Collaborate Disseminate
Our lives in the 21st century are in part governed by a series of systems which we rarely encounter directly but which can have a great impact upon our lives. The oil futures market, for example, for which [Igor Nikolic] has created a real-time visualisation in the form of a …read more
The 50th anniversary of “Earthrise” is the perfect opportunity to think about sending Earth’s life to the stars. Continue reading The Plan to Seed Life on Alien Planets
The 50th anniversary of “Earthrise” is the perfect opportunity to think about sending Earth’s life to the stars. Continue reading The Plan to Seed Life on Alien Planets
The ability to execute code in parallel is crucial in a wide variety of scenarios. Concurrent programming is a key asset for web servers, producer/consumer models, batch number-crunching and pretty much any time an application is bottlenecked by a resource.
It’s sadly the case that writing quality concurrent code can be a real headache, but this article aims to demonstrate how easy it is to get started writing threaded programs in Python. Due to the large number of modules available in the standard library which are there to help out with this kind of thing, it’s often the case that …read more
Continue reading Thread Carefully: An Introduction To Concurrent Python
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are charting humanity’s future, and there’s little the rest of us can do to influence them. Continue reading Tech Billionaires Are Building Their Utopias Without Asking Us
Her novels and stories spoke with the breath of her politics, a graceful and humanist blend of lyrical environmentalism, feminism, and anticapitalism. Continue reading We Lost Ursula K. Le Guin When We Needed Her Most
A new map shows that more communities than ever are building their own broadband networks to end big telecom’s monopoly. Continue reading More Than 750 American Communities Have Built Their Own Internet Networks
We met with the people repairing the games fueling America’s pinball resurgence. Continue reading The Last Pinball Doctors
It’s OK to be excited about Bitcoin and other digital currencies, according to Brian Armstrong, CEO of digital currency exchange Coinbase… just maybe not that excited. Continue reading Coinbase: don’t expect to trade your cryptocurrency at busy times
The EmDrive propulsion system might be able to take us to the stars, but first it must be reconciled with the laws of physics. Continue reading Theoretical Physicists Are Getting Closer to Explaining How NASA’s ‘Impossible’ EmDrive Works