Stories by bookofjoe

Corvette Bucked a Sports Cars Decline. Can It Thrive in an E.V. Era?

Ambiguous Words

Rational design of efficient defect-based quantum emitters

Prevalence of substandard/falsified/unlicensed/unregistered medicine in Africa

I Almost Died. Surviving Has Made Life Look Different.

The vanilla bean, source of world's favorite scent, is in danger of disappearing

Were There Female Gladiators?

Synchron links brain-computer interface with Apple Vision Pro headset

'Publish or Perish' is now a card game – not just an academic's life

How Did Roses Get Their Thorns?

Incidence of hearing loss following Covid-19 among young adults in South Korea

Italian pasta ripiena evolution: First steps toward a scientific classification

Today's AI models are impressive. Teams of them will be formidable

Game Informer shutting down after 33 years

How to Escape from the Simulation [pdf] (2023)

What makes Mondo Duplantis the world's best pole vaulter

Public Work

Competition between slicing and buckling underlies erratic nature of paper cuts

Twisted carbon nanotubes could achieve better energy storage than Li-on

The Organ Is Still Working. But It's Not in a Body Anymore.