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OpenStreetMap for young people: a cool game that (re)creates the real world

Maps are very important and serious stuff. Maps explain, and in many cases control, how the world is.

The best places and moments to make room for women in technology

A few great quotes from a piece on technology, Kenyan women and geek culture that all “first world” western people should read in full for its implications on their society:

Microelectronics makes all YOUR world work

Microelectronics and, to a much greater extent, software, are two strategic, immensely powerful technologies. Here I try to explain, in the simplest possible way, why this happens and the basic characteristics of some modern integrated circuits.