Stories by Tomte

Stop Passing the Buck on Cybersecurity

‘I cannot allow these people to die’: Saving Jews in World War II

Russia Decides to Go Nuclear

Sand from glacial melt could be Greenland's economic salvation (2019)

Sarah Kidd, the wife of a pirate captain, reinvented herself

Orbiter 2016 Space Flight Simulator

The defusing of the Cuban missile crisis involved delicate diplomacy

Irish director’s all-male Beckett play cancelled as only men could audition

The Notetaking Cold War (2020)

Vital Articles

The Para Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information

A curlicue of hope for cursive writing

Beware of Pet Explanations (2022)

Panther, puma, cougar: All names for the same cat

Deriving the Y Combinator in 7 Easy Steps (2010)

New York City is the perfect scooter market, also the most impossible (2018)

Crow Tries to Fight Eagle, Gets Free Ride Instead (2015)

In defense of punctuation, a texter’s lament

Do Americans have a right to fix their own stuff?

Video Compression for Mere Mortals