Possible Traces of Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA Found on ‘Holy Child’ Drawing
TL;DR Researchers with the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project report extracting small amounts of DNA from the red‑chalk drawing 'Holy…
De-bog Yourself: A Practical Catalog of How People Get Stuck
TL;DR Adam Mastroianni's essay frames being 'stuck' as standing in a bog and catalogs recurring psychological patterns that keep people…
LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021 PDF): Notes on the CoffeeStains Package
TL;DR A PDF titled "LaTeX Coffee Stains (2021)" is available at a CTAN URL, but the source excerpt says the…
A to Z: A road‑trip inspired word game built from a childhood memory
TL;DR A to Z is a browser word puzzle that asks players to find 15 words inside a given category…
Finnish team develops low‑temperature CO₂‑capture liquid for DAC scale‑up
TL;DR Researchers at the University of Helsinki report a liquid compound of TBN and benzyl alcohol that captures CO₂ from…
Claude Code Emergent Behavior — What Happens When Skills Combine
TL;DR A developer experimenting with a macOS tiling window manager used Claude to combine multiple AI skills and diagnose a…
Election Deniers Claim Venezuela Operation Proves 2020 Vote Was Stolen
TL;DR Following reports of the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, election-denial networks and MAGA-aligned influencers have promoted the idea…
Implementing WebDAV/CalDAV: frustrations, RFC drift and reverse engineering
TL;DR A small team building a WebDAV/CalDAV client and server for Homechart found the published specs hard to follow and…
Bought a new iPad? Essential steps to set it up with iPadOS 26
TL;DR iPadOS 26 introduces optional Mac-like windowing and deeper customization across Files, Control Center, home and lock screens. Before installing…