By WitherOrNot

How does an unreactive, barely soluble metal end up forming giant chunks?

At several points throughout history, someone has sat down to watch a ballet; a long and complex performance with multiple dancers and changes of music and style, and at the end of it, said: “someh…

The beginnings of FM radio broadcasting in the USA

wingolog: article: conservative gc can be faster than precise gc

Right to Repair–for Your Body. The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective is an anarchist collective dedicated to enabling access to medicines and medical technologies to those who need them but don’t have them. DIY Pharmaceuticals DIY Dental Care Abortion Defense…

We say that an imperative data structure is snapshottable or supports snapshots if we can efficiently capture its current state, and restore a previously captured
state to become the current state again. This is useful, for example, to implement
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Another Google antitrust trial starts on Monday. If Google loses, it'll be three strikes. At some point, they will give up and realize that the writing is on the wall for their current business model.

Before modern air travel and first-class suites, the grandest thing in luxury air travel was the German Hindenburg airship.

I want to provide a smooth experience to my site visitors, so I work on accessibility and ensure it works without JavaScript enabled. I care about page load time because some pages contain large illustrations, so I minify my HTML.
But one thing makes turning…

If not the most famous artwork in the world, it is certainly one of the most famous.

Why is it so hard to make a moderately secure login?

Research into canine cognition suggests some pets store object names in long-term memory

I got an email the other day from mathematician Bogdan Grechuk, whose book Polynomial Diophantine Equations: A Systematic Approach ( was recently released. This is to my mind a rather remarkable bo…

KDE e.V

Genius is fragile. Success, even more so. What does it mean then for an artist to fail?