Measuring the complete environmental footprint of that beef burger sizzling on the grill is complicated. | Continue reading
Beyond downed power lines and damaged buildings, major storms such as hurricanes uproot the lives of fish and wildlife as well, according to research conducted at the University of Georgia. | Continue reading
Azeem Azhar and Binyamin Appelbaum discuss how a group of free-market economists managed to reshape our modern world. They promised growth and broad prosperity, but instead left us with fractured societies and weakened democracies. Appelbaum is the author of the new book, “The Ec … | Continue reading
Youngme, Felix, and Mihir discuss Google’s announcement that it’s buying Fitbit and what this tells us about the future of wearable computing. Later in the show, they discuss how Twitter and Facebook are handling political advertising. | Continue reading
Corporate plundering did not start and will not stop with Deadspin. | Continue reading
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. along with one in India and one in Hungary has created simulations that could explain how larger than expected black holes could form near supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies. In their paper pub … | Continue reading
Last month at Core77's Third Wave conference, panel moderator, Leigh Christie of MistyWest, asked the audience how many of us in attendance had heard of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Among the scores of professionals gathered there, only a smattering of hands we … | Continue reading
Fastly is now offering access to its serverless compute environment in private beta. Meet Compute@Edge, a uniquely secure, performant, and scalable approach to serverless computing. | Continue reading
What is the value of a Ph.D.? Is there a need in a developing world country to undertake a Ph.D. study? It's expensive (around R1 million per graduate) and in many regards a luxury for students from poor families. Even for those who have better access to money there's a very rea … | Continue reading
Purism — Private and Secure Hardware, Software, and Services | Continue reading
Seriously ill Medicare beneficiaries can face particularly onerous financial hardships stemming from health care expenses. A Commonwealth Fund–supported study, using data from a 2018 survey of people with serious illnesses, looked at how the costs of care affect beneficiaries and … | Continue reading
When we started Cruip we weren’t sure if we wanted to offer traditional email/password signup, or social logins to authenticate our users! In the end, w... | Continue reading
On Saturday evening, Dan and I were browsing at a used bookstore. It smelled like old books and burnt coffee. Fluorescent lighting cast an unnaturally bright glow on the jam-packed shelves. Not cou… | Continue reading
Adding plants and trees to the landscapes near factories and other pollution sources could reduce air pollution by an average of 27 percent, new research suggests. | Continue reading
We have an opening for a staff writer here at Nieman Lab. If you're interested, apply over here!The job's pretty easy to describe: You see all the stories on this website? The ones about journalism innovation — changes in how news gets reported, produced, distributed, discovered, … | Continue reading
Quickly search and discover organizational knowledge within Microsoft Teams. | Continue reading
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has conducted detailed observations of the dusty star-forming galaxy MMJ100026.36+021527.9, better known as MAMBO-9. The study, described in a paper published October 29 on arXiv.o … | Continue reading
The Storage team has shipped some new features for Workers KV that folks have been asking for. In this post, we'll talk about some of these new features and how to use them. | Continue reading
✨ Recognize all contributors, not just the ones who write code. ✨ All Contributors helps praise everyone contributing to open source projects. | Continue reading
Creating an Index of “Customer-Friendly Countries” based on data from Google Maps | Continue reading
Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have shown that ice melt from Antarctica drives rapid and high sea-level rise, offering a forewarning of what to expect under human-driven climate change. | Continue reading
Commission studies on legal and economic aspects of cloud computing contracts. | Continue reading
Understand the legal disclosure requirements for your social influencer campaigns. | Continue reading
Our favorite films from the past decade are available to stream on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Kanopy, and more. | Continue reading
In no particular order: * First and most importantly, the only thing I could vote for this year that was competitive -- a levy for a local career center -- passed, so I feel pretty good about that. Also on the ballot were a couple of uncontested races for township representative … | Continue reading
Mental illness doesn’t discriminate. In fact, every year one-fifth of Americans experiences a clinical mental health disorder, whether or not they are diagnosed or receive treatment. That means that even if you haven’t personally experienced a mental health crisis, you certainly … | Continue reading
Unless you're selling a purely emotional product like fashion or music, you have to give your reader enough logical ammunition to justify the purchase. | Continue reading
New Terminator: Dark Fate action figures from NECA and a detailed statue from Chronicle Collectibles bring the sequel to your shelf. | Continue reading
This is an invitation to the research area of graph drawing. It encompasses basic research such as graph theory, complexity theory, data structures, and graph algorithms as well as applied research... | Continue reading
Plants can help spruce up a home or office space, but claims about their ability to improve the air quality are vastly overstated, according to research out of Drexel University. A closer look at decades of research suggesting that potted plants can improve the air in homes and o … | Continue reading
It's International Stress Awareness Day, minions, so let's all take a nice, long, deep breath in... | Continue reading
This 62,000-square-foot, ground-up Visa office development is a departure from Visa’s typical campus project because of its location in a ... | Continue reading
It seems only a short time ago when the famous series of “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” commercials were ping-ponging consumers around and vying for their devotion. Though these battles have now morphed into Google vs. Bing or iPhone vs. Android, the battleground of technology advertising … | Continue reading
Learn how Rockset does basic ANTLR parsing in the browser to separate out SQL statements in a string. | Continue reading
Colorful Heliconius butterflies have a wide variety of wing patterns and an amazing ability to mimic the appearance of other butterfly species. They also split into many species during a short timescale, which has made them prime research subjects for evolutionary biologists for … | Continue reading
Matt Zoller Seitz on the RogerEbert.com pick for the best film of the 2010s, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. | Continue reading
What's the real age of Norwegian stave churches? | Continue reading
Brian Tallerico on the staff choice for the second best film of the 2010s, Barry Jenkins' "Moonlight." | Continue reading