Catch David on the Numberphile podcast: https://youtu.be/9y1BGvnTyQAPart one on odd polynomials: http://youtu.be/8l-La9HEUIU More links & stuff in full descr...

The ads are a nonstop slurry of surreal products, and I love it

I remember well the first time my certainty of a bright future evaporated, when my confidence in the panacea of technological progress…

In Havana, where data trickles in via overloaded, government-controlled networks—if at all—the people have taken matters into their own hands.

I am often asked if I will “return to cryptocurrency” or begin regularly sharing my thoughts on the topic again. My answer is a wholehearted “no”, but to avoid repeating myself I figure it might be worthwhile briefly explaining why here…

The disappearing divide between “followers” and “friends”

What is it like to live through—and escape—the Uyghur genocide? Tahir Hamut Izgil tells his family’s story in an unprecedented, five-part series.

For years, we were encouraged to store our data online. But it's become increasingly clear that this won't last forever – and now the race is on to stop our memories being deleted.

1/ NFTs grew dramatically this year, finishing the first half of 2021 with over $2.5B in sales https://t.co/JVWKnj8vtq

How My Mindfulness Practice Lead Me To Meltdown

Fifty years ago, IBM introduced the first-ever floppy disk drive, the IBM 23FD, and the first floppy disks. Floppies made punched cards obsolete, and its successors ruled software distribution for the next 20 years. Here’s a look at how and why the floppy disk became an icon.

Over the last 18 months, the early-stage financing market has seen dramatic changes characterized by these three things: A shift from in-person fundraising to virtual fundraising A reduction in financing process timelines from months to weeks A continued increase in the amount of capital available for early stage companies I believe that for the most […]

Oliver Daemen will fly to the edge of space after another passenger who paid $28 million for the seat had a scheduling conflict.

From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement In Let...

These days it seems you can't walk through a bookstore without bumping into a book or magazine pointing out the negative consequences of climate change. Everything from the hottest years on record to ruining astronomy can be tied to climate chang

At the end of this post is an audacious idea about the present and future of software development. In the middle are points about mental models: how important and how difficult they are. But first, a story of the origins of Opera.

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Balaji Srinivasan is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. We cover ways to optimize your information diet, how technology is driving decentralisation, and what that could mean for countries, corporations, and individuals.

Photo via Wikimedia Commons Haruki Murakami has been famous as a novelist since the 1980s. But for a decade or two now, he's become increasingly well known around the world as a novelist who runs.

The striking lack of curiosity of last year

Sleeping in one eight-hour chunk is a very recent phenomenon, and lying awake at night could be good for you, according to scientists and historians.

Professor Jung is interviewed at his home in Switzerland by John Freeman.Theme music: excerpt from Les Francs-Juges by Berlioz, 1825.A lecture on Freud by Th...

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Here's the paper: https://t.co/mEA7KGy8uSAnd here is a good write-up: https://t.co/t2yOcYKoUg— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) July 5, 2021

How decentralized autonomous organizations are automating the corporation.

With a rich legacy of building businesses in new industries, backing innovators and ploughing back profits into philanthropy, the Tata Group has operated like a venture capital firm.

The Taliban version of blitzkrieg in Afghanistan is being watched with ‘shock and awe’, not just in Western capitals and regional countries

The singer said she had not known she needed to petition the court to be released from her conservatorship, placing a focus on the court-appointed counsel who has represented her for 13 years.

These ultrabright flashes have recently been tracked for days, upending ideas about the cataclysms that create them.