bell. Explore Houst… | Continue reading


@whatever.scalzi.com | 3 years ago

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?

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@dl.acm.org | 3 years ago

The Phone of the Wind

Please insert 25¢ to continue grieving. | Continue reading


@onefoottsunami.com | 3 years ago

The UK is testing a controversial web snooping tool

The Investigatory Powers Act, or Snooper’s Charter, was introduced in 2016. Now one of its most contentious surveillance tools is being secretly trialled by internet firms | Continue reading


@wired.co.uk | 3 years ago

“Let it have been drawn”: the role of diagrams in geometry

The use of diagrams in geometry raise questions about the place of the physical, the sensory, the human in mathematical reasoning. Multiple sources of evidence speak to how these dilemmas were tackled in antiquity: the linguistics of diagram construction, the state of drawings in … | Continue reading


@intellectualmathematics.com | 3 years ago

What we can learn from the world's biggest waves?

Alaska is renowned for its postcard pretty mountains, vast spaces and massive earthquakes. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

Mirantis Unveils First Homegrown Version of Docker Enterprise (2020)

Although Mirantis had originally planned to sunset the orchestration engine Swarm, long time Docker users have convinced the cloud company to continue development and offer it as a choice alongside Kubernetes. | Continue reading


@datacenterknowledge.com | 3 years ago

Building a Healthy On-Call Culture

In this post, we share some of the best practices we apply when SoundCloud engineers take on out-of-hours support duties. | Continue reading


@developers.soundcloud.com | 3 years ago

The fastest computer for data anaytics

Five years ago, STOIC was going through a very intense period of QA and bug fixing. Consequently, there was very little that I could really contribute. | Continue reading


@linkedin.com | 3 years ago

New CRISPR screening technique leads to discovery of pathway that may be linked to cancer initiation

A new genome-wide CRISPR screening technique conducted by researchers at Vanderbilt University is offering new insights about how tumors in 80 to 90% of all cancers grow. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 3 years ago

The Digital BOR

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@koratkar.com | 3 years ago

Syncthing Untrusted Device Encryption

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@docs.syncthing.net | 3 years ago

The Sweden Solar System

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@swedensolarsystem.se | 3 years ago