When life gives you demons…

A new information engine is pushing the boundaries of thermodynamics.

A "Maxwell's demon" device achieved almost perfect efficiency, supporting the possibility of a lossless engine.

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Burschenschaft Hysteria marschierte durch Wien.

Mit Parolen wie "Auf zum goldenen Matriarchat!" zogen die 700 Teilnehmerinnen zum Heldenplatz.

Relevant: Gendergerechte Sprache international. (The comment section alone justifies the mere existence of Hysteria.)

Ludbreg's ‘Center of the World’.

Colorful concentric circles honor a small Croatian town's supposed spot at the nucleus of it all.

Free Your Data is an initiative and a movement to enlighten, inform and challenge you with the truth behind what happens to your data. Together we will make our voices heard, initiate change and create a lasting impact on the way our data is treated.

Secrecy Is Dead. Here's What Happens Next.

Texts and emails leave a trail, making it easier to document incidents and interactions. Secrets used to be the purview of people. Now they are owned by the platforms and databases into which we deposit them—and those have proven easy to penetrate.

Will There Ever Be an Anglerfish Emoji?

Two researchers are hoping to diversify our chief communicative ecosystem.

Microchimerism: how pregnancy changes the mother’s very DNA.

(…) another body of research has found that foetal cells can protect the mother. They appear to congregate at wound sites, including Caesarean incisions, to speed up healing. They participate in angiogenesis, the creation of new blood vessels. A recent survey of the immunological implications of microchimerism in Nature Reviews by researchers at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital asserts that these cells ‘are not accidental “souvenirs” of pregnancy, but are purposefully retained within mothers and their offspring to promote genetic fitness by improving the outcome of future pregnancies’.

Ethereum Alarm Clock Beta Release.

The Chronologic team has been working on rebuilding the core infrastructure of the Ethereum Alarm Clock smart contracts in order to once again allow users of Ethereum to schedule transaction calls in the future.

Kunst im Auftrag der CIA: Wie steht es um das Freiheitsversprechen der westlichen Demokratien?

Nuclear deterrence is more ideology than theory.

Nuclear deterrence continues to dominate international relations. Yet there is no proof it ever worked, nor that it ever will.