Kanika Tekriwal, founder and CEO of JetSetGo proved that nothing is impossible if you believe in yourself. A few years back she was detected with cancer. | Continue reading
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The near future of the global economy looks extremely bleak. This pessimistic forecast comes from advanced statistical analysis of the S&P 500 stock market index, recently published by scientists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow. B … | Continue reading
Black Friday 2018 gave way to Cyber Monday, which gave way to Cyber Week… but the fun isn’t over just yet. Amazon has kicked off its annual “12 Days of Deals” sale and it… | Continue reading
Board games have a powerful role they can play in alleviating social isolation. They're social experiences that are non-stigmatic, and in this post I discuss how that can be a valuable and powerful combination that could very well save lives. | Continue reading
Startling human-genome editing claim leaves many open questions, from He Jiankui's next move to the future of the field | Continue reading
Write sandboxed Rake Tasks that rolls back any changes you made in the database! | Continue reading
A novel field emission transistor that uses air gaps could breathe life into Moore’s Law | Continue reading
Low-cost airlines never cease to amaze me. I was trying to change the date of my outbound flight and Ryanair’s website was not allowing me to do so. As a result, I tried to get some assitance using their ‘Live Chat’. However, the conversation was a bit… well, just have a read. | Continue reading
Atomic clocks, based on the minute oscillations of atoms, are the most precise timekeeping devices humans have created. | Continue reading
Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute, protects press freedom no matter what technology journalists use or who's in power. | Continue reading
Most of my friends who use Telegram don’t use bots. Why? | Continue reading
Olive oil baklawa is a fabulous alternative to classic baklawa, or baklava. | Continue reading
Motion sickness is an ancient phenomenon, which also occurs in modern virtual reality environments. However, it is still relatively unknown what causes this physical reaction. Suzanne Nooij and her colleagues... | Continue reading
Some of my favorite holiday decorations are ornaments kids can make. Creating art that can be hung on a Christmas tree can be a way to spend time together. | Continue reading
Dragonflies, shotgun shells and alkali lakes. Welcome to the ancient lakebed of Lake Chewaucan, where my son and I attempt to find an arrowhead. | Continue reading
In addition, Valve claims to be updating (among other things) its confidentiality guidelines so that developers can now share sales data at their own discretion. | Continue reading
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Brexit might be crashing and burning, but it's still good for a laugh. | Continue reading
With InSight safely on the surface of Mars, the mission team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is busy learning more about the spacecraft's landing site. They knew when InSight landed on Nov. 26 that the spacecraft had touched down on target, a lava pla … | Continue reading
With the direst warnings yet of impending environmental disaster still ringing in their ears, representatives from nearly 200 nations gather Sunday in Poland to firm up their plan to prevent catastrophic climate change. | Continue reading
Two Jordanian families aim to put wine from their desert land on the world viticultural map, reviving an age-old tradition that some suggest has Biblical heritage. | Continue reading
"It's still straightening," said engineer Roberto Cela, gazing at the Leaning Tower of Pisa gleaming in the autumn sunshine of northern Italy. "And many years will have to pass before it stops." | Continue reading
Clock-watching is an integral part of any Olympic Games but even the most eagle-eyed sporting anoraks might be forgiven for missing the fact that Sunday marks 600 days until the start of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. | Continue reading
An army of humans laid waste to an alien colony as South African video game maker Simon Spreckley enthusiastically controlled the action using his phone's touch screen. | Continue reading
The best upgrade I’ve made to my workflow in the past year was to start keeping an engineering notebook.Whenever I start a new project, the first thing I do is create a new section in my engineering notebook. It’s really simple. With a tiny script, I generate a dedicated folder f … | Continue reading
The Vim advent calendar | Continue reading
Jira configuration is a massive time sink, so try not to change the config “Project” is a misnomer. “Development Group” would be a better description. A Jira “project&… | Continue reading
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Books | Is the heightened tension on American campuses evidence of more psychologically vulnerable students? | Continue reading
What we know so far about PrEP, HIV and sexually transmitted infections. | Continue reading
Hagar Shilo breaks out the Christmas decorations with a tutorial to show how a little knowledge of JavaScript can lead to impressive results. Forget about the doilies and fake snow on the windows, all we need to create geometric patterns is a web browser and a sprinkling of mathe … | Continue reading