Making the Electron Microscope(asimov.press)

74 points by mailyk 1 year ago | 9 comments

SpaceX launches Starship megarocket on 11th test flight(cnn.com)

42 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 31 comments

The $1M shot that changed sports contests(espn.com)

226 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 111 comments

The American sports plutocracy(derekthompson.org)

54 points by momentmaker 2 months ago | 39 comments

A library of words: Discovering Roget's Thesaurus (2023)(austinkleon.substack.com)

35 points by NaOH 1 year ago | 7 comments

James Webb Space Telescope captures high-resolution image of Uranus(webbtelescope.org)

619 points by gmays 2 years ago | 266 comments

NASA Webb Space Telescope news release from December 2023 presenting a new infrared image of Uranus showing its rings and moons.

Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For(reclaimthenet.org)

480 points by bilsbie 3 months ago | 210 comments

Reclaim The Net article reporting that Sony is removing 551 StudioCanal movies that PlayStation owners had purchased, raising digital ownership concerns.

Inside Polymarket's paid quote-retweet esports program(readergrev.com)

80 points by paimapi 10 days ago | 53 comments

A Readergrev investigation into Polymarket's program paying esports accounts to quote-retweet its posts while making the promotion appear organic.

It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership(popcar.bearblog.dev)

594 points by popcar2 3 months ago | 452 comments

A blog post arguing that the debate over physical versus digital games is really about ownership, prompted by PlayStation ending disc production for new games.

New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable(gamehistory.org)

430 points by coldpie 3 years ago | 390 comments

Video Game History Foundation article on a study finding 87% of classic video games are commercially unavailable today.

A New Experiment Meta-Strategy(chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

26 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 1 comments

A Substack post by an amateur physicist describing a new strategy for doing home experiments after reorganizing a messy lab to fit limited free evenings.

What was a Token Ring network?(dfarq.homeip.net)

103 points by ibobev 10 days ago | 79 comments

Blog post from The Silicon Underground explaining the history of IBM's Token Ring networking technology and its competition with Ethernet in the 1980s and 1990s.