Be a sketch artist. A little deduction game where “you are a sketch artist. Use clues from witnesses to draw the suspect and catch them!” There are “Case 1 of 68” so you can burn a lot of time here. […]
How do gills work?. “The air we breathe has an oxygen concentration of 200,000 parts per million. Water, on the other hand, only has a concentration of 4 to 8 parts per million.” Fish have to run a lot of […]
Benevolent dictator for life. “… is a tongue-in-cheek title given to a small number of free and open-source software development leaders, typically project founders who retain the final say in disputes or arguments within the community.” It is the old-school […]
We can already eradicate mosquitoes if we want. “The best way to find and kill mosquitoes quickly is to recruit other mosquitoes.” The piece walks through how sterile-male releases work: you breed mosquitoes, sterilize the males, and let them outcompete […]
See the Sun like never before with most detailed images yet. Images and footage show “whirlpools” of activity that it has not been possible to see before. It is the Sun’s magnetic field getting twisted by hot gas, and that […]
Claude loves load-bearing words. “load-bearing 39.47× more frequent in this cluster” comes from scraping “1,000 GitHub Pull Requests daily to analyse trends in vocabulary.” The page is basically a dashboard for the weirdly specific words that show up around Claude. […]
I Own 28,000 Books. “This is the first thing you learn when your collection crosses from “large” into “logistical situation”: the books will outgrow any space you put them in. Not eventually. Quickly.” A guy with 28,000 books breaks down […]
A modern apartment is full of things that once drew awe. “If we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing […]
How trains led to time zones. “At best, people might miss their train; at worst, trains were more likely to collide when using a single track.” Railroads needed everyone to agree on the clock, so in 1883 US and Canadian […]
Take Google’s phishing test. “AI is already making phishing attacks more sophisticated, personalized, and common.” Google’s Jigsaw made a quick quiz to practice noticing the little tells before you click. ~ learn more