A daily read across 9 fields · Technology
Who looks after the free software behind your banking app?“Often, one unpaid person maintains it in their spare time, answering bug reports at odd hours because nobody else will.”
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Why Allergy Itch Can Persist When Histamine Is Blocked
Antihistamines block only the H1 receptor. Learn how cytokines like IL-31, IL-4 and IL-13 send itch signals to nerves by other routes.
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What we publish
8 formats| Format | What it is | Cadence | Pieces |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thread | The separate fields a familiar technology converged from. | Weekly | 28 |
| Slant | A short observation that leans a familiar thing until something arbitrary in it tips into view. | Weekly | 15 |
| Spark | A small invention or idea that arrived sideways, by accident or side effect. | Every two weeks | 15 |
| Reverb | A mid-length retrospective on a discontinued product and the ideas it left behind. | Every two weeks | 11 |
| Wild | An animal or natural system whose ordinary work holds a whole ecosystem up. | Every two weeks | 11 |
| Inspiration | An essay that reads one painting, film or book for what it knows about people. | Every two weeks | 84 |
| Article | A reported piece across the 9 fields. | Three days a week | 517 |
| Voices | A single idea from a well known thinker, explained at length. | Archive | 56 |
| Total | 737 |