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by Laura Luebbert and Lior Pachter Background (by LL) Four years ago, during the first year of my PhD at Caltech, I participated in a journal club organized by the lab I was rotating in. …

Or: what I drank on my holidays. In our perversely unseasonal family holiday in Swanage last year, I ticked off four of the town’s seven pubs and had beers from three different local breweries. This …

A new hat puzzle from Gribalko, reminding me of traffic lights. Puzzle. You and six of your mathematician friends each have a hat placed on your head. Each of you can see the hats of …

The Fokker D-II was a fairly mediocre and uninspired successor to the E-III monoplane responsible for the “Fokker Scourge” of 1915-’16. The D-III improved on it, but not enough to make it competitive with the …

I’m not sure there’s been any product I’ve had a more mixed relationship with than the AirPods Max. I returned my first pair…then missed them just enough to buy a second, which I’ve kept. Rarely …

A bizarre glitch occurs in the GameCube version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door whereby talking to any of the many NPCs shown in the above image and then entering Petalburg for the first time …

Cape Hideous (USD$5.99) by Jake Clover Note: I received a copy of this game for free. Explore a fantastical ship about to sail into a dangerous storm in this textless adventure that stokes the imagination. …

The Schoelzel family (in 1949) During the second quarter of the 20th century, Rudolph August Schoelzel and Olivia Henrietta Schoelzel (née Gutenberger) of Colby, Wisconsin, welcomed 21 children — 10 girls and 11 boys. Here …

Things are certainly going to look different in the climate change debate following the U.S. election. But progress on reducing emissions will continue. The post With Trump in the White House, expect the states to …

I carried out a preliminary excursion a few days in advance of Terminalia. I wanted to check if there was any safe and legal route I could take from the Beech Woods to Fulbourn Road. …

I have made an exploratory prototype of a new game called Pieces for New York Times Games.

RECORD TURNOVER 80s HITS #227 More new musical discoveries from Scotland continue to be revealed, as the new label Seated Records unearths the history of 22 Beaches. The Stirling post-punk group only released a handful …

Well, my friends. That election certainly didn’t go the way we wanted, did it. If you’re anything like me, you’ve gone through a range of emotions these last four days. I was numb for two …

It’s somewhere between 3 and 4 pm. He slips out into the narrow hall that connects his office and the bathroom to the main area of our apartment. When we moved in together, one room …