Ars Technica discussed neutrinos and their importance despite our difficulty in understanding how they work: Somehow, neutrinos went from just another random particle to becoming tiny monsters that require multi-billion-dollar facilities to understand.
Practical Engineering lists every type of bridge in 15 minutes
They’re all good, truss me.
WIRED on Perplexity AI as a ‘bullshit machine’
Perplexity indeed!
Magazine photos fooled age-verification cameras in Japan
Foiled by a glossy mag.
Elise Cutts explored the mysteries of how water freezes for Quanta Magazine: For a process that’s anything but exotic, ice nucleation remains surprisingly mysterious. Chemists can’t reliably predict the effect of a given impurity or surface, let alone design one to hinder or promote ice formation.
Wiby – a search engine for lovers of the old Web
What is Wiby and why should you use it?
Espírito Santo blind snake
It’s just a small snek boi/gal
TIL: The Democratic Republic of Congo is now the second-largest producer of copper in the world, ahead of Peru but behind Chile. Last year, according to the DRC Ministry of Mines, the country’s copper production amounted to approximately 2.84 million tonnes.
Nicole Froio on Black Brazilian activists maintaining its history in the nation's tech future
“We have to preserve this memory, so [slavery] never happens again”
Remember eWorld, Apple’s attempt at an ISP?
Apple Online didn’t really work out that way.
The results of the first State of HTML survey are in...
Web components were a big topic.
What happens if you drop sodium metal into a toilet? This was so satisfying to watch.