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This book has been out of print for decades and is truly a lesson for anyone joining any organization... or anyone who's worked on any legacy process (image descriptions populated)
For a long time now NGINX has been owned and operated by a corporation called F5 and one of the core developers finally snapped and decided to fork the proje...
The Sulu Hornbill is one of the rarest birds in the world. They are large and almost entirely black except for a white tail, with a thick black bill, a black casque, and black skin around the eye. …
Several palm oil and cacao companies operating in the Peruvian Amazon have systematically contributed to clearing at least 13,000 hectares (32,000 acres) between 2012 and 2021 in the country’s most forest-rich regions of Loreto and Ucayali, shows a n…
To avoid palm oil in margarines, nut butters and cooking oils, see the list below and choose locally produced cooking oils such as olive, sesame or peanut oil and make your own foods instead of buy…
JAKARTA — Deforestation by the palm oil industry in Indonesia increased in 2023 for the second year in a row, bucking a decade of gradual decline, according to an analysis by technology consultancy TheTreeMap.
What shape Is the Sun? Hint: it’s not perfectly round! Knowing precisely how the Sun’s shape deviates from a sphere can teach us about its interior and test theories of gravity.
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is available in limited opportunities to discuss her mission beginning at 8 a.m. EST on Monday, Feb. 26. The interviews will
As part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign, Intuitive Machines is targeting no earlier than 5:49 p.m. EST
The 2023 Annual Highlights of Results from the International Space Station is now available. This new edition contains bibliometric analyses, a list of all
Everything in the universe has its size. But what happens when the size of planets, people or gravity changes? In part two of Size Matters, the thought exper...
After 25 years of international collaboration operating the largest and most technologically advanced laboratory in low Earth orbit, the current decade of
On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross parts of the United States. For millions of people along the path of totality, where the Moon will completely cover the Sun, it may feel like an eerie daytime darkness has descended as temperatures d…
Someone at work ordered a bunch of cheap "slap bracelets" for a silly project and I said "Hey, do you think if I cut this open it'll just be an old tape measure inside?"
A new book from Nathan Schneider argues that attempts to impose democracy on the internet have failed for cultural and technical reasons. But what if we used it as a tool to solve these problems?
Following the success of the Apollo 8 circumlunar mission, NASA believed that it could achieve a Moon landing by the summer of 1969 and meet President John F.
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson is available in limited opportunities to discuss her mission beginning at 8 a.m. EST on Monday, Feb. 26. The interviews will
NASA Deputy Associate Administrator Casey Swails views a demonstration on screen in the Airspace Operations Laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center in
(Orton Geology Museum collection, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA) ----------------------------- This fossil coral is from the Columbus Limestone, a significant carbonate unit in the Devonian of central and northern Ohio.
New observations from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft hint that the Kuiper Belt – the vast, distant outer zone of our solar system populated by hundreds of
For that absolute chef's kiss level of detail, the filenames of the screenshots posted by U.K. authorities on LockBit's dark web leak site read "oh dear.png", "doesnt_look_good.png" and "this_is_really_bad.png."
Matthew Ramsey is keenly aware of the responsibility he shoulders to ensure the agency’s missions to the Moon are safe and successful. As the mission manager
Matthew Ramsey is keenly aware of the responsibility he shoulders to ensure the agency’s missions to the Moon are safe and successful. As the mission manager
Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters, which is an open source version of the classic Star Control 2, has managed to get a Steam release from Pistol Shrimp Games.
The global cost of cars: “We find that, since their invention, cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people and injured at least 2 billion. Currently, 1 in 34 deaths are caused by automobility.” (via @davidzipper) sciencedirect.com/science/arti…
This makes my anti-car sentiment somewhat happy to see. The more I read into cars as a bus and train person, the more I find the "cars are freedom" narrative to be complete bs.
Avi Rappoport (avirr)
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