Shank Mods on the Sony PVM-4300: the world's largest CRT
That’s a big TV!
Dean Burnett on the misunderstandings of smartphones and their effect on the brain
Is smartphone a misnomer or an ironic name?
Apple reportedly ceasing production of the Vision Pro
7.8 – too much vision, too much pro
For Chemistry World, Katrina Megget on the chemical complexity of a cup of tea: Drinking tea has been popular for millennia. Slowly the science is starting to reveal the complex chemical nature of our favourite brew.
Some arbitrary facts about the number 2025
A powerful number indeed.
The top 11 posts of 2024
What posts were the best in 2024?
With some paper, a 555 timer, a CD4017 decade counter and some LEDs, Ben Jemmett made his very own flashy paper Christmas tree and put all the necessary files and instruction into a GitHub repo. (via)
Jared Hutchins on how big data created the modern dairy cow
Jared Hutchins wrote about the history of dairy cow breeding and how big data replaced the more traditional (and arguably eugenicist-led) approaches of the early 20th century: This is the story of how the power of big data, combined with an ambitious public-private partnership between dairy farmers and the US Department of Agriculture, enabled the …
Maho Motoyama's geometric Christmas paper boxes
Deck the halls with boughs of carefully folded holly!
Tetration and why you probably never learnt about it at school
That’s a lot of exponentiation.
JSTOR Daily on how a ‘single atom’ can transform the colour of birds
Multi-coloured birbs!
HTML for People is a web project by Blake Watson that aims to help people make their own websites using the humble markup language: HTML isn’t only for people working in the tech field. It’s for anybody, the way documents are for anybody. HTML is just another type of document. A very special one—the one the web is built on.
(via; quote from the original website, shared via CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence)
Update: there’s now a Spanish version.