British anthropologist Richard Wrangham believes our humanity began with the murder of a tyrant. In an interview with DER SPIEGEL, he explains why homo sapiens are so murderous, while also being among the most peaceful species.

The Boy Scouts of America have faced some deserved criticism, undeserved ridicule, and have been cruelly used as props, but I think it’s safe to say that they still bear a pretty wholesome image for a majority of Americans.

Podcast for developers, testers, SREs… and their managers. I explain complex and convoluted technologies in a clear way, avoiding buzzwords and hype. Never longer than 4 minutes and 16 seconds.

I wanted to share a recent interaction I had with a Yelp sales agent, a cautionary tale. I haven’t seen it documented on this sub so I thought I’d...

The Serenity Operating System 🐞. Contribute to awesomekling/serenity development by creating an account on GitHub.

Algebraic structures for untyped Racket. Contribute to dedbox/racket-algebraic development by creating an account on GitHub.

Five years ago, Lenz (one of our co-founders) wrote:

At iwantmyname everyone earns the same. This sounds strange to many and I get asked a lot of questio……

Flooding (v.): Unleashing a mass torrent of the same stories by the same storytellers at the same time, making it almost impossible for anyone but the same select few to rise to the surface.

The text was inspired by those recipes, but its creator won't tell you what they are.

pipdig, WordPress theme and plugin provider, caught distributing malicious code to customers and DDoSing competitors…

“Time management” is not a solution — it’s actually part of the problem.

Google just started mass banning/limiting Archive Team downloads. If your thing doesn't end up on the Internet Archive, talk to Google.

It’s not just a dual-wake-up alarm clock, it’s a CD player and an aromatherapy machine, too! But wait, there’s more—it has a shortwave transmitter and a Dictaphone function for recording late-night brainstorms. And that’s not all…

Device can diagnose a range of eye diseases in real time as accurately as the best specialists

Nature - After decades of assuming that pain works the same way in all sexes, scientists are finding that different biological pathways can produce an ‘ouch!’.

Incubating a humane dynamic medium.

Simple SQL-like syntax on top of Perl text processing. - andrewbihl/bsed

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