By Serdar Yegulalp Puppet, the configuration management and automation tool for datacenters, forms a major portion of the infrastructure supporting code-hosting service GitHub. GitHub has now open-sourced one of its key Puppet tools, a …read more Source:: OpenSource
Day: October 24, 2016
How lying takes our brains down a ‘slippery slope’
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•Telling small lies desensitizes our brains to the associated negative emotions and may encourage us to tell bigger lies in future, reveals new research. …read more Source:: Science
Human-made noise can affect how animals use information from scents
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•For the first time, research has found that human-made noise can have a detrimental impact on an animal’s use of scent – putting them at greater risk of being attacked …read more Source:: Science
Amazon rainstorms transport atmospheric particles for cloud formation
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•Tracking atmospheric particles in a pristine environment will help scientists understand the impact of industrial aerosols on climate, say researchers at conclusion of a study on Amazonian rainstorms. …read more Source:: Science
What the ancient carbon dioxide record may mean for future climate change
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•Scientists have reconstructed the ancient atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) record from about 300 million years ago. Their study reveals previously unknown fluctuations of atmospheric CO2 at levels projected for current …read more Source:: Science
5 wicked-fast Python frameworks you have to try
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Faster, simpler, more “Pythonic” — those are the rallying cries for each new web framework in the Python ecosystem. There’s nothing wrong with tried-and-true solutions, but the big leap from …read more Source:: OpenSource