Darwin thought that family trees could explain evolution. The hoatzin suggests otherwise.

For the first time in ~40 years (? - see below) New Mexico's Rio Grande has "broken" - is no longer flowing - in what we call "the Albuquerque reach". The river dries not with a bang, but with a muddy whimper and the dawn serenade of awakening birds. Battered…

The team at Terraform Industries is now 11 people working towards a near term future where atmospheric CO2, much of it centuries of unpriced industrial waste, becomes the preferred default source o…

The Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) has detected two containers of the same number in its yards.

Some days ago Brandon Rohrer retweeted his own twitter thread from 2020 in which he makes the argument that convolutions are
actually pretty bad at extracting features. In it he proposes a method to

Seven states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — tapped into the river and unlocked the American West. But their agreement, the 1922 Colorado River Compact…

"We wish Blake well," Google said in a statement.

One tetromino at a time

Nature - As the physicist’s collected papers reach volume 15, Andrew Robinson sifts through the quotes attributed to him.

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The world’s first round-the-world solo yacht race was a thrilling and, for some, deadly contest. Its contestants' efforts can teach us about the art of maintenance.

A new study suggests the soundscape could have affected the mental health of 19th-century settlers.

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The Expat Insider 2022 survey by InterNations reveals the best and worst destinations for living and working abroad.

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On paper, it looked like a fantastic deal. In 2017, the Chinese government was offering to spend $100 million to build an ornate Chinese garden at the National Arboretum in Washington DC. Complete with temples, pavilions and a 70-foot white pagoda, the project…

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for an attack on an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam.

As the attack developed, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else:

A massacre.

He…