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This long-read is about the ethics of neuromarketing illustrated by ethical and unethical cases to learn how it can improve your reputation.

Desert snakes slithering across the sand at night can encounter obstacles such as plants or twigs that alter the direction of their travel. While studying that motion to learn how limbless animals control ...

Quantum machines will deliver the next great leap forward in computing, but researchers building them can’t easily get some of the exotic components they need.

Musical Chord Progression Arpeggiator: A quick way to sketch out musical chord progressions. Copyright (c) 2019 by Jake Albaugh Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a ...

My piece on the desirable properties of tests https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/test-desiderata-94150638a4b3 lists 12 properties. Kelly Sutton and I will go through them one-by-one. This first video is about the property that tests should be sensitive to…

Mainstream economists nowadays might not be particularly good at predicting financial crashes, facilitating general prosperity, or coming up with models for preventing climate change, but when it comes to establishing themselves in positions of intellectual…

Rotating mechanisms can be a headache when it becomes necessary to deliver power through them. [Igor Brkic] faced just such a challenge when creating his double-pendulum build, and solved it with a…

ZMT provides a centralized platform and draws records of endangered manuscripts from an international network of partners contributing microfilms, photographs, and high-quality digital reproductions. Its goal is to provide free online access to 15,000 books…

Matplotlib is a valuable but misunderstood foundation of the python data science stack.

The Commodore 64 remains the best selling home computer of all time, and is unlikely to be toppled anytime soon. It continues to inspire a diehard community of makers and hackers to this day. [Cem …

Advertisement needs to end. It is insane to think that a piece of software, so fundamental to running computers, an operating system is selling user behavior to advertisers.

The Norwegian master Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) is and will remain the most important modern . . . .

The ever-resourceful [Turbo Conquering Mega Eagle] has an excellent excuse for starting on projects, he’s building them for his kids and making videos. We’re not so sure his little moto…

In early 1999, a piece of malware with one of the oddest origins hit the scene. This article explores the investigative methodology used by the FBI, and highlights some of their findings.

Since Samya Stumo’s death in a 737 MAX crash, her parents and her great-uncle, Ralph Nader, have devoted themselves to proving that the company put profit over safety.