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Saudi find may reveal how humans harnessed early dogs to survive

Following the recent desktop CPU benchmarks and server CPU benchmarks following the MDS/ZombieLoad mitigations coming to light and looking at the overall performance cost to mitigating these current CPU vulnerabilities, there was some speculation by some…

From TED-ed and tea expert Shunan Teng, a short video on the history of tea, from its invention in China to its role in globalization.

Our history of tea begins with the legend of the "divine famer" Shen Non

The century-old tradition that the Espionage Act not be used against journalistic activities has now been broken. Seventeen new charges were filed yesterday against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

The adjustment of maladaptive thoughts and behaviors associated with emotional memories is central to treating psychiatric disorders. Recent research, predominantly with laboratory animals, indicates that memories can become temporarily sensitive to modification…

The Chinese giant says it respects intellectual property rights, but competitors and some of its own former employees allege the company goes to great lengths to steal trade secrets.

The elite Peking University has become a battleground in a rarefied ideological battle over worker conditions and rights in modern China.    

The “deinstitionalization” movement was meant to correct a stream of neglected patients, a demoralized and disengaged staff, and disappearing doctors. That didn't happen.

How our mind falls short trying to short cut.

Nature Climate Change - Behavioural interventions aimed at curbing carbon emissions are inexpensive and easy to implement but can offer the false promise of a quick fix. Across six experiments, the...

It seems that Twitter has lost control of its advertising system. This blog post will show you why it is dangerous to click on any Twitter advertising. Twitter ads have always been a bit crap, but …

The plainly wrong behavior of a ubiquitous Python library echoes a British astronomical report from 1884.

A 150-tonne tidal stream turbine called AR2000 has been planned for Scotland, the largest to be built anywhere in the world.

13 Lucky Tips for using Anki and Spaced Repetition in 2019 For the past few years I've been using Anki to capture anything I want to
remember long term. If I'm…

There is an unreasonable amount of information that can be extracted from what people publicly say on the internet. Learn how to do it.