Barcode Writer in Pure Postscript (BWIPP) generates all barcode formats entirely within PostScript so that the process of converting the input data into the printed output can be performed by the ...

Defense mechanisms are unconscious strategies whereby people protect themselves from anxious thoughts or feelings. Defense mechanisms aren’t inherently bad—they can allow people to navigate painful ...

The growth of passive investing has stimulated academic and policy interest in how it affects asset prices and the real economy. Hao Jiang, Dimitri Vayanos, and Lu Zheng, authors of the March 2025 ...

My brilliant and wonderful PhD student Adrián Doña Mateo and I have just arXived a new paper: Adrián Doña Mateo and Tom Leinster. Magnitude homology equivalence of Euclidean sets. arXiv:2406.11722, ...

Lent is a 46-day period (40 regular days plus six Sundays) in the Christian liturgical calendar meant to commemorate Jesus’s 40-day fast in the wilderness. It spans from Ash Wednesday until Easter ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the orchestrators of the terrorist attack at Moscow’s Crocus City Hall aimed to “destroy the unity” of Russians, reports Interfax. Putin made the remarks ...

Letter writing has been an art form for many centuries. From "x" and "o" meaning "hugs and kisses," respectively, to the intricacies of deciding what salutation to use in a letter, it may take some ...

In the early 1980s, my job in the graphics department at a newspaper meant spending a large part of my day typing words and control codes into a computer terminal to set type I’d use for headlines on ...

How did Google become the internet’s censor and master manipulator, blocking access to millions of websites? Google: The New Censorship Google, Inc., isn't just the world's biggest purveyor of ...

I saw Justice Scalia speak a number of times, when I was profiling him for the magazine, in 2004 and 2005, and the question he hated most was how he would have ruled on Brown v. Board of Education.

The deaths, over the weekend, of Peter O’Toole and Joan Fontaine reminded us, once again, what a strange principality movie stardom is. Think of it as a kind of Monaco: few are born there, but many ...

Page Description Language (PDL) interpreters are large complex native code solutions. Adobe Reader is also a PDL viewer and as evident by the number of security updates seen over the years, ...