The CA/Browser Forum has voted to significantly reduce the lifespan of SSL/TLS certificates over the next 4 years, with a final lifespan of just 47 days starting in 2029.
Do you like saying integers aloud? We're still going with our collaborative online project to get people to say digits of the most recently discovered Mersenne prime, in the hope we can say all 41 million digits before someone discovers a new largest prime! Details at https://saytheprime.com
“When numbers have meaning it makes it a lot easier for me” vs “I over think the given information and confuse myself”: do engineering students prefer maths questions in context? https://aperiodical.com/2025/04/when-numbers-have-meaning-it-makes-it-a-lot-easier-for-me-vs-i-over-think-the-given-information-and-confuse-myself-do-engineering-students-prefer-maths-questions-in-context/
I got to this book because I read the @humantransit blog and writeup here: https://web.archive.org/web/20130607154708/https://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2013/05/eerie-truths-and-hard-lessons-1970s-ecotopia/5636/
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