Claim: It is estimated that there are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Origin One popular fact included on numerous list of “science facts that sound wrong” is the claim that there are more trees … Read more
Note: this essay is co-written with Eryney Marrogi, who helped seed the initial idea and edited this piece a fair bit. On a related note, I’m helping him run an NYC meetup event on Wednesday, November 20th in Williamsburg, you … Read more
What Ruby’s top-level methods actually are, who they belong to and how they are namespaced. A few days ago, a curious question was asked on /r/ruby, which can be boiled down to this: How are the methods of the Kernel … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is co-founder and co-chair of Oaktree Capital Management and author of ‘Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds … Read more
Article body copy After following a trail under hydroelectric lines and through Douglas fir forest, Rowan Rampton, then a graduate student in biology at the University of Calgary, emerges in a scrubby high-elevation grassland outside Castlegar in the west Kootenay … Read more
CURRENTLY a I enjoy emoji.But the categories puzzle me. Take the animal emojis, for example. Here’s how the Unicode Consortium groups them: animal-mammal 🐵 🐒 🐶 🐕 🐩 🐺 🐱 🐈 🦁 🐯 🐅 🐆 🐴 🐎 🦄 🐮 🐂 … Read more
Discussion (93) 2018-11-24 20:20:23 by Giraffe: I worked this out a couple of months ago. Seconding the antimemetics division series, it is my very favorite~ 2018-11-25 06:55:09 by David S: Is “CASE HATE RED” a broken link by accident, or … Read more
A conservative take on the history computing devices. Last August, in an article about the history of the calculator, I opened with the following quip: “I find it difficult to talk about the history of the computer. The actual record … Read more
“According to Huntress Labs, a Shodan search for “Confluence” returns more than 200,000 results, and searches for the Confluence favicon return more than 5,000. These figures aren’t an indication of the number of vulnerable instances, but do show how many … Read more
Crossposted from substack. As we all know, sugar is sweet and so are the $30B in yearly revenue from the artificial sweetener industry. Four billion years of evolution endowed our brains with a simple, straightforward mechanism to make sure we … Read more