In Bari’s view, Freddie deBoer is one of the best writers in the country. It’s not because she always agrees with him. Hardly. Freddie is a self-described Marxist. What she appreciates about him is that he is unflinching about criticizing “his side.” Freddie…

Let’s be honest. When you read this post’s title, you thought it was obvious. Yet, most people don’t follow this simple piece of advice. You know that too, a...

We provide novel evidence that poor individuals born in countries with high consumption of meat are more likely to show soccer prowess. Our findings are robust to controlling for population, per capit

Nature - US scientists evaluate their options after failing to replicate record-setting experiment from 2021.

When I started using Godot Engine, what surprised me the most is the built-in Language Server Protocol support. Thank to it, I can easily develop GDScript with all my customized vim configs.
Setup Install vim-godot.
Plug 'habamax/vim-godot' Install neovim…

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

A seven-hour rail trip from Munich to Berlin – four and a half on the timetable plus two and a half of sitting at and just outside Nuremberg – has forced me to think a lot more about th…

Thirty years ago, a bold plan was hatched to persuade people that climate change was not a problem.

We’re protecting some of Riot’s upcoming games with new anti-cheat systems.

In the late summer of 1993, I had dinner with Jack Healey, the Executive Director of Amnesty International at the time and a great friend of mine. I told

GNU's framework for secure p2p networking

Some learnings about library writing, N years on. X. People will just copy-paste your example code. This is obvious but is something ...

Ted Gioia is a leading music historian and author of 11 books including “The History of Jazz” and “Music: A Subversive History”. He combines his cultural expertise with an extensive business background as a strategy consultant and Stanford MBA.

He also writes…

TLDR Amazon turns a blind eye towards book piracy. A cynical take is that they do it to line the pocketbooks. Gaming the system Why would the world's largest book marketplace encourage piracy? A shady side of Amazon rears its head and is the bane of book…

Decentralized certificate authority and naming

Some 200 places around the world have now achieved Dark Sky status. Frankie Adkins explores the benefits nights with out light pollution can bring.

For example, that universal basic income (UBI) could ameliorate the loss of jobs due to automation, a straw man would be, “So you want people to sit at home all day and collect free money?” Recently, the term has become a cudgel in the culture wars.

‘After the Revolution’ is the latest work of speculative fiction drawing on our real-life deadly climate, big money, sinister villains, and true believers.