In November 1949 Chien-Shiung Wu and her graduate student, Irving Shaknov, descended to a laboratory below Columbia University’s Pupin Hall. They needed antimatter for a new experiment, so they made their own, using a machine called a cyclotron. The machine’s … Read more
Blue Origin manufactured this working solar cell prototype from lunar regolith simulants. Since 2021, Blue Origin has been making solar cells and transmission wire from regolith simulants. To make long-term presence on the Moon viable, we need abundant electrical power. … Read more
A look at Linux kernel developers’ various revision control solutions through the years, Linus Torvalds’ decision to use BitKeeper and the controversy that followed, and how Git came to be created. Originally, Linus Torvalds used no revision control at all. … Read more
Sometime around 2015 there was a mysterious vibe shift in web design. It came so suddenly, and with so much decisive force, that it stood apart from the normal ebb and flow of aesthetic trends. It was like an invasive … Read more
In this interesting history, which is the actual description of the origin of this use from Professor Corbato, he explains that daemon originally had the connotation of “an attendant … or indwelling spirit” and that By the late 16th century, … Read more
Friday, 25 February 2022 Last month The Information published an intriguing report about Facebook’s decision to cancel its own ground-up OS for virtual and augmented reality — a project known internally as “XROS” — in favor of “VROS”, the Android-derived system that already powers … Read more
Jump to navigation Jump to search The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind Author Julian Jaynes Country United States Language English Subject Consciousness Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Mariner Books Publication date 1976 Media type Print (Hardcover, Paperback, Digital) … Read more
Jul 14, 2021 News Blue Origin’s foundation, Club for the Future, selects 19 space-based charities to each receive a $1 million grant Today, Blue Origin’s foundation, Club for the Future, announced 19 non-profit charitable organizations will each be…
2/20/2018 1 Comment The verb decide has deadly interesting origins. Though it came through Middle English deciden, Old French decider, and Latin decidere, you can tell that there’s the prefix de-, kind of meaning “off”. This was in the language as far as etymologists can trace … Read more
Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus arrive by car at the Wuhan Institute of Virology on February 3. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images) The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives … Read more