Michael Byrne
michael.byrne@vice.comNew Study Finds That Anti-Vaxxers Are Way Into ‘Purity’ and ‘Liberty’
A look at the moral foundations of an anti-science movement.
To Solve the Diversity Drought in Software Engineering, Look to Community Colleges
It’s a solution hiding in plain sight.
New Study Finds That Most Redditors Don’t Actually Read the Articles They Vote On
And the world makes a little more sense.
Researchers Created the First Hybrid Link for a Quantum Internet
Figuring out how to route information between two different types of quantum nodes has been a significant technical barrier to the quantum net.
Magnetic Brain Stimulation Can Be Used to Alter How You Perceive Music
Basically, it’s possible to make people feel music more by exciting their brains with magnets.
Amazon Unveils New ‘Secret Region’ Cloud for Spies
AWS couldn’t be worse at keeping secrets than the US government, right?
Someone Built a Working Four-Bit Computer Out of Cardboard and Marbles
You don't need electricity to implement binary operations, though it certainly helps.
Following a Google Map to Nowhere Is Easy. Getting Out Is Hard
The connected map, the GPS dot, is a different sense of safety than the static map.
Wikipedia’s Science Articles Are Elitist
Maybe Wikipedia readers shouldn’t need science degrees to digest articles about basic topics. Just an idea.
Physicists Designed a Quantum Graph Search Technique That Matches Google
Researchers describe a fast new way of exploring complex data structures.
New Method Evaluates Antibiotics Based on the Tiny Vibrations of Dying Microbes
The NIST-developed technique could greatly speed up the process of diagnosing infections.
Someone Programmed an Arduino Board with a Worm's Brain
302 simulated roundworm neurons running on a cheap hobbyist hardware platform.