astrobiological hypothesis that life forms of early Earth were retinal-based rather than chlorophyll-based, making Earth appear purple rather than green

Corner Time is a macOS app that keeps time always visible, even in fullscreen mode or whenever the menu bar is hidden.

Yahoo let two future trillion-dollar companies get away. One of them twice.

As of 2023, the US has around 142.3 million housing units: roughly one home for every 2.4 people in the country.

As consumers have grown less worried about whether their diamonds are mined or made, many have turned to cost-friendly lab grown diamonds. And that’s having a big impact on the diamond mining industry — including for Canada.

Nature Communications - The Arctic winters are changing fast. In February 2025, Svalbard endured rain, thawing tundra, and pooling meltwater. The Comment by Bradley and coauthors describes how...

Inverted Indexes: why do you need one, and how to implement in Scala quickly and easily

One of the figures is interpreted to be Maui, the demigod.

Can microfactories solve prefab's economic problem by inverting the factory model?

Content warning: risk to children Julia and I know drowning is the biggest risk to US kids 1-4, and we try to take this seriously. But yesterday our 4yo came very close to drowning in a fountain. (She's fine now.) This week we were on vacation with my…

The DPP bet the farm on trying to flip the legislature their way by recalling an unprecedented number of KMT legislators. Mistakes were made.

An explanation of some major issues with asyncio.

Instapaper Rakuten Kobo IntegrationWe’re excited to announce a new integration that will bring Instapaper to all Rakuten Kobo eReaders. The integration will provide Kobo readers with a seamless way to...

FAA is getting one enormously consequential thing right