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"Mesas. Chasms. Icy poles. River-like features. Mars is both alien and familiar."

"Climate change poses a significant danger to the economy, especially, for those who have the least, says a new report out of Stanford."

2012: Dots and dashes on the rover Curiosity's treads spell out JPL

"We assume that browser caches are near-instantaneous, but data shows that retrieving an object from cache can take hundreds of milliseconds!"

I wonder if it was actually converted to a hotel or not.

Map of the most common surname in each country in Europe, color coded by whether it translates as Smith, Miller, Priest, etc.

It took until 2018 for the cookie to look like a *cookie* instead of a saltine cracker.

"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth…"

Thought-provoking read on the difference between quiet and silence.

"Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by BeOS, Haiku is fast and easy to learn but very powerful."
I didn't realize this was still around!