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Successful innovation doesn’t begin with a brainstorming session—it starts with the customer. So in an age of unlimited data, why do more than 50% of new products fail to meet... - Selection from Jobs to Be Done [Book]

There are a wide variety of theoretical studies that call our standard model of cosmology into question. Here's what they really mean.

At the interface of water and air, light can, in certain conditions, bring about evaporation without the need for heat, according to an MIT study.

A new breed of companies are in a race to extract enormous wealth from the solar system – but who will benefit?

In Japanese folklore, tsukumogami (付喪神 or つくも神,[note 1][1] lit. "tool kami") are tools that have acquired a kami or spirit.[2] According to an annotated version of The Tales of Ise titled Ise Monogatari Shō, there is a theory originally from the Onmyōki (陰陽記) that foxes and tanuki, among other beings, that have lived for at least a hundred years and changed forms are considered tsukumogami.[3] In modern times, the term can also be written 九十九神 (literally ninety-nine kami), to emphasize the agedness.[4]

Ernest P. Duckweather, a general-store clerk, invents an interplanetary television set, thus developing a friendship with a puppet named Johnny Jupiter.

Spear of the god Odin

Representative List, Urgent Safeguarding List, and Register of Good Safeguarding Practices

Irish-born British figurative painter (1909–1992)

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture. It is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar with a full moon at night, corresponding to mid-September to early October of the Gregorian calendar. On this day, the Chinese believe that the moon is at its brightest and fullest size, coinciding with harvest time in the middle of autumn.

Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival, is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. Marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring, this festival takes place from Chinese New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival, held on the 15th day of the year. The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February.

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Obys’ Design Books — a personal selection of titles that show design in ways the screen never could. These books inspire, educate, and support the creators who dedicate themselves to design.

The revolutionary ideas that empowered the Web. A simpler approach to building applications on the Web and beyond with htmx and Hyperview. Enhancing web applications without using SPA frameworks.

Learn how to create and maintain digital design systems, allowing your team to roll out higher quality, more consistent UIs faster than ever before.

The race to superhuman AI risks extinction, but it's not too late to change course.

2005 non-fiction work by Barry Schwartz

This book traces the hidden infrastructure that defines our era: from chips and kernels to satellites and treaties. Through real-world incidents like Heartbleed, Spectre, and MOVEit, it shows how open source, formal methods, and digital diplomacy are rewriting the rules of global security. It’s a guide to understanding the systems that quietly govern the world.