A new look at da Vinci’s papers reveals his insightful attempts to probe the nature of gravity 500 years ago

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After the financial meltdown of 2008 it's time to see what we can learn from other systems across the globe. In Malaysia, the international hub for Islamic finance, a new generation of young bankers has found an answer in Islamic banking, which ...

Rant on the selfish act of having children in the Season 2 Finale of Utopia (2014)

Generative A.I is the nuclear bomb of the Information Age. If the Internet doesn’t feel as creative or fun or interesting as you remember it, you’re not alone. The so-called ‘Dead Internet Theory’ explains why. The rise of artificially generated cont ...

Pretty much the first distro that has an actual song about it. Eat your heart out, Ubuntu! :-)

Why do we keep believing that AI will solve the climate crisis, get rid of poverty, and unleash the full potential of human creativity?

Sewing quilts and playing Scrabble: for pensioner Ruth Miller from Britain, that wasn’t enough. After retiring from her teaching job, she wanted to make punk music again. So she founded her own band. It was a huge success.

These models are very, very wrong.

The first single from ‘Supernature’ was originally released in August 2005 and featured remixes by Benny Benassi, Paul Epworth, Tiefschwarz and the exclusive b-side ‘All Night Operator (Pt.1). The single reached no 4 in the UK charts.

After two major outages in as many weeks — including the CrowdStrike crash — alarm bells are ringing about the world's overreliance on Microsoft. Andrew Chang breaks down what happened, who's to blame and digs into just how much of our live ...

There has never been a US president like Donald Trump — and now he’s back, this time with a detailed plan for his second coming.

It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the US empire is not a national government which happens to run nonstop military operations, it’s a nonstop military operation that happens …

The last week this wonderful website felt like an echochamber. Hardly any activity, a static frontpage, not as usual. Are the admins on vacation? Is everyone on vacation? Are there problems running the site? So many questions...

Investor returns imply that the welfare of future human beings is close to irrelevant

As the use of anesthesia in tattooing gains popularity, curiosity surrounds its ‘aftermath.’ What happens to the canvas after they’ve been ‘asleep’ for the entirety of an extremely traumatic tattoo session, and what challenges do they face after comi ...

The right wing has ripped up the consensus on the climate crisis. In this documentary short, we examine how radical groups based in and around 55 Tufton Street have fought net zero. Lobbyists and think tanks simulate public support for antidemocrati ...

The founder of the now-shuttered law firm Mossack Fonseca was among those cleared in the long-awaited ruling that took more than two months to come down.