Octopuses have often been thought to prowl the seafloor solo using camouflage. But a new study suggests that some have surprisingly rich social lives.

A community vote in the CSS-Next repository on GitHub decided on a new official logo for CSS. The design follows the design language of the logos of other web technologies like JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly. A demonstration of the new rebeccapurple…

For the first time, the annual report delved into race and ethnic data of those who underwent assisted dying.

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This article is about the neural conundrum behind the slowness of human behavior. The information throughput of a human being is about 10 bits/s. In comparison, our sensory systems gather data at...

I had the pleasure of being invited to give Harvey Mudd's commencement speech this year.
Reposted here with permission from the University

Timestamps:
0:00 - End of Harriet Nembhard's introduction
0:45 - The cliché
2:28 - The shifting goal
5:57 - Action…

An article about music and geometry, in particular about musical intervals and scales and their geometric equivalent ...

A staple of old Buster Keaton/Laurel and Hardy films is the car that falls completely apart, either when closing one of the doors or even when driving, like so:

How exactly did they pull these s...

A wolf paces in captivity, teaching us all the wrong lessons about power

"A calculator app? Anyone could make that." (this was originally a https://x.com/ChadNauseam/status/1890889465322786878, and has since been turned into an asterisk article) "A calculator app? Anyone …

The Cosmic Distance Ladder, how we learned distances in the heavens.
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Artwork by Kurt Bruns
Thanks to Paul Dancstep for several animations, such as the powers of 10 zoom…

“Whenever I’m about to do something, I think ‘Would an idiot do that?’ and if they would, I do not do that thing.” – Dwight Schrute

And what is the best way to spot an idiot? Look for the person who is cruel.

Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digital age, it might actually be possible to create a comprehensive collection of all human writing that meets certain criteria. That’s what shadow libraries…

Dori | Art Director, Designer, Artist

From the pope in a puffer to the Princess of Wales and family, baby Hitler to Mussolini on horseback, people have always manipulated photographs, whether for political power, image control – or just for fun …