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Evidence Builds That an Early Mutation Made the Pandemic Harder to Stop

Scientists were initially skeptical that a mutation made the coronavirus more contagious. But new research has changed many of their minds.

From Culinary Dud To Stud: How Dutch Plant Breeders Built Our Brussels Sprouts Boom

Brussels sprouts used to be scorned. Now they're trendy. And one reason for their renaissance sits tucked away in a basement storage room in the Netherlands.

A Visual Guide to Regular Expression

A mental model of how various components of a regular expression work from the bottom-up.

Fast Search Using PostgreSQL Trigram Text Indexes

In this article we'll look at how these indexes work and how they can be used to speed up queries using LIKE conditions.

The Vintage Beauty Of Soviet Control Rooms

Just for the pleasure, a selection of vintage control rooms dating back to the Soviet era! A beautiful collection of control rooms filled with large buttons and analog dials, long before the democratization of computers and screens.

Why it's good for users that HTML, CSS and JS are separate languages

The separation between structure, style and interactivity goes all the way back to the web’s first proposal.

Yer Metal Is Olde: Judas Priest - Painkiller

Judas Priest are perhaps best known for metal anthems like “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’” and “Living After Midnight,” but when one wants to play some unbridled face-melting metal, Painkiller is the album to turn to.

Booting from a vinyl record

Most PCs tend to boot from a primary media storage, be it a hard disk drive, or a solid-state drive, perhaps from a network, or – if all else fails – the USB stick or the boot DVD comes to the rescue… Fun, eh? Boring! Why don’t we try to boot from a record player for a change?

Building Your Color Palette

Once you actually start using your colors in your designs, it's almost inevitable that you'll want to tweak the saturation on a shade, or make a couple of shades lighter or darker. Trust your eyes, not the numbers.

MeFi: A 32-year-old man marrying a barely 20-year-old woman isn't a fairy-tale

This season of The Crown highlights how very young Diana was during all of this — and it’s uncomfortable to look at that through a modern lens

Opinion | I Traced My Covid-19 Bubble and It’s Enormous

And if you have kids, yours probably is, too.

How do I get Visual Studio Code to display italic fonts in formatted code?

Fun with Operator Mono. Yes, I’m that cool.

Contact Form Processing Made Easy with Netlify

Handling contact forms shouldn’t be a hassle, even on static websites! This tutorial shows how Netlify Forms makes it easy to handle them.

Kirbysites

Inspiration doesn't stop at the frontend. Kirbysites invites you to have a look behind the scenes of beautiful websites built with the Kirby CMS.

Your Computer Isn't Yours

“This means that Apple knows when you’re at home. When you’re at work. What apps you open there, and how often. They know when you open Premiere over at a friend’s house on their Wi-Fi, and they know when you open Tor Browser in a hotel on a trip to another city.”

Lightyear One maakt zich op om de automarkt te ontwrichten

Nog één jaar te gaan en dan komt de Nederlandse zonneauto op de markt. Dat betekent: laden terwijl je rijdt.

The Crown: Gillian Anderson on Playing Margaret Thatcher

Anderson opens up about joining The Crown as Britain’s first female prime minister, and going toe-to-toe with Olivia Colman’s Queen Elizabeth.

Why Obama Fears for Our Democracy

In an exclusive interview, the former president identifies the greatest threats to the American experiment, explains why he’s still hopeful, and opens up about his new book.

“He’s a symptom as much as an accelerant. But if we were going to have a right-wing populist in this country, I would have expected somebody a little more appealing.”

“The Queen’s Gambit” Is the Most Satisfying Show on Television

The new miniseries, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, finds an unlikely synergy between the heady interiority of chess and the sensual realm of style.

MeFi: 7.8 billion people living in the ruin of the old world

What must we do to rebuild? Metafilter’s favourite German bank has some thoughts about what global society might take to rebuild ‘democratic capitalism’ in the wake of Covid-19. For starters, a 5% tax on anyone who enjoys the privilege of working from home.

Moving beyond remote: Workplace transformation in the wake of Covid-19

Slack's newest global data set reveals what's working—and what's not—in this historic turn toward remote work

The Angel Makers of Nagyrév and the truth around murderous women of myth

What it lacked, however, was a resident doctor. For those who were sick or in desperate need of medical advice, their options were limited. That changed in 1911 when a woman named Zsuzsanna Fazekas came to town.

Virgin Hyperloop Has Invented The World's Crappiest High-Speed Rail

Shocking news! In an incredible breakthrough for American mass-transit engineering, the transportation technology company Virgin Hyperloop this past weekend successfully moved two people 500 meters across the barren Las Vegas desert at a top speed of just over 100 mph […]

Opinion | The Long Shadow of the Reagan Years

The upheavals of our current era did not begin with Donald Trump, nor will they end now that he has been defeated.

For the life of me I have never been able to understand how so many Republicans talk about their patriotism and their love of the flag and at the same time despise the very government the Constitution created.

The Distinguished Medieval Penis Investigators

In fourteenth-century England, one of the only ways a woman could get a divorce was if her husband was impotent. But first, she had to prove it in court.

Inside Heavy Metal's Battle Against White Supremacy

How Metal Music Became Anti-Fascist in 2020