The long read: In 2014, an American dad claimed a tiny parcel of African land to make his daughter a princess. But Jack Shenker had got there first – and learned that states and borders are volatile and delicate things

I was two days ago at Hereticon, and wondering which views actually should be considered heretical.  It seems there are some distinct categories, for instance here are a few categories of the “partially heretical”: 1. Used to be heretical, or on the verge…

HTML Is A Programming Language. Contribute to marianoguerra/hiapl development by creating an account on GitHub.

OpenRailwayMap - An OpenStreetMap-based project for creating a map of the world's railway infrastructure.

Nature - Geochemical analyses correlating the stratum that overlies the sediments containing the Omo fossils with material from a volcanic eruption suggest that these fossils (the oldest known...

Today I counted no fewer than 14 individuals doing this (based on unique Ethereum and Bitcoin addresses, address reuse, unique videos, registrar info, and unique domains), stealing roughly $200k in the 12 hours that I surveyed the activity. https://www.b…

Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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urban legend regarding a reputed curse placed on the Japanese Kansai-based Hanshin Tigers baseball team

Facebook bought TBH last October and eventually shut it down, but an internal note shows that the company learned a way to target high schoolers through the viral polling app.

Electronics and microcontroller projects

25 years after Heaven’s Gate ended with the deaths of 39 devotees their website is still online. Though it hasn’t been updated since the mass suicide, someone out there is still keeping the lights on. Who is responsible? Also covered is a look into the role…

My experience with Feedback Hub has taken its weirdest turn yet—somebody at Microsoft edited a critical comment that I made earlier this week to simply read ...