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‘A history of contact’: Princeton geneticists are rewriting the narrative of Neanderthals and other ancient humans

Princeton engineers create new oyster-inspired cement 17X more crack-resistant

Diminuendo Lagrimoso: Tracing the decline of big opera voices (2023) [pdf]

Princeton astrophysicists re-imagine world map (2021)

ROG-O-MATIC: A Belligerent Expert System

Most clean power purchasing strategies do little to cut emissions

A flat map with the least error possible: The Gott-Goldberg-Vanderbei projection

Why We Practice Magic

Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson (1999)

Engineers Use AI To Wrangle Fusion Power For the Grid

Researchers discover an abrupt change in quantum behavior that defies current theories of superconductivity

Neural Spline Fields for Burst Image Fusion and Layer Separation

What It's Like to Be a Bee

Evaluating LLMs Is a Minefield

Is POPL Mathematics or Science?

Terry Tao's generals (2012)

Preventing software piracy with crypto-microprocessors (1980) [pdf]

Theory of interstellar trade (1978) [pdf]

LL(1) Parsing: Write your own context-free grammar and see an LL(1) parser in action! (2022)

What Makes Music Sound Good? (2010) [pdf]

New map of the universe’s cosmic growth supports Einstein’s theory of gravity

Prediction and Entropy of Printed English (1950) [pdf]

Unix: An Oral History

Existence of infinitely many minimal hypersurfaces in closed manifolds

What a tiny marsupial reveals about the origins of flying mammals: Flying squirrels, sugar gliders and bats haven’t had a common ancestor in 160 million years, but they form their wing flaps using some of the same genetic ingredients.

How did Dennis Ritchie produce his PhD thesis? A typographical mystery (2022) [pdf]

What Is Recursion? [pdf]

Solar-powered gel filters enough clean water to meet daily needs

Against predictive optimization

Why you don’t fall through the floor (2018)

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