On the eve of his 101st birthday, the father of the Gaia theory discusses Covid-19, extreme weather… and freezing hamsters

Over the past several years systematic underpricing in traditional IPOs has gone from very bad to really, really bad. Not uncommon to see multiple IPOs a week trade up over 100% on first day. It is systematic and all ties to the process that is be...

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The discovery of a handaxe carved from a hippopotamus femur sheds light on the advanced techniques our early human ancestors possessed 1.4 million years ago.

Can we test speculations about how quantum physics affects black holes and the Big Bang?

My first Haskell program and how easily I optimized it from 33m to 17s.

In this post, I summarize some accomplished engineer’s views on error handling. There is a distinction between errors that are caused by programmer neglecting bugs and those that represent true error conditions. The granularity of error checking is also up…

Berlin-based artist Niklas Roy isn’t just concerned about his privacy and protection online. To stop passersby from peeping into his workshop, he strung up a white, lace curtain stretching only partially across his window. Titled “My Little Piece of Privacy…

By HANS DUVEFELT, MD (7) The other day I saw a new patient who used to be on Lamictal, a mood stabilizer. The young man explained that he had gone through a difficult time in his life a few years a…

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Gamers with the Army, Navy, and Air Force are spending hours on Twitch with children as young as 13.

Companies can retain their best innovators by providing an environment where internal innovators can be successful.

Flight attendants are key part to maintaining in-flight safety, and it's not clear how a pilot could assume their new roles with a few days' notice.

Corrected Nov. 29 at 2 pm ET. See below. Some of the nation’s least affordable markets are also ground zero for the fight against building affordable housing – which opponents say, among other things, depreciates nearby home values. Resistance to affordable…

I’ve been playing around with OpenAI’s new GPT-3 language model. When I got beta access, the first thing I wondered was, how human is GPT-3? How close is it ...

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