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Breaking into the Church of Math
On June 11th, 2023 with 52 comments
An Anonymous Coward writes:Technology Review is running an unusual book review...
Our Ancestors Ate a Paleo Diet. It Had Carbs
On October 4th, 2022 with 10 comments
upstart writes:Modern hunter-gatherers offer insight into how our distant...
Amazon Prime's TV Series Based on "The Wheel of Time" Novels
On November 26th, 2021 with 69 comments
Freeman writes:Ars Technica has a series-recap-thing going on for "The Wheel of...
Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case
On August 13th, 2020 with 30 comments
upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Why movie theaters are in trouble...
Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States
On February 29th, 2020 with 33 comments
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Children who read books...
The Surprisingly Complicated Physics of Why Cats Always Land on Their Feet
On December 29th, 2019 with 23 comments
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1337:The surprisingly...
The Not-So-Open "Open Road" -- New Book Blames it on Cars
On June 30th, 2019 with 47 comments
In a new book, Policing the Open Road, How Cars Transformed American Freedom ...
Chapters of Security Engineering, Third Edition, Begin to Arrive Online for Review
On May 21st, 2019 with 4 comments
canopic jug writes:Ross Anderson, a British professor who was recently denied...
Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible?
On November 9th, 2018 with 43 comments
AnonTechie writes:How predictable is evolution? The answer has long been...
Mark Hamill Says the Force Killed Luke
On October 24th, 2018 with 34 comments
Phoenix666 writes:CNet:When a Jedi becomes one with the Force -- as Luke...
Book Review: How to Invent Everything
On October 21st, 2018 with 25 comments
Snotnose writes:Imagine that in the future you can rent time machines just as...
Review: "First Man" -- In US Theaters Starting October 12
On October 12th, 2018 with 13 comments
martyb writes:The movie First Man opens in theaters in the US on Friday,...
Book Review: Rainbows End by Rudy Rucker
On October 11th, 2018 with 5 comments
cafebabe writes:I previously reviewed Rudy Rucker's Ware Tetralogy and...
The Winners of the 2018 Hugo Awards
On August 22nd, 2018 with 133 comments
aristarchus writes:The Hugo awards, being the favorite they are with SN...
Denis Villeneuve is Remaking Dune, and That’s a Good Thing
On July 28th, 2018 with 51 comments
Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:Via the good people at...
TripAdvisor Removed User Reviews Warning of Rapes at Mexican Resorts
On November 6th, 2017 with 12 comments
Grishnakh writes:At various resorts in Mexico, multiple tourists have claimed...
Book Review: Postsingular by Rudy Rucker
On October 16th, 2017 with 3 comments
cafebabe writes:I was initally under the impression that Postsingular and...
Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark
On October 12th, 2017 with 20 comments
cafebabe writes:For anyone who enjoys Things I Won't Work With, this is similar...
Book Review: Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker
On October 11th, 2017 with 12 comments
cafebabe writes:Without checking copyright dates, it was more accurate to...
AI -- Can the Pony Get Smarter?
On October 3rd, 2017 with 19 comments
A recent XKCD https://xkcd.com/1897/ convinced me to read a recent Tech Review...
Review: If You Read One Sci-Fi Series This Year, It Should Be The Broken Earth
On September 18th, 2017 with 70 comments
janrinok writes:Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:Sometimes...
Terry Pratchett's Unpublished Works Securely Deleted
On September 8th, 2017 with 63 comments
darnkitten writes:In a rare moment of sanity in the literary world, the manager...
"Biggest Ransomware Attack in History" Hits Around 100 Countries, Disrupts UK's NHS
On May 13th, 2017 with 88 comments
NSA-created cyber tool spawns global ransomware attackscafebabe writes:From...
Book(s) Review: "Technopoly" and "You Are Not a Gadget"
On May 8th, 2017 with 23 comments
pnkwarhall writes:I read a couple of good books recently, and wanted to share...
Book Review: The Steam Man of the Prairies
On May 1st, 2017 with 8 comments
mcgrew writes:The Steam Man of the Prairies by Edward S. Ellis was the "first...
Accounting Reloaded -- Including Strategic Assets in the Bottom Line
On March 22nd, 2017 with 7 comments
This article...
Controversial Author Charles Murray Flees Middlebury Campus During Violent Protest
On March 8th, 2017 with 222 comments
AthanasiusKircher writes:Charles Murray, controversial author of The Bell...
Site Update 17_2
On February 26th, 2017 with 193 comments
The Mighty Buzzard writes:Okay, I know it's been a long time since we did one...
Square-Mile Street Network Visualization
On February 19th, 2017 with 3 comments
charon writes:Geoff Boeing has written an article about the program he wrote...
Reforming Economics
On February 12th, 2017 with 61 comments
GreatAuntAnesthesia writes:
It is often opined here on Soylent that Economics...
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