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The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards

MIT engineers advance toward a fault-tolerant quantum computer

Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten

The Tao of Programming

New electronic “skin” could enable lightweight night-vision glasses: « MIT engineers developed ultrathin electronic films that sense heat and other signals, and could reduce the bulk of conventional goggles and scopes

How Nintendo bled Atari games to death

Soft Vine-Like Robot Helps Rescuers Find Survivors In Disaster Zones

Astronomers discover a planet that’s rapidly disintegrating, producing a comet-like tail: « The small and rocky lava world sheds an amount of material equivalent to the mass of Mount Everest every 30.5 hours

Read the Obits

MIT engineers print synthetic "metamaterials" that are both strong and stretchy

"Periodic table of machine learning" could fuel AI discovery

Engineered bacteria emit signals that can be spotted from a distance: « These bacteria, which could be designed to detect pollution or nutrients, could act as sensors to help farmers monitor their crops

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Molecules that fight infection also act on the brain

How to Structure a B2B Marketplace Venture

Emily Dickinson's Playful Letterlocking

A new way to make graphs more accessible to blind and low-vision readers

Looking under the hood at the brain's language system

MIT 6.5950 Secure Hardware Design – An open-source course on hardware attacks

When people repeatedly read sentences, they get faster and more accurate, showing the brain improves with practice—not just boredom

Mathematicians uncover the logic behind how people walk in crowds

Making math fun by prepping for friendly competition (2022)

Artificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots: « MIT engineers developed a way to grow artificial tissues that look and act like their natural counterparts

High-performance computing, with much less code

MIT engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons for cell therapy

Masters of None: The Flawed Logic of One-Size-Fits-All Education

Study: The ozone hole is healing, thanks to global reduction of CFCs

Percolation Theory [pdf]

City simulator I made in Scratch

Smart researchers pioneer nanosensor for real-time iron detection in plants

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