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After the Concorde, a long road back to supersonic air travel
Enlarge / NASA's and Lockheed Martin's X-59 experimental supersonic jet is unveiled during a ceremony in...
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Plastics Contain Thousands More Chemicals Than Thought, and Most Are Unregulated
Humans produce about 400 million metric tons of plastic waste each year. Some chemicals in plastics...
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Online Gambling Is Changing Sports for the Worse
For the past twenty or so years, my friend Chad and I have gone to Las...
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Elon Musk Is Profiting Off Government Surveillance
Ten years ago, the internet platform X, then known as Twitter, filed a lawsuit against the...
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SBCL: The Assembly Code Breadboard
EDIT: Lutz Euler points out that the NEXT sequence (used to) encode an effective address with...
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School absences have ‘exploded’ almost everywhere
In Anchorage, affluent families set off on ski trips and other lengthy vacations, with the assumption...
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Song lyrics getting simpler, more repetitive, angry and self-obsessed – study
You’re not just getting older. Song lyrics really are becoming simpler and more repetitive, according to...
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Chocolate and the Hawaiian Dream Comes True
By Liz Macklin Sign up for our monthly newsletter! After a January storm pummeled lowlands with...