The practice was probably used to improve the children’s chances of securing a university place.

LARB presents an essay by Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated from the Yiddish by David Stromberg.

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This article previously appeared in War On The Rocks There was a time when much of U.S. academia was engaged in weapon systems research for the Defense Department and intelligence community. Some o…

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An idle bit of recreational code noodling. Files on a computer are stored as bits - a sequence of 1s and 0s. But, on average, are there more ones or more zeros stored in your machine? Consider a file which only contains the letter A. It has the

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I was talking to a friend today about company values and how important they are but also how lame so many of them are. I told him that some of my favorite company values come from our former portfolio company Twilio (which in the spirit of full disclosure…

It’s taken longer than some might have thought, but we’re finally at the point where you can pick up an SLA 3D printer for a few hundred bucks. These machines, which use light to cure a…

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I recently picked up Crafting Interpreters. The project guides programmers through building their own interpreters for the Lox programming language. I’m writing this blog series as I go …