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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
December 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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A fungus called Cladosporium sphaerospermum thrives at Chernobyl:
“Some scientists think its dark pigment—melanin—may allow it to harness ionizing radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. This proposed mechanism is even referred to as radiosynthesis.”
“Some scientists think its dark pigment—melanin—may allow it to harness ionizing radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. This proposed mechanism is even referred to as radiosynthesis.”
Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability
The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly 40 years ago, other forms of life have not only move...
www.sciencealert.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
A fungus called Cladosporium sphaerospermum thrives at Chernobyl:
“Some scientists think its dark pigment—melanin—may allow it to harness ionizing radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. This proposed mechanism is even referred to as radiosynthesis.”
“Some scientists think its dark pigment—melanin—may allow it to harness ionizing radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. This proposed mechanism is even referred to as radiosynthesis.”
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I’m often asked for freelance UI/UX designer recommendations, but my list is out of date — most folks I used to refer are now full-time or doing other work.
Time to fix that.
If you’re an independent UI/UX designer doing hands-on client work, drop your website/portfolio! DM/email fine too.
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Time to fix that.
If you’re an independent UI/UX designer doing hands-on client work, drop your website/portfolio! DM/email fine too.
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November 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I’m often asked for freelance UI/UX designer recommendations, but my list is out of date — most folks I used to refer are now full-time or doing other work.
Time to fix that.
If you’re an independent UI/UX designer doing hands-on client work, drop your website/portfolio! DM/email fine too.
[1/2]
Time to fix that.
If you’re an independent UI/UX designer doing hands-on client work, drop your website/portfolio! DM/email fine too.
[1/2]
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🔥 New blog post!
Covering, among other things:
- Why making simple things easy and complex things possible is not enough
- How to maximize your UI’s signal-to-noise ratio
- Why you can’t uncover friction through user feedback
- How to prioritize user needs
lea.verou.me/blog/2025/us...
Covering, among other things:
- Why making simple things easy and complex things possible is not enough
- How to maximize your UI’s signal-to-noise ratio
- Why you can’t uncover friction through user feedback
- How to prioritize user needs
lea.verou.me/blog/2025/us...
In the economy of user effort, be a bargain, not a scam • Lea Verou
User effort is a currency. To create a product users love, design the tradeoffs of use case complexity to user effort with the same care you design your pricing scheme.
lea.verou.me
September 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🔥 New blog post!
Covering, among other things:
- Why making simple things easy and complex things possible is not enough
- How to maximize your UI’s signal-to-noise ratio
- Why you can’t uncover friction through user feedback
- How to prioritize user needs
lea.verou.me/blog/2025/us...
Covering, among other things:
- Why making simple things easy and complex things possible is not enough
- How to maximize your UI’s signal-to-noise ratio
- Why you can’t uncover friction through user feedback
- How to prioritize user needs
lea.verou.me/blog/2025/us...
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I wrote about Epstein’s suicide and how the disbelief about it shows a lack of familiarity with how inhuman America’s prison’s are. It remains one of the things that made people maddest (not saying jail is bad, disbelieving he was murdered).
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Thirty-Two Short Stories About Death in Prison
These stories don’t mention Jeffrey Epstein, but they are about him.
www.theatlantic.com
July 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I wrote about Epstein’s suicide and how the disbelief about it shows a lack of familiarity with how inhuman America’s prison’s are. It remains one of the things that made people maddest (not saying jail is bad, disbelieving he was murdered).
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The thing is, in my xp, in software context, with the doublechecking included, it does not save me a lot of time and always leaves me with the feeling that I missed a subtle bug somewhere. Like code from a junior engineer who you've stopped trusting.
Of course definitions of whether the technology works or not depends on which context you expect it to work.
Treating it as a font of all wisdom that it is not rather than the highly effective editorial assistant that you still need to doublecheck that it is has become a lot of the problem.
Treating it as a font of all wisdom that it is not rather than the highly effective editorial assistant that you still need to doublecheck that it is has become a lot of the problem.
July 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The thing is, in my xp, in software context, with the doublechecking included, it does not save me a lot of time and always leaves me with the feeling that I missed a subtle bug somewhere. Like code from a junior engineer who you've stopped trusting.