16. Snowball Earth may hide a far stranger climate cycle than anyone expected (sciencex.com)

During the Sturtian glacial period during the Neoproterozoic Era, Earth underwent periods of global glaciation, which have been described as either "Snowball" and "Slushball" Earth scenarios. In Snowball Earth models, the planet was completely covered in ice for around 56 million years. In the Slushball models, portions of thin or patchy ice or even open water still existed in the tropics. However, there are some inconsistencies between these models and geological and biological evidence.

18. What can we gain by losing infinity? (www.quantamagazine.org)

Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insights in math and beyond.

27. "Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++ (derekrodriguez.dev)

Alexis King’s Parse, don’t validate had a huge impact on how I write code, particularly my stance toward Python type annotations in production. However, as someone who has written practically zero Haskell, the idea didn’t click for me until I started seeing other examples, like this one in Rust. This post explores how we can take this paradigm and apply it to a simple date-parsing problem in C++98, C++11, C++17, and finally C++23.

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