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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes by Daniel Everett The story of Everett's life among the Pirahã people in the Amazon. Everything you thought you knew about humans is wrong.

"If the temperature of your soldering iron is too high, metal traces on the PCB could separate from the board and loose connectivity." How can intelligent people possibly not know …

No it isn't. There's no API and the IOS app is iPhone native, runs in emulation on the iPad. No mapping capability and scarce development and support of third-party solutions due t…

Yes, of course, but why isn't the first chord in the progression labeled in the diagram? All the others are. There's just a big wall labeled "Start". Things like this make me feel …

TRUTH! TRUTH! Finally someone speaks the truth. "Linux has proven to be Frankenstein OS assembled from a disparate array of barely functioning parts with horrible reliability and l…

No, you are not thinking about it the wrong way. Neither Hawking nor Musk is an expert in AI; their only contribution to the discussion is their fame. Curbing research into AI at t…

Excellent article. Not meant to be rigorous; only to give the broad stokes of a perspective that many have failed to grasp. Ever since I worked with embryos undergoing apoptosis un…

Yes, that was one of the arguments against the starvation-increased-lifespan evidence... in the 1970s. I relied upon it myself. Then, better evidence emerged to contradict that not…

To the sycophants who ejaculated their "Isn't science amazing?" jizz all over this and every other website (without troubling themselves to read the paper) when the news was first …