Interesting find that pushed back the Homo Sapien "culture timeline" quite a bit.
The Richat Structure: Nearly perfect concentric circles, nearly 30 miles wide! (yes, I had to go look it up on Google Maps, it's very real)
“25 years of SmallTalk”, from 20 years ago
Found this a good overview of the trends and limitations of computing hardware over the decades.
Fascinating account of someone's "life story of programming languages"; Inspiring, I should write my own some day :-)
An account of the now-forgotten “Buran” fully automated space shuttle, and the “Energia” heavy-lift rocket.
On how “the perfect system, the perfect app” is a mirage
Ernest Shackleton's lost ship is found
“For scientific discovery give me Scott; for speed and efficiency of travel give me Amundsen; but when disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton.” - Sir Raymond Priestly, Antarctic Explorer and Geologist.
- The nightmare of 1914
World War I had no good guys, no winners, just mediocre, small-minded politicians unable to step back from the brink
The Unison language is really coming along well and is still futuristic
Distributed consensus using cellular automata
Looking back at the beginnings of hyper-text, hyper-media, hyper-fiction: “A half-century of hypertext at Brown”
On Emacs as a "lifestyle choice"
A variety of shell-wannabes (this is a wheel that has been re-invented a few times)
Looking at "early" humans in the caves of the Yukon, 240 centuries ago
On why classics matter with Clifton Duncan
The poster child for publicly-released UFO footage might just be ... video glare
H.P. Lovecraft’s favorite films (naturally, they're all from the 1930s or 1920s)
"smartphone addiction" quizzes (though I suppose if you think you need one, you might be addicted already)
Tolkien apparently did a lot of painting, frequently drawing from and supporting, his stories
I always thought of David Allen (of GTD) as some sort of stodgy old guy, but I was blown away by his interview here. He turns out to have had a very interesting background.
Crows are smarter than they seem
Definitely the weirdest insect I’ve seen so far.
There are still lots of fascinating mysteries out there