Shout out to Dr André Isaacs, the chemistry professor bringing joy and education via social media
‘It’s important to believe in your students.’
Some Christmas mathematics with lights around a tree
John D. Cook gave us an early Christmas hypothetical involving wrapping Christmas lights around a tree trunk to see what length of lights you’d need to make n turns around the tree.
How to browse the Web on a DOS PC with MicroWeb
Remember DOS? It’s back, in MicroWeb form. Or something.
Hey, it's a walnut Bluetooth speaker!
A cracking project? Sounds good to me!
Shout out to Dr. Muyinatu “Bisi” Bell who developed a new imaging algorithm to help dark-skinned patients
A breakthrough in photoacoustic imaging.
Scientific American wrote a profile about Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the U.S.’s first black female physician who cared for patients from cradle to grave
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ASH is a real-life Pokédex for kids to identify plants and animals
Who’s that chrysanthemum?
Decker is a multimedia platform that 'builds on the legacy of HyperCard'
Old tech, new tricks.
A marble clock featuring... black and white marbles
Talk about ’round’ the clock!
Christmas in Linux
Deck the halls of your Linux distro-ho-ho!
Black in AI is a place for sharing ideas, fostering collaborations and discussing initiatives to increase the presence of Black people in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
A comprehensive article from DebugBear on website carbon emissions, the data, and why the reports and calculators that use them may be flawed.
Jeremy B. Merrill went all in trying to find linguistic variations of the classic phrase “Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends”. A masterclass in NLP.
How to survive if you're in a car that's hanging off a cliff
Drive slow, homie.
There's iron atoms in that thar Earth's inner core
‘Our advanced calculations show that iron atoms display collective motion with fast diffusion in the premelting regime, leading to the ultralow shear modulus and ultrahigh Poisson’s ratio.’
Hippos are horrible at chewing, and their giant tusks and front teeth are to blame, according to a PLOS ONE paper from 4th October. To be honest, I’m not surprised as watching them chew food on Instagram made my mouth hurt.
Rest of World on the world’s last internet cafes
‘As long as ownership of personal computers is low, then we will still be doing some business. There is so much one cannot do on the phone conveniently,’
Science media on the super blue moon from last month
True blue, baby I love moon!
Text classification using... gzip??
Why waste time class lot word when gzip do trick?
Matt Parker looks at the maths behind needing just 27 lottery tickets to guarantee a win
I like those odds!