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.
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”
The results of the first State of HTML survey are in...
Web components were a big topic.
The pelagic zone
I’d like to hear LL Cool J write a song about the pelagic zone!
Welcome back Archie, the Internet’s first search engine
All Archie, no comics!
What is the Richat Structure?
The Eye of the Sahara.
A meteor in the Portuguese sky, caught on video by Milena Refacho on Instagram. Scientists claimed that the meteor traveled at more than 100,000 miles per hour and the bright blue-green* flash came from its metallic composition; the most common metallic meteors are iron-nickel, so green is a typical color.
‘No Web Without Women‘: a website dedicated to the innovations of women in computer science and tech by Selman Design. It’s nice to see a mix of women from different races and ethnicities, including Marie Van Brittan Brown who invented the first home security system in 1966 with her husband.
IEEE's 'Jamaica Section' held a STEM workshop at the University of Technology in Kingston
‘[…] the country plans to launch STEM schools that integrate science, technology, engineering, and math subjects because “that’s where the magic happens.”’
For Rest of World, Victoria Turk analyzed 3,000 Midjourney images to see how they portrayed different countries, cultures, and races: for example, ‘An Indian person’ [the prompt] is almost always an old man with a beard
while ‘A Mexican person’ is usually a man in a sombrero.
Gorgeous photos of the Moon in May 2021
Will you shoot the moon with me?
Williams Racing's James Vowles calls teams car parts Excel spreadsheet 'a joke'
Putting the formula into Formula 1!
Some links about pi for Pi Day
A celebration of transcendental numeration, no matter how you slice it.
What is frisson?
A fancy word for chills.
TIL: Pakistan is home to more than 7,000 known glaciers, and therefore has more glacial ice than any other country (excluding the polar regions).