Categorie: Links
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Links van 10 tot 22 oktober 2025
Microsoft is taking steps to open-sourcing Windows 11 user interface framework – Neowin Microsoft wants to make Windows 11’s UI framework open-source, and it has shared details about this complex process. UI, microsoft HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML — Acko.net Reinventing the DOM to ditch all legacy baggage could coincide with redesigning it for…
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Links van 30 mei tot 14 juli 2025
What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds beyond Ours—Stephen Wolfram Writings We humans have perhaps 100 billion neurons in our brains. But what if we had many more? Or what if the AIs we built effectively had many more? What kinds of things might then become possible? At 100 billion neurons, we know, for…
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Links van 13 tot 30 mei 2025
NASA Study Reveals Venus Crust Surprise – NASA Science New details about the crust on Venus include some surprises about the geology of Earth’s hotter twin, according to new NASA-funded research that describes movements of the planet’s crust. Scientists expected the outermost layer of Venus’ crust would grow thicker and thicker over time given its…
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Links van 19 april tot 13 mei 2025
“Alien Life and How to Find It” presented by Clara Sousa Silva Professor Clara Sousa-Silva presents “Alien Life, and How to Find It”. Over the last few decades, scientists have found thousands of planets beyond our own. Some of those planets might be habitable, and perhaps even inhabited already; but how can we tell? Clara…
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Links van 4 tot 15 april 2025
Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning Musk’s impotent attempts to get his giant shiny phallus to work are the perfect metaphor for the man. Indeed, Starship seemed promising at first if you didn’t ask too many questions. But, after back-to-back failures and having never come close to completing its design brief (including actually landing Starship…
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Links van 23 maart tot 4 april 2025
Роман Федорцов (@rfedortsov_official_account) • Instagram photos and videos Rare beesten uit de zee! beesten, biologie, fotografie Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the Roots of Frank Herbert’s Dune – Reactor Although Lawrence’s narrative was certainly an inspiration for key aspects of Dune, there are also critical contrasts in the portrayals of Lawrence and Paul, the…
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Links van 20 februari tot 1 maart 2025
Hittite Monuments A list of monuments from Hittite civilization with images and brief information. Hittieten, archeologie, geschiedenis (6105) The Discovery of a New Bronze and Iron Age Kingdom in Turkey: The Site of Türkmen-Karahöyük – YouTube Türkmen-Karahöyük is een recent ontdekte archeologische site in Centraal-Anatolië die een onbekend Bronstijd- en IJzertijd-koninkrijk onthult. Uit een inscriptie,…
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Links van 27 januari tot 6 februari 2025
The leading AI models are now very good historians The headaches that LLMs have caused in the classroom are (I believe) more than counterbalanced by what they can offer as tools for research and self-directed learning. For this reason, I’m now even more optimistic about the long-term impact and utility of AI tools for historical…
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Links van 13 tot 27 januari 2025
The 46 Best Pens for 2025: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens | JetPens Elk jaar opnieuw wil ik dan twintig van die dingen kopen. We draw on years of testing to crown the best beginner fountain pen, best gel pen, best pen for note-taking, and more. Each recommendation includes links to related guides so…
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Links van 24 december 2024 tot 7 januari 2025
Tokyo in 3D model | Tokyo Metropolitan Government Digital Twin Realization Project Heel Tokyo in 3D, en helemaal gratis. Tokyo, 3D Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian city | Hub What appears to be evidence of some of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history is etched onto finger-length, clay cylinders…
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Links van 13 tot 24 december 2024
Mirror Bacteria Research Poses Significant Risks, Dozens of Scientists Warn | The Scientist Magazine ® We recently joined a number of other scientists in calling for a certain line of research to not be pursued: work that could result in the creation of “mirror bacteria.” These are bacteria made of all components that natural cells…
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Links van 30 november tot 13 december 2024
Orcas start wearing dead salmon hats again after ditching the trend for 37 years | Live Science Orcas off the coast of Washington State are balancing dead fish on their heads like it’s the 1980s, but researchers still aren’t sure why they do it. orca, beesten Fish Have a Brain Microbiome. Could Humans Have One…
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Links van 21 tot 28 november 2024
The meme-ification of the “Demon Core” The strange transformation of a criticality accident into dark Internet humor meme, ongeluk, plutonium How animals learned to hibernate and why we can’t do it (yet) | Aeon Essays The conventional view is that humans and other creatures around us live between periods of waking and sleeping. But it…
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Links van 15 tot 20 november 2024
There’s a ’climate bomb’ ticking beneath the Arctic ice. How can we prepare? | Aeon Videos Dramatic images of massive ice shelves breaking off into the ocean and the emaciated bodies of starving polar bears are often used to illustrate the impact of climate change on Arctic landscapes. However, as this short film explores, perhaps…
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Links van 6 tot 13 november 2024
Carl Sagan’s scientific legacy extends far beyond ’Cosmos’ On what would’ve been the astronomer’s 90th trip around the Sun, here’s a look at his legacy as a scientist, advocate and communicator. wetenschap, Carl Sagan Solving the Siberian Crater Mystery In the northern reaches of Russia, enigmatic craters have begun appearing in broad expanses of windswept…