This Does Not Compute on Sony's MiniDisc laptop
Who needs an MD player when you can have a whole laptop?
A time-lapse video of a pine cone growing into a pine tree
Watch it grow!
1-bit Puerto Rico is an interactive web project by rubén rodríguez where he has created 1-bit maps of Puerto Rico.
Happy birthday to Alan Emtage, the unsung Black pioneer of search engines
Alan Emtage is a Bajan-Canadian computer scientist who created Archie, the world’s first Internet search engine. It helped users find files on public FTP archives and was created and implemented in 1989, nearly a full decade before Google came onto the scene (that also means it’s as old as me!) If you find this page …
Jess Sankhavaram-Peck on how and why Google products suck now
They were really putting radium in the water, huh?
23andMe is struggling and I can’t find my tiny violin anywhere. I’m sure some people have taken comfort in their DNA results but so many haven’t and I’ve always had concerns about the data.
Belphegor’s prime: a delightfully devilish number
Primes and pitchforks.
Good news for Oceanic frogs—research suggests frogs in other contintents hold the key to fighting off deadly fungi that are killing them: […] There’s evidence that some frogs are naturally evolving resistance. Scientists are also trying to exploit the fungus’s sensitivity to temperature by building Bd-free (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) habitats or moving frogs to locales where the fungus can’t survive.
otterwiki is Python-based wiki software. As someone who loves Python and wikis, I had to post it here. Sadly the otter is just for the name and logo.
Arduino: can run DOOM and a linear regression model
Is there anything Arduino boards can’t do? (Don’t answer that.)
An academic paper on 'quantum Black creative geographies'
A different kind of quantum realm.
Knowable Magazine wrote about the Cybathlon, an international event that focuses on robotics and assistive technology research for disabled people.