Archives

ift.tt/2F7M1TN Last year, Donald Trump said something stupid. Okay, nothing astonishing about that – but this stupid thing did astonish an entire nation, specifically Britain. Apparently, Trump had seen a Fox News report showing people over there protesting about their…

ift.tt/2ZyHdjC Love, poetry, friendship, solitude, and lots of trees. In this annual review, following the annual selections of the year’s loveliest children’s books and overall favorite books, “best” is as usual a composite measure of what I most enjoyed thinking…

ift.tt/2Qw4luW This might sound extreme, but I would posit that the radical linguist and political gadfly Noam Chomsky can provide as much insight into how to raise a willful toddler as any so-called “parenting expert.” The most important intellectual alive today…

ift.tt/2ZvuQVA Quantum entanglement. (Courtesy: iStock/Traffic-Analyzer) We humans are changing. We have become so intertwined with what we have created that we are no longer separate from it. We have outgrown the distinction between the natural and the artificial. We are…

ift.tt/363oZJO In the Year of the Earth Goat, halfway through the third millennium of the ancient sexagenary cycle, the Han Emperor Ai died and was succeeded by his 8-year-old cousin. Far to the west, Amanishakheto ended her reign as Kandake…

ift.tt/374MCl6 This special day got me to thinking about America’s spirit of giving, and I don’t mean this overdone business of Christmas gifts. I mean our true spirit of giving – giving of ourselves. Yes, we are a country of…

ift.tt/34K9F3e Glowing stickers are able to confuse deep learning systems. Deep Learning expert Geoffrey Hinton believes simple adversarial attacks show that Deep Learning has flaws. Deep Learning flaws * The systems needs 10,000+ examples to learn a concept like…

ift.tt/38XNR7l Kenneth Libbrecht is that rare person who, in the middle of winter, gleefully leaves Southern California for a place like Fairbanks, Alaska, where wintertime temperatures rarely rise above freezing. There, he dons a parka and sits in a field…

ift.tt/34xbr7x Every week in Genius Recipes—often with your help!—Food52 Creative Director and lifelong Genius-hunter Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that will change the way you cook. Photo by Julia Gartland. Prop Stylist: Brooke Deonarine. Food Stylist: Kate Buckens. Have you…

ift.tt/2YZAUFC Roll and chill the dough. Remove the dough from the bowl and shape into a smooth rectangle. Lightly dust the rectangle with flour. Place between 2 sheets of parchment paper, then roll into a rough 9×12-inch rectangle about 1/4-inch…

ift.tt/2sJYWIt Posted December 18, 2019 at 05:03 pm Posted December 17, 2019 at 10:54 am Posted December 16, 2019 at 09:53 am Posted December 15, 2019 at 10:49 am Posted December 14, 2019 at 12:19 pm via ift.tt/2r4QNhq…

ift.tt/2rMjTCP Posted December 17, 2019 at 10:54 am Posted December 16, 2019 at 09:53 am Posted December 15, 2019 at 10:49 am Posted December 14, 2019 at 12:19 pm Posted December 13, 2019 at 01:21 pm via ift.tt/2sAP43Q…

ift.tt/2EuoA6I By Dikla Barda, Roman Zaikin and Yaara Shriki Background: Some of the latest news regarding WhatsApp vulnerabilities are relating to a manipulation of the WhatsApp protocol using a tool built by Check Point Research in order to validate WhatsApp…

ift.tt/2EqP3SE A phallic-looking phenomenon took over a Northern California beach last week after a strong storm uncovered thousands of fat innkeeper worms — colloquially known as … via ift.tt/34tIcCF ift.tt/2ALlo82