Ten computer codes that transformed science
From Fortran to arXiv.org, these advances in programming and platforms sent biology, climate science and physics into warp speed.
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Have We Already Been Visited by Aliens?
An eminent astrophysicist argues that signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life have appeared in our skies. What’s the evidence for his extraordinary claim?
Everything Is Broken
And how to fix it
Learning Curve: Learning to Suffer
BPL columnist Maggie Slepian unpacks suffering in endurance sports - what it means, and what to do with it.
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Can You Treat Loneliness By Creating an Imaginary Friend?
Tulpamancers imagine talking to the tulpa, sometimes for more than an hour a day, and eventually, perhaps after several months, the…
Maximizing Developer Effectiveness
To be successful at digital transformation you need to optimize the key feedback loops in your software engineering organization
Have the tables turned on NoSQL?
NoSQL was the next big thing in system architecture in 2011, but overall interest in it has plateaued recently. What is NoSQL, what does it have to do with modern development, and is it worth implementing in your project?
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Among the Insurrectionists at the Capitol | The New Yorker
By the end of President Donald Trump’s crusade against American democracy—after a relentless deployment of propaganda, demagoguery, intimidation, and…
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Find Satoshi
A Six Degrees of Separation puzzle. Is it possible to locate a man given only his photograph and first name?
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Can You Treat Loneliness By Creating an Imaginary Friend? - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus
Tulpamancers imagine talking to the tulpa, sometimes for more than an hour a day, and eventually, perhaps after several months, the…
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Americans Get Less Sleep Than 20 Years Ago
More Adults Report They Sleep No More Than 6 Hours Per Night, CDC Says
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Earth to reach temperature tipping point in next 20 to 30 years, new study finds
Earth's ability to absorb nearly a third of human-caused carbon emissions through plants could be halved within the next two decades at the current rate of warming, according to a new study in Science Advances by researchers at Northern Arizona University, the Woodwell Climate Research Center and the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Using more than two decades of data from measurement towers in every major biome across the globe, the team identified a critical temperature tipping point beyond...
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How Many Minutes Per Day Should You Spend Outside During Winter?
Plus, lessons from a Norwegian town well north of the Arctic Circle
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How to Escape a Sinking Ship (Like, Say, the 'Titanic') | WIRED
First, put on your fanciest clothes. And at 1:15 am, consider heading down to Deck D.
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Trumpist masculinity reaches its high water mark
A man in tactical gear allegedly brought his mom to the Capitol raid.
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The American Abyss
A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next.
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The Hacker Who Archived Parler Explains How She Did It (and What Comes Next)
The hacker, donk_enby, explained that she only scraped what was publicly available: "I hope that it can be used to hold people accountable and to prevent more death."
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Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
The actions taken by Big Tech have a resonance that goes beyond the context of domestic U.S. politics. Even if they were right, they will still push the world to Internet 3.0.
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The ‘Shared Psychosis’ of Donald Trump and His Loyalists
Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee explains the outgoing president’s pathological appeal and how to wean people from it
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The 432-year-old manual on social distancing
In this spookily prescient booklet, people are advised to keep six feet apart, avoid shaking hands and only send one person per household out to do the shopping.
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How the United States Chose to Become a Country of Homelessness
Co-published with The Nation. For months, our leaders have known that the Covid-19 crisis could force millions of people from their homes. They decided to let it happen.
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Why Did This Crazy Kitplane Kill So Many Pilots?
Jim Bede aimed high with his little homebuilt BD-5 bullet, but engine woes and questionable financial moves caused him to overshoot the target.
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2020 letter | Dan Wang
(This piece is my year in review; here’s my letter from 2019 ) I. Inspiration It’s difficult to identify a great economic reason to explore space. There are…
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An Existential Crisis in Neuroscience - Issue 94: Evolving - Nautilus
Happy Holidays. This week we are reprinting our top stories of 2020. This article first appeared online in our “Maps” issue in…
