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HBO documentary revisits Y2K hysteria, including survivalists buying guns, Matt Damon worrying about our nukes, and the Backstreet Boys.  

Physicist Isaac Newton wrote, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”. The field of electronics is no different; we could not have the technology we have today without the contributions of thousands of brilliant people. This series of articles is about them. by Dr David Maddison

World War II brought bigger ships, planes, and weapons. But it also brought a technological push on all fronts, one that paved the way for modern computers.

“For a designer, learning to set metal and wood type is as essential as learning to drive a car.”  Very simple, modernist posters for popular movies. Popular movies rendered as old book covers. Swiss Post honors “concrete in architecture” with concrete-infused stamp. Paper drinking straws are more likely to contain PFAs than plastic ones. Graphene aims to solve the problem of potholes. Mozilla: today’s cars are a “privacy nightmare.” Why aren’t there more roadway roundabouts in the US? Smashing dried pasta in a variety of creative ways. States ranked by how easy it is to nibbl...

New submitter clcto writes Back in 2010, Computer Engineer Barbie was released. Now, with the attention brought to the Frozen themed programming game from Disney and Code.org, unwanted attention has been given to the surprisingly real book "Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer". So much so, that Mat...