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The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

The big picture: Java stands as one of the enduring pillars of the software world. The programming language was released by Sun Microsystems on May 23, 1995, and so far has weathered the shifting ...

Now that we’re getting into more complex data structures, having more complex operations, it’s helpful to have a tool for visualization. Here’s a tool developed by David Galles, formerly of University ...

Sweet pine o’ mine! It’s time to pick a tree. (Fifty of them, in fact.) Try to find all the sentient Tannenbaums. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript ...

I never thought much about pipe cleaners or as some call ‘em straw cleaners. They are weird little things, aren’t they? Cleaning straws and other small pipes. But they can be so much more and come in ...

JOSHUA TREE, Calif. — It’s 4 p.m. in Joshua Tree National Park and the air temperature is hovering around 99 degrees — relatively mild for an August afternoon. But at ground level, the sand along the ...

Enzo Cilenti and Liev Schreiber in Across the River and Into the Trees. Photo: Level 33 Entertainment/Everett Collection In Across the River and Into the Trees, Liev Schreiber, a very fine actor whom ...