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AddAndy Weir is the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian, Artemis, Project Hail Mary, and Cheshire Crossing.
Five Italian divers died in a cave at 55 m. Before anyone delivers a verdict, here are the questions Just Culture demands we ask first — and why their sequence matters.
Mark Zuckerberg built a future that nobody wanted. Tech bosses are repeating his mistake
This 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.
Hey folks! I am working on finishing up some things this week, so I thought I would post the text of the keynote I gave at the Prancing Pony Podcast Moot earlier this December. I've made some minor edits to conform a bit more to the form of a blog post, but this remains very…
The violent response to an attempted murder would have happened regardless of Musk, Lee Hurley writes.
A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.
The H5N1 virus has now reached every continent on the planet. What does it mean for some of the world’s unique species?
Why did Joan Didion love Barry Goldwater but hate Ronald Reagan? Historian Sam Tanenhaus helps make sense of Didion's conservatism.