Anterior opening in orbital hoods helps redirect kinetic energy from the blasts.

The first time we mentioned the potato diet, in Part III of our series A Chemical Hunger, we shared the story of Chris Voigt, the Executive Director of the Washington State Potatoes Commission, who…

Dirt

Hey, great start! And, so many interesting ideas! Here's what's missing: your interpretation of the ideas you're capturing.

The reason you're u...

One of the most interesting pieces I’ve come across lately was Hugh Eakin’s piece on the backstory of one of Picasso’s most prominent works, Guernica. During the creative process for Guernica, Picasso created 45 different sketches before settling on the final…

The industry reached an inflection point where analog is getting a fresh look, but digital will not cede ground readily.

One of the questions that we consider in our current Gold exhibition is ‘where did the gold come from?’ In medieval Europe, natural deposits of gold were limited so most gold had to be either recycled by melting down older objects or imported by long-distance…

(Or, “regularized greedy algorithms and their applications.”)
James Gilles
“Algorithm” is one of those words that sounds fancier than it really deserves. We hear all the time about the “facebook algorithm”, the “youtube algorithm”, “high frequency trading…

A look inside the process of character designer Toshihiro Kawamoto.

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Examining my procrastination problem through a systems lens—with some ways to make progress!

Script to inject an exit(0) syscall into a running process. NB: only x86_64 for now! - killbutmakeitlooklikeanaccident.sh

Sitting exams is unpleasant at the best of times, but my daughter believes she has extra cause to complain. Two of her A-level papers are scheduled for the same time, so she must take a break betwe…

After a revolutionary mob torched Shahrinaw in 1979, the Iranian authorities erased all traces of the neighbourhood that had served as Tehran’s red-...

The year is 2008 and I had been using Mozilla Firefox for two years after my painful but inevitable breakup with Internet Explorer. But, out of school and professional necessity, I had to make the swi

Introduction There doesn’t seem to be a good tutorial out there for concatenative programming, so I figured I’d write one, inspired by t...

And it's not just the dominance of old songs—the whole creative culture is losing its ability to innovate. But why?

An introduction to applied Bayesian modeling.