Trying to Solve the L.E.D. Quandary.

That quandary, in short: companies are making a good thing—light-emitting-diode bulbs that conserve energy and last for years—but they can’t make money in the long run from products that rarely need replacing.

How to stand on shoulders (of giants, that is).

The giants are eager to hoist you onto their shoulders. Let them. They will give you a view of just how many problems are still out there, waiting for you to go solve them.

Ultimate rain simulator.

HTML: Alternative Text and Images.

(…) most websites are not made up of pure text. We have other types of content that is not so malleable, like images. To make these alternative forms of content more accessible, we need to provide a text alternative of them.

Your Body Text Is Too Small.

Why website body text should be bigger, and ways to optimize it.

TIL Google presents you with a handy tool if you search for “online color picker”.

A race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells dreamed of the future—we just happen to be living in it. Check out some of his greatest predictions.

Relevant: A Nonlinear History of Time Travel.

The results are in!

The state of JavaScript 2016.

Enjoy coke with your blitzkrieg.

High Hitler: how Nazi drug abuse steered the course of history.

German writer Norman Ohler’s astonishing account of methamphetamine addiction in the Third Reich changes what we know about the second world war.

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There’s a Word for Buying Books and Not Reading Them.