Stories by Tomte

Orphans Helped Distribute the Smallpox Vaccine

Can a former model predict your future? A million Turkish users say yes (2020)

How did early mountaineers prove they did climb a specific mountain?

Microsoft backtracks on Windows 11’s controversial default browser changes

UTC with Smoothed Leap Seconds (UTC-SLS) (2011)

How to Think about Space-Based Missile Defense (2018)

Necking Shaped the Giraffe (2016)

Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 microprocessor (2016)

Thoughts on Cameras in the Age of Excellent Cell Phone Photos (2020)

Truth in Advertising

The Carbon Footprint Sham

Quake 1 gets its first major co-op content update in 25 years

The Sixth Taste

A Beginner’s Guide to the True Order of SQL Operations (2016)

BuzzFeed is voting to go public, but much of its staff just walked out

GNU Parallel 2018

Microsoft’s new Office UI is now rolling out to everyone

A man who made Germans admit complicity in the Holocaust

Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory

Museum rivalry ‘could make Dutch Vermeer show last of its kind’