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All that glitters is not hovery.

adults forget how difficult that task was.

It may not look it, but all the glass on Earth is flowing downwards under the relentless drag of gravity. Remove a pane of really old glass from the window of a European cathedral and it will be notic...

This process of professionalising the obvious fosters a sense of mystery around science, and health advice, which is unnecessary and destructive. More than anything, more than the unnecessary ownershi...

and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being honest would bring

I had no way of anticipating the adjustments I would have to make and the suffering I would have to endure in the months and years ahead.

Many programmers would prefer to mock in their client library specs, but doing so could result in the service and client passing all specs with hidden failures.

A Guardian investigation concluded that between 10,000 and 20,000 people died as an 'indirect' result of the US bombing, that is, through hunger, cold and disease as people were forced to flee the mas...