Do intelligent people think faster? Researchers at the BIH and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, together with a colleague from Barcelona, made the surprising finding that participants with higher intelligence scores were only quicker when tackling simple…

In May 2021, Humberto Maturana, a Chilean Biologist, died aged 92. In these videos he explains the differences between information transfer within biological and non-biological systems.

Hi all, TL;DR - Kicking off an effort to secure long-term funding for our S3 costs and exploring alternatives. This comes after multiple years where Logicblox has been graciously sponsoring the S3 costs for Nix! An enormous thank you to them. The LogicBlox…

Controversy over demand for correction

A group of services, often connected to pricey college counselors, has arisen to help high schoolers carry out and publish research as a credential for their college applications. The research papers — and the publications — can be dubious.

Misguided modeling created a "physician surplus" narrative, the harmful consequences of which we are still dealing with today.

The Congressional TikTok hearing is a shitshow of conflicting interests and ignorant assertions about how fundamental parts of the internet have worked for decades.

The study offers the first physiological evidence from inside the human brain supporting the dominant  theory on how memory is consolidated during sleep, and it found brain stimulation during a critical time appeared to improve memory consolidation.

Turing trains, computational, traintrack layouts

Delving into 1950s Soviet Life: Candid Photographs Reveal State Control, Scarcity, and Resilience. Explore an era through captivating visuals, shedding light on the challenges and indomitable human spirit.

jq for binary formats - tool, language and decoders for working with binary and text formats - wader/fq

Several other schools are suing social media companies as well.

Red Hat's Matthias Clasen has let
it be known that LibreOffice will be dropped from a future Red Hat
Enterprise Linux release, and the future of its support in Fedora is
unclear as well.