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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…

Perhaps a QC can help us work out why we'd want a QC

As new details about the scope of the sabotage emerge, the perpetrators—and the reason for their vandalism—remain unknown.

Apple has announced that in macOS 10.15 Catalina the default shell will be zsh. In this series, I will document my experiences moving bash settings, configurations, and scripts over to zsh. Part 1:…

npj Science of Food - Ultrafast cold-brewing of coffee by picosecond-pulsed laser extraction

It happened. Nearly 5 years of paper writing, being snuck Committee Meeting notes on the DL until I could access them myself and absolve my co-conspirators o...

Around the end of 2020, I looked at GNOME's commit history as a proxy for the project's overall health. A year and a half went by since then, and it's time for an update.