Curious Loop

What makes learning hard? How can we make it easier? Cognitive load theory explains how we learn and how to do it better.

Rocket engines use a multitude of cooling concepts to keep them from melting themselves. Learn more about engine cooling in this article.

General-purpose GPU computing helped launch the deep learning era. As ML models have grown larger and more computationally intense, however, they have changed the way GPUs are...

We need fewer things to work on. Starting now.

Data-driven approach to history

OPINION: More than a third of Americans don’t log enough hours in bed, provoking serious impacts on their health. Diet is an important and under-recognized reason.

The JWST must perform a bewildering array of tasks — unfurling panels, mirrors and more — how can engineers trust telescope’s reliability?

Why have humans played games in their homes for millennia? Besides being fun, they promote togetherness, mental agility and emotional release

Propaganda is most impactful when people don't think it's propaganda, and most decisive when it's censorship you never knew happened. When we imagine that the U.S. military only occasionally and slightly influences U.S. movies, we are extremely badly deceived.

For a fee, companies will tackle damaging search results. But is the new economy of digital makeovers making things worse?

A Hollywood treasure and wicked wit who pioneered the depiction of older women in an industry that ignored them

The CDC’s recent move highlights the growing problems that arise when federal agencies ignore scientific data

According to the people behind delivery apps and drones, innovation means access to any restaurant you want, whenever you want it. But is that what we really want?

According to the people behind delivery apps and drones, innovation means access to any restaurant you want, whenever you want it. But is that what we really want?

According to the people behind delivery apps and drones, innovation means access to any restaurant you want, whenever you want it. But is that what we really want?

A look into the anxious aspirations of young people.

Scientists have a new understanding of the mysterious Antikythera mechanism that challenges assumptions about ancient technology

When Emile Leray’s Citroen 2CV broke down in the Sahara Desert in 1993, he tore the car apart and built a motorcycle from the parts to escape dying from the elements. It worked. That was 25 years ago. Leray gets the MacGyver Award for that year, and every year thereafter, as nobody has done something quite so badass since then, except in movies. This is a true and factual story… As Emile Leray wiped the sweat from his brow in the Sahara heat, he knew the clock was running out. It had been 12 days of labor trying to

Copyright doesn't need 95 years to get the job done.

Scott’s foreword One week ago, E. O. Wilson—the legendary naturalist and conservationist, and man who was universally acknowledged to know more about ants than anyone else in human hist…

Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can

Getting worse and getting better; Jesuits; common prosperity; Rossini's glittering realm; slow-casual chains; Lem's ocean; vowelsongs.

This is not a “fuck SF” post. This is a lament of what has been lost, and a wistfulness for what could have been.

Earlier this week, Mohamed El-Erian was lost for words. As he wrote in the FT: It is hard to put into words how disorderly the Turkish currency markets had become by Monday afternoon. The lira had weakened to beyond TL18 per US dollar, constituting a halving of its value in just two months.

Those who came into adulthood as the USSR collapsed around them 30 years ago recall a time of transition.

“Nothing in the world is more exciting than a moment of sudden discovery or invention, and many more people are capable of experiencing such moments than is sometimes thought.”

I think that lots of advice given is bad - it isn’t practical, it isn’t insightful, and it is often something that is amazingly obvious to the person who is receiving it. Take, for example, these two pieces of advice from Sam Altman (someone who I admire and think can be very insightful - his