The archaeological find in the Abydos burial ground is thought to date back about 5,000 years.

Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) developed a method of computing determinants which has some practical advantages.

Lockheed Martin F-117 Nighthawk was retired in 2008. Why was it discontinued, despite its numerous technological advantages?


What is Lockheed Martin F-117 Nighthawk?
The F-117 was developed in the 1970s and entered service in 1983. Its diamond shape…

Do not pass the buck to a computer.

The number of people who majored in computer science in the US isn't much higher in 2015 than in 2005. Why do so few students major in computer science?

The trend ran rampant in Indonesia until the government stepped in.

I was just over a month into my first job in the tech industry - a lowly HTML jockey and frontline support drone at a local web agency.


Everything that could have gone wrong this particular morning, had. I'd woken up late, made a mess of my breakfast, there…

In eight new papers, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational waves (NANOGrav) presents evidence for a gravitational wave background. In this bite, we provide an overview of their results and their implications

The single most undervalued fact of linear algebra: matrices are graphs, and graphs are matrices

I don't have time to keep up with all the daft Open Source projects I release. I wish my skill and my energy was as wide as my ambition. Several years ago, I came across Felix Geisendörfer's Pull Request Hack. The premise is simple - if people are making…

I'm fairly certain that I was not the only person in the world who thought to himself, "Did they just yoink the entire Internet and bundle it together into a

A 100 days over 100F and historic drought don't worry Microsoft or Google