The Economist | Call him Ishmael https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/07/20/born-200-years-ago-herman-melville-was-globalisations-first-great-bard?frsc=dg%7Ce

Herman Melville, who was born 200 years ago, was globalisation’s first great bard

Researchers at Stanford and TUM claim excess renewable energy could be used to make zero-emissions hydrogen at a profit in the right circumstances. They expect the process will get less costly once the technology ramps up.

Source: Stanford Study Examines Hydrogen As A Commercially Viable Storage Medium For Renewable Energy | CleanTechnica

Why the space agency struggles to achieve its human spaceflight goals

Source: Apollo was NASA’s biggest win — but its legacy is holding the agency back – The Verge

“There has to be a better way of doing things. And I think I’ve found it.”

Source: Buzz Aldrin is looking forward, not back—and he has a plan to bring NASA along | Ars Technica

Source: It’s Time for a Modern Synthesis Kernel – Embedded in Academia

Alexia Massalin’s 1992 PhD thesis has long been one of my favorites. It promotes the view that operating systems can be much more efficient than then-current operating systems via runtime code generation, lock-free synchronization, and fine-grained scheduling. In this piece we’ll only look at runtime code generation, which can be cleanly separated from the other aspects of this work.