Stories by a_w

Eating human brains helped Papua New Guinea tribe resist mad cow-like disease

Speeding Up PostgreSQL with Partial Indexes (2014)

Maria Leijerstam: The woman who wants to cycle the Atlantic Ocean

How Emotion Helped Grow Our Startup [Canva] to 2.8M Users in 20 Months

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a Roomba leaking pix of your home

Octopus skin contains a light-sensitive pigment found in eyes

Wrong notes and syntax errors: The joy of improv in music and code

The number glitch that can lead to catastrophe

Ruby implementation of some famous graph algorithms

Satellites: a glimpse inside a secret world

Ken Collier on Agile Analytics

The Gobi March ultra: a 155-mile, seven-day antidote to modern life

My Day: Robot scientist Tomotaka Takahashi

Brazil's other passion: Malba Tahan and the man who counted

Facebook's rule changes and profit chasing undermine its users

Google and Facebook's Fight for the Future of Tech

Amazon and the Future of the Superhero

Super-rats and cephalopods: the species that could conquer mankind

Berlin 'borrowing shop' promotes the benefits of sharing

'I was bullied and beaten every day. Programming saved my life'

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