We have adapted a complete C, C++, and assembly-language software stack, including the open source FreeBSD OS (nearly 800 UNIX programs and more than 200 libraries including OpenSSH, OpenSSL, and bsnmpd) and PostgreSQL database, to employ ubiquitous capability-based pointer and virtual-address protection.
Month: May 2019
Conflict Amber
Burmese amber offers paleontologists an unprecedented glimpse into the Cretaceous. But it comes from a conflict zone.
My leg!
Incumbents for CO2 tax
The fossil fuel industry is pushing lawmakers to implement a tax on CO2 emissions, but environmentalists are skeptical of its newfound support for climate action.
Sahara smuggling
The story of a young man from rural Ghana who bought a pair of secret camera glasses and got himself smuggled across the Sahara, to film crime and exploitation along the way.
APA Meeting Photo-Essay
You know how drug companies pay 6 or 7 figures for 30-second television ads just on the off chance that someone with the relevant condition might be watching? You know how they employ drug reps to flatter, cajole, and even seduce doctors who might prescribe their drug? Well, it turns out that having 15000 psychiatrists in 1 building sparks a drug company feeding frenzy that makes piranhas look sedate by comparison. Every flat surface is covered in drug advertisements. And after the flat surfaces are gone, the curved surfaces, and after the curved surfaces, giant rings hanging from the ceiling.
The Bit Player
a documentary film about Claude Shannon, the underrated “Father of Information Theory”, whose work, more than anyone else’s, laid the foundation for the information age
Internet Dark Forest Theory
netizens are retreating from the public square of the internet, resulting in many private and isolated worlds that don’t communicate with each other
Reading body language
Joe Navarro was a body language expert for the FBI. His job was to catch spies. In this video, he shares some tips. He also busts some myths. For instance, a lot of people think that crossed arms are a blocking behavior. “That’s just nonsense.”
Multipartite viruses
Some viruses can replicate without passing all their genes into any 1 cell.
A classical view in virology assumes that the viral replication cycle occurs within individual cells. But in the case of this “multipartite” virus, it seems that this is not true. The segments infect cells independently and accumulate independently in the plant host cells. It really shows that the virus doesn’t work at a single-cell level, but at a multicellular level.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 