Slowness Is a Virtue
Modern culture is focused exclusively on questions that can be answered quickly. In academia, that’s what you can get funding for. Fast questions can be answered within a few weeks. You can then publish a paper. You can start collecting citations. You can present your answer at conferences. This is how you build a career. […]
After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up
It’s all about momentum
In physics and in your life, the only metric you should care about is momentum. I enjoy rally games. What made them truly click for me is understanding that rally driving is all about weight transfer. A car is a spring, and any of your inputs, throttle, brake or steering, unsettles the 1000 kg of […]
How getting richer made teenagers less free
Horrific child abuse. (Archive Photos / Stringer) In 1913, journalist Helen Todd talked to hundreds of 14- to 16-year-olds working in American factories. Most of their fathers were dead or had crippling health issues thanks to decades of work in unsafe factories, and their mothers were supporting an average of five children on low wages. […]
Online Textbook for Braid groups and knots and tangles
Skip to main content Matthew Salomone Contents PrevUpNext ContentsPrevUpNext Front Matter 1 Braids and Permutations Anagram Algebra From Braid-A-Grams to Braids Invariants for Braids Braids and Knots 2 Rational Tangles The Rational Tangle Dance Tangles and Continued Fractions Rational Knots and Conway Notation Some Objectives and Videos 3 Knots and Links A Three-Color Problem Knot […]
GitHub Actions for Self-Hosted Runners Price Increase Postponed
Business Uploaded by PTReporter on Dec 17, 2025 GitHub update on the postponement of the price increase for GitHub Actions for self-hosted runners to $0.002 per minute. Below is a screenshot of the update shared on X (@github). GitHub had earlier announced in a post we published that it would increase the cost of self-hosted […]
RCE via ND6 Router Advertisements in FreeBSD
. I. Background rtsold(8) and rtsol(8) are programs which process router advertisement packets as part of the IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration (SLAAC) mechanism. II. Problem Description The rtsol(8) and rtsold(8) programs do not validate the domain search list options provided in router advertisement messages; the option body is passed to resolvconf(8) unmodified. resolvconf(8) is a […]
Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Lesson 1
Right to left. The last sequence of hieroglyphs might be confusing. Why 13, 11, and 12 and not 11-13? This is a common feature called “honorific transposition” and often found in names. When a certain god or goddess is being honored, their name is pushed to the front. In this case, Re is being honored, […]
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review, often against guidance
Survey results suggest that peer reviewers are increasingly turning to AI.Credit: Panther Media Global/Alamy More than 50% of researchers have used artificial intelligence while peer reviewing manuscripts, according to a survey of some 1,600 academics across 111 countries by the publishing company Frontiers. Nearly one-quarter of respondents said that they had increased their use of […]
’Ghost jobs’ are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them
7 hours ago ShareSave Megan LawtonBusiness reporter ShareSave AFP via Getty Images The phrase ”ghost jobs” might sound like something from Halloween, but it refers to the practice of employers advertising vacancies that don’t exist. In some cases the positions may have already been filled, but in others the job might not have ever been […]