First-ever recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks — School of Medicine University of Louisville
<p>Imagine reliving your entire life in the space of seconds. Like a flash of lightning, you are outside of your body, watching memorable moments you lived through. This process, known as “life recall,” can be similar to what it is like to have a near-death experience.</p> <p>What happens inside your brain during these experiences and after death are questions that have puzzled neuroscientists for centuries.</p> <p>However, a new study from Dr. Ajmal Zemmar of the University of Louisville and colleagues throughout the world, “Enhanced Interplay of Neuronal Coherence and Coupling in the Dying Human Brain,” published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, suggests that your brain may remain active and coordinated during and even after the transition to death, and be programmed to orchestrate the whole ordeal.</p>
Game design is simple, actually – Raph Koster
<p>Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design.</p>
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
<p>Today, we’re preserving a cornerstone of gaming history that is near and dear to our hearts. Together, Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License. Our goal is simple: to place historically important code in the hands of students, teachers, and developers so they can study it, learn from it, and, perhaps most importantly, play it.</p>
State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions · Articles
<p>This is a follow-up to my previous article, Terminal Emulators Battle Royale – Unicode Edition! from 2023, in which I documented Unicode support across terminal emulators. Since then, the ucs-detect tool and its supporting blessed library have been extended to automatically detect support of DEC Private Modes, sixel graphics, pixel size, and software version.</p>
What Did Medieval Peasants Know? – The Atlantic
<p>In the foreword to her book A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, the historian Barbara W. Tuchman offered a warning to people with simplistic ideas about what life was like in the medieval world, and what that might say about humanity as a whole: You think you know, but you have no idea.</p>
A Cell So Minimal That It Challenges Definitions of Life | Quanta Magazine
The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by genome sequencing.
MetaFilter | Community Weblog
MetaFilter is a community weblog that anyone can contribute a link or comment to.
A Web Components Primer
A tweet-thread turned blog post that talks about custom elements.
Shoelace: A forward-thinking library of web components.
Hand-crafted custom elements for any occasion.
Today In Alternate History
A Daily Blog of Events that Never Occurred Today. Imagine what would be, if history had occurred a bit differently? Who says it didn\'t, somewhere. These fictional news items explore that possibility.
Advanced Search Results – Fonts In Use
A searchable archive of typographic design, indexed by typeface, format, and topic.
Red Blob Games
Explaining algorithms with interactive diagrams. Sinds jaar en dag een referentie.
Artvee
Browse and download high-resolution, public domain paintings, posters and illustrations
Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D – Ryan Kaplan
I posted a WebGL demo to twitter and it blew up! This post talks about how it works under the hood.
Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable
Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance
How I Used Blender to Turn 2D Art into 3D
Join me as I try to transform a 2D concept art into 3D model using Blender! In this video, I show how I turned a 2D Halloween pumpkin concept into fully detailed 3D model. From sculpting the base mesh to hand painting textures with the Ucupaint addon, every step of the 3D creation process is covered.