John Oliver: Why Everything is a Scam: FIFA, Mergers, & Information Literacy – Trevor Noah
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LaTeX Coffee Stains
This package provides an essential feature to LATEX that has been missing for too long. It adds a coffee stain to your documents. A lot of time can be saved by printing stains directly on the page rather than adding them manually. You can choose from four different stain types.
Beloved '70s sci-fi series confirmed for reboot with Doctor Who director | Radio Times
It's been almost 50 years since Blake's 7 first hit screens, but fans could be in for quite the comeback, as a reboot is in development! Doctor Who and The Last of Us director Peter Hoar has opened a "genre-based" production company, Multitude Productions, and has acquired the IP for the iconic '70s and '80s sci-fi hit along with exec Matthew Bouch and producer Jason Haigh-Ellery, Deadline has confirmed.
Cows Really Can Use Sophisticated Tools
Veronika adeptly used the deck brush to scratch her itches, manipulating it to target different areas. Across the randomized trials, she chose the bristled end to scratch her hindquarters but switched to the stick end for softer lower-body areas. Across repeat trials, she made consistent choices about how to wield the broom. “When I saw the footage, it was immediately clear that this was not accidental,” said study author and cognitive biologist Alice Auersperg in a statement.
One second to compute the largest Fibonacci number I can – Sheafification of G
Most of us are familiar with the Fibonacci sequence. What's the largest Fibonacci number you can compute in 1 second? I'm not setting any world records, here; I don't own a supercomputer.
Thomas Nagel: What is it Like to be a Bat? | Philosophy Break
Since its 1974 publication, Nagel’s essay has become a mainstay for syllabuses on the philosophy of mind. It’s famous not only for its brilliant title, but also its tantalizing characterization of consciousness, which Nagel then wields to challenge reductionist approaches to the philosophy of mind. “[A]n organism has conscious mental states,” Nagel writes, if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism — something it is like for the organism.
The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
Radio buttons are built into web browsers. Why are we using a UI library that wraps another UI library that rebuilds radio buttons from scratch? Why does rendering a radio button require multiple dependencies and several kilobytes of JavaScript? How did we make a built-in browser control so complicated?
The secret medieval tunnels that we still don't understand
Around 2,000 strange tunnels have been found around central Europe. These aren’t like the well-known catacombs of Paris or Rome. Known as the erdstall, these passages are extremely narrow, never more than two feet (60 centimetres) wide nor high enough for an adult to walk in, and sometimes the passages become seemingly impossibly narrow, as small as 16 inches (40 centimetres) in diameter. Determining their age and purpose is made difficult by the fact that almost no archaeological evidence has been found inside any of them. A ploughshare was found in one, millstones in a couple others, but apart from that the erdstall are eerily empty. Carbon analyses of coal and pottery fragments found within point to construction dates of around 900 to 1200 AD, but no written records from the Middle Ages mention the erdstall’s existence.
Hollywood lied to you about Ancient Rome. Here’s the truth | Mary Beard: Full Interview
We've inherited the history of Ancient Rome through movies, ruins, and shallow stories. The truth is far messier, says classicist Mary Beard. The hidden side of Roman life that screens rarely capture is chaotic; crowded streets teeming with Romans whose everyday lives were shaped by social hierarchies and familial obligations. Mary Beard unpacks what archaeology, literature, and even shoes tell us about the Romans’ daily lives. From the role of slaves in dressing elites to the rowdy crowds at chariot races, she shows how we’ve underestimated their complexity.
23 Ways You’re Already Living in the Chinese Century | WIRED
A DECADE AGO, China’s political leaders laid out an ambitious industrial plan: By 2025, they pledged, their country would be a world capital, with the goal of moving from “Chinese speed to Chinese quality, the transformation of Chinese products to Chinese brands.” This is the difference, they wrote, between “Made in China” and “Created in China.”