The question how good good enough is and at which point a website is ready to go online is keeping me busy lately. The web is in bad shape and it’s because we’re making it too easy on ourselves. Why 543 KB keep me up at night - Manuel Matuzović
The battle over vaccinations ramped up in Connecticut this week as state lawmakers narrowly advanced a bill—with last-minute amendments—aimed at banning religious vaccine exemptions for children. Anti-vaxxers wage war in Conn., lawmaker calls vaccines “witches brew” | Ar
It was just before 3 AM on February 28th, 1990, when the space shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy Space Center to deliver a human skull and a classified satellite to low Earth orbit. Meet the Amateur Astronomers Hunting for Spy Satellites - Supercluster
The tree of life just got another major branch. Researchers recently found a certain rare and mysterious microbe called a hemimastigote in a clump of Nova Scotian soil. What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life | Quanta Magazine
The median employee at Align Technologies, the company that makes Invisalign, makes $13,180 a year. The CEO makes $41,758,338. That’s a pay ratio of 3,168:1. Meet the 10 most overpaid CEOs in the U.S.
"We are sidestepping all of the scientific challenges that have held fusion energy back for more than half a century," says the director of an Australian company that claims its hydrogen-boron fusion technology is already working a billion times better than expected. Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech
In May 1997, a 3-year-old boy developed what at first seemed like the common cold. When his symptoms—sore throat, fever, and cough—persisted for six days, he was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong. There his cough worsened, and he began gasping for air. A Vaccine Won’t Stop the New Coronavirus - The Atlantic
CNA/EWTN News).- As Ash Wednesday kicks off the Lenten season, Catholics enter into 40 days of abstaining from sweets, technology, alcohol and other luxuries. But did you know that Catholic monks once brewed beer specifically for a liquid-only Lenten fast? These 17th century monks did a beer fast for Lent
Just over a year ago, a trio of astronomers set a record for the most distant object ever discovered in the solar system. Because the small world was found more than three times farther from the Sun than Pluto, the team fittingly dubbed it FarOut. In pursuit of Planet Nine | Astronomy.com
In early December, Spotify launched its annual personalized Wrapped playlist with its users’ most-streamed sounds of 2019. That has become a bit of a tradition and isn’t necessarily anything new, but for 2019, it also gave users a look back at how they used Spotify over the last decade. How Spotify ran the largest Google Dataflow job ever for Wrapped 2019 | Tec
How would you feel if your expenses were declined because your meal contained meat? That's the situation at property developers Igloo Regeneration, where all corporate entertaining, workshop catering and even staff expenses must now be vegetarian if staff wish to be reimbursed. No putting meat on expenses, says property firm - BBC News
At a time when the average company on the S&P 500 only survives for two decades, it’s surprising to see that there are companies that have existed for centuries around the world. The oldest company still operating today is in Japan. See the oldest company in each country around the world
Although health care expenditure per capita is higher in the USA than in any other country, more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, and 41 million more have inadequate access to care. Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA - ScienceDirect
“Allí,” says Bernardeta Gómez in her native Spanish, pointing to a large black line running across a white sheet of cardboard propped at arm’s length in front of her. “There.”It isn’t exactly an impressive feat for a 57-year-old woman—except that Gómez is blind. A new implant for blind people jacks directly into the brain - MIT Technolo
We talk about metabolism like it's something we can manipulate by gulping a pill, downing some green tea, or running faster. You've seen the articles headlined "Boost your metabolism" or "Try this high-metabolism diet to lose weight." Most of us misunderstand metabolism. Here are 9 facts to clear that up. - V
FLIF is a novel lossless image format which outperforms PNG, lossless WebP, lossless BPG, lossless JPEG2000, and lossless JPEG XR in terms of compression ratio. FLIF - Free Lossless Image Format
ina Williams eats greens for breakfast every day. She didn’t always. There was a time when the only vegetables she regularly ate were canned corn or potatoes. Inside Google's Efforts to Engineer Its Food for Healthiness | OneZero
In the future, robots could take blood samples, benefiting patients and healthcare workers alike. The device provides quick results and would allow healthcare professionals to spend more time treating patients in hospitals and other settings. New Robot Does Superior Job Sampling Blood | Rutgers Today
This had the effect of bottlenecking deep learning, limiting it to the few projects that met those conditions. Over the last couple years, however, things have changed. Deep learning isn’t hard anymore - Towards Data Science
Like Socrates, he knew that being honest with oneself is the most philosophical act of all. It was 1937 and Ludwig Wittgenstein had just arrived at the house of his Russian teacher, Fania Pascal, in Cambridge. Opinion | Wittgenstein’s Confession - The New York Times
Today, FIDO security keys are reshaping the way online accounts are protected by providing an easy, phishing-resistant form of two-factor authentication (2FA) that is trusted by a growing number of websites, including Google, social networks, cloud providers, and many others. Google Online Security Blog: Say hello to OpenSK: a fully open-source secur
Sitespeed.io is a set of Open Source tools that makes it easy to monitor and measure the performance of your web site. Measuring performance shouldn’t be hard: you should be able to have full control of your metrics, own your own data and you should be able to do it without paying top dollars. Welcome to the wonderful world of Web Performance
The protein and muscle guru Luc van Loon wants you to bulk up—and keep what you've got. At a conference in 2012, Luc van Loon was presenting some exciting data from a newly published study. After a heroic research effort that took 2. 4 Laws of Muscle
Many people rely on Google Maps not only for its navigation instructions but also for its ability to reroute them to avoid heavily congested areas. Artist lugs around wagon full of phones to create virtual traffic jams in G
Learn how to automate away as much maintenance as possible using Renovate, Travis CI, and CodeCov Last year I wrote a five part series of articles that built a React boilerplate using Parcel. Bring In The Bots, And Let Them Maintain Our Code! - By Patrick Lee Scott
Here’s the good news: China has launched the first all-electric cargo ship. China Launches World's First All-Electric Cargo Ship, Will Use It To Haul C