Bookmarks tagged “science”
39 bookmarks tagged “science”
Definitely not Windows 95: What operating systems keep things running in sp
The updates don’t come every spring and fall, but space operating systems keep evolving.
Quantum computing for the very curious
Presented in an experimental mnemonic medium that makes it almost effortless to remember what you read
Chernobyl DevOps: Software Engineering, Disaster Management, and Observability
Or at least, that’s the story that operators working for FirstEnergy in a power substation in Wadsworth, Ohio, just a few miles southwest of Akron, had in front of them. All systems seemed…
'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish?
You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign landfill sites overflowing with British rubbish, Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports on a global waste crisis
Should We Stop Keeping Pets?
Research into animals’ emotional lives has cast doubt on the ethics of petkeeping.
The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
Part 1 of 2: "The Road to Superintelligence". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about.
5 Surprising Facts About The First Galaxies In The Universe
One of the most remarkable facts about our Universe is that it hasn’t been around forever. The clumps and clusters of matter we see — planets, stars, gas clouds, galaxies and more — grew out of…
Hacking Habits: How To Make New Behaviors Last For Good - 99U
Blog :: Want to write everyday? Start exercising? Quit smoking? We look at how to hack our brains' hard-wired habit loops to change our lives for the better.
The Trip Treatment
Research into psychedelics may hold a key to coping with anxiety, addiction, and existential dread. Michael Pollan on psilocybin.
Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness?
The long read: Philosophers and scientists have been at war for decades over the question of what makes human beings more than complex robots
The scientific evidence against spanking, timeouts, and sleep training
So when you were punished as a kid, did you absolutely, never again take an extra cookie from the cookie jar?
The Overprotected Kid - The Atlantic
A preoccupation with safety has stripped childhood of independence, risk-taking, and discovery—without making it safer. A new kind of playground points to a better solution.
Drones and Everything After -- NYMag
The flying, spying, killing machines that are turning humans into superheroes.