Nigel Richards has also been champion in English and – after memorising dictionary in nine weeks – French

Thin and muscular have been characterised as body shape ideals for women and men, respectively, yet each sex misperceives what the other sex desires; women exaggerate the thinness that men like and men exaggerate the muscularity that women like. Body shape…

A new video captures a remarkable 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal

Do we really need to explain why this is a problem?

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I’ve always been a big fan of Myst. It’s a series of puzzle adventure games where you explore mysterious worlds by pointing and clicking…

In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market research firm to survey the public on what they wanted in a work of art. Across 11 countries they then set about painting a piece that reflected the results. Each…

The secret life of DNS packets: investigating complex networks.

To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source.

Microsoft has discontinued its Surface Studio 2+, marking the end of the company's only direct competitor to Apple's iMac, leaving a gap in...

A blog post describing Anthropic’s new system, Clio, for analyzing how people use AI while maintaining their privacy

A transformer supply crisis bottlenecks energy projects

Muh freedumbs on muh hardware!