Like most organisations the BBC has its own technical ecosystem; the BBC's is pretty much restricted to Perl and static files. This means that the vast majority of the BBC's...

Red meat has been linked to all sorts of adverse health outcomes. But a new study shows that the associations are weak or nonexistent.

Our twenty-first-century culture of performed remorse has become a sorry spectacle.

In one of the most bizarre spectacles in agriculture history, nicotine-addicted Judas goats once led sheep to slaughter down livestock’s version of the green mile. The aptly named Judas goats, rewarded with a single cigarette for every herd of sheep deceitfully…

The man who had to clean up the mess at Enron says the situation at FTX is even worse, describing what he calls a “complete failure” of corporate control.

Despite price pressures, BOJ will not join global trend of rate hikes

A flexible graph store, written in Clojure. Contribute to quoll/asami development by creating an account on GitHub.

Larry Sanger, one of the original founders of Wikipedia, has openly stated that Wikipedia is clearly biased1. Although the free online encyclopedia i...

Two physicists have calculated that the universe has a higher entropy — and is therefore more likely — than alternative possible universes. The calculation is “an answer to a question that is yet to be fully understood.”

Mohammed bin Salman now has immunity against a lawsuit due to his new role as prime minister.

After successful clinical trials of psilocybin for treating depression, there are now calls for its wider use

Musk jokes through crisis, says record numbers "logging in to see if Twitter is dead."

Say hello to ronnagrams and quettameters: International scientists gathered in France voted on Friday for new metric prefixes to express the world's largest and smallest measurements, prompted by an ever-growing ...

There are long-standing concerns that peer review, which is foundational to scientific
institutions like journals and funding agencies, favors cons...

Nature - How, and whether, to keep atomic time in sync with Earth’s rotation is still up for debate.

How many people took their new boss’s offer and quit their jobs at Twitter last night? We don’t have a number to put on that, but Alex Heath has this email that was just sent from Elon Musk to Twitter’s software engineers. The strangest part of all this…

I saw an opportunity to fix self-hosted runners for GitHub Actions. Actuated is now in pilot and aims to solve most if not all of the friction.