Codex Forster III folio 72r. Image: V&A Museum, London Never assume that Leonardo Da Vinci’s doodles are meaningless. That, at least, is the takeaway of a new study out of the University of Cambridge, which shows that a page of…
It’s been four decades since the Viking 1 lander touched down on Martian soil, the first lasting human presence on the surface of the Red Planet. It beamed its unprecedented data back to NASA, where it was stored on the…
It’s that wonderful time of year again. The Microsoft MSDN blog is offering another hefty collection of useful, totally free eBooks for you to download. Eric Ligman, Director of Sales Excellence at Microsoft, has given away tons of eBooks in…
After a long day of working, especially at the desk, you might have some extreme lower back pain, with no way to relieve it. Well, I got news for you! What do you need? There is a way you can…
Richard Devine’s Vimeo account is something special. It’s certainly partly theater – there’s something entirely alien about seeing a nest of gear, tangled in cables and blinking, as if modules have achieved sentience and starting interconnecting themselves. But behind that…
Why aren’t we happy, even when we have a million social activities, a great job, and lots of nice stuff? We work hard all week and look forward to the weekend, but then work just as hard at having fun (in…
Most people think you need to leave the country in order to see all the beautiful places in life. However, that couldn’t be more untrue. You don’t need a passport to see all the things that mother nature has to…
Palouse wheat fields (Image: Charles Knowles) Drought is spreading across farmland worldwide—and it’s only going to get more intense. New research offers a clue on how we might be able to continue to grow the staples we’re used to but…
That little blue checkmark next to a Twitter handle has long been held in high esteem. Originally reserved for the likes of Tony Hawk, San Francisco 311 and NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, the checkmark, which denotes a verified account, has become…
Don’t like clicks or beeps or other sounds when using a metronome? Try some haptic feedback instead, with this free utility. First, you’ll need an Apple trackpad that supports haptic feedback. Pretty soon, I suspect that will be all the…
