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AddThis blog post takes us back to 2010, retracing and incident where a statistical anomaly led to the discovery of a subtle flaw in the way we were using a security-critical library.
Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion's conservatism.
By Lee Vinsel
I'm reposting this essay I wrote in 2021 because the online blogging platform Medium has apparently changed its policies and people are having trouble accessing the original. Hopefully, I'll find a better, more durable solution soon. I'm reposting it unaltered, even though I would unsurprisingly do some
Cosmic radiation comes from space. Only a small amount reaches the Earth's surface, but exposure is greater for people flying at high altitudes.
Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake
A decades-old rule about human friendship turns out to be built on such shaky math that it could just as easily be 2 or 520.
The violent response to an attempted murder would have happened regardless of Musk, Lee Hurley writes.
The H5N1 virus has now reached every continent on the planet. What does it mean for some of the world’s unique species?