A visit to Japan is going to hit you harder when you arrive and harder when you leave. The price of a single-entry visa jumped from around US$19 to $93 this month and a multi-entry one went from $37 ...

Retired after a varied career of programming, writing, and teaching, I live now in British Columbia and have the daily joy of ...

Patterns in Nature by Philip Ball University of Chicago Press 2016, 288 pages, 8.5 x 10 x 1.1 inches ...

For a cleaner, more permanent solution, consider heat-shrink grip tubing. Slide it over the handle, warm it with a heat gun, ...

Stronger Flyer Rights in Europe. Europe has made it clear they are siding with consumers instead of airline execs and just strengthened the continent’s protections for flyers. C ...

AN EXPLORATION OF PROSTITUTION AS FOUND IN THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE. Mary Wept Over the Feet of Jesus by Chester Brown Drawn & ...

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Lately I’ve been asking myself: what might artificial intelligence be good for besides answering questions and writing code? My answer is the latent spaces within AIs themselves will become a new ...

Imagine having access to all the ancient maps of the world, and being able to explore them with AI, including searching on the words etched in the maps, or concepts about the maps – for instance “give ...

Marco Polo app. So much fun to share good morning videos with my granddaughter far away. No intrusive ads, no bs, feels secure—I don’t believe in putting kids’ images out in the inter-world. Ladder ...

Our subscriber base has grown so much since we first started nine years ago, that most of you have missed all our earliest recommendations. The best of these are still valid and useful, so we’re ...