In the beginning, there was a hat factory. Factory is probably too grand a word for it, but the space that would eventually become the first home of L0pht Heavy Industries began as the location of a hat-making business. The … Read more
by Rudolf Kingslake Source: Kingslake, Rudolf, 1974, “The Rochester Camera and Lens Companies“, Rochester NY, Photographic Historical Society. This is a most complicated story spanning almost 100 years, and I find that it is often difficult to discover what … Read more
A survey of trepanation, or trephination, the oldest surgical procedure known to humanity. A detail of a 17th-century naval surgeon’s trephination kit. The trephines are very similar to both ancient Roman and modern ones. By: Charles G. Gross In 1865, … Read more
THERE’S A RICH IRONY that Malcolm Gladwell’s new book is spun off from episodes of his Revisionist History podcast. Ostensibly a meditation on the morality of bombing civilians during World War II, The Bomber Mafia is anything but revisionist. It’s … Read more
This is part of our article series published as “History of OpenZFS”. Subscribe to our article series to find out more about the secrets of OpenZFS From its birth at Sun, ZFS grew exponentially in popularity. Many were impressed by … Read more
Mark Ernestus, founder of record shop Hard Wax, was also instrumental in bringing the Detroit sound to the German capital. The shop was and still is one of the most respected outlets for techno in Europe, if not the world. … Read more
The error in your browser’s console# No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource. Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://example.com/ Access to fetch at ‘https://example.com’ from origin ‘http://localhost:3000’ has been blocked … Read more
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In considering long-run global poverty trends, people are at times too quick to present arguments on what has brought about progress, and what has undermined it. Some champion the increased role of the state, through social spending or the broader … Read more
TSMC at the head of history’s tide: two high walls and one sharp knife *Note: This is a joint translation by Joy Dantong Ma and Jeffrey Ding — all credit for the original goes to the authors and the original … Read more