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The sudden “eureka” insights that drive progress in science and mathematics remain shrouded in mystery. Here, we borrow theory and methods from statistical physics and theoretical ecology to attempt ...

You'd create a line in the Notepad like Capslock::^+Escape (where ^ corresponds to Ctrl and + to Shift, as described here). You can add a comment above it using a semicolon (;) to add a note. You can ...

Back in the 1990s, Windows power users often availed themselves of a set of small, free software tools from Microsoft collectively known as “PowerToys.” (Read about their history at Wikipedia.) ...

Every so often, a tool comes along that changes how you work, and makes you wish that you’d started using it sooner. For me, that tool is FancyZones, which is technically a feature of Microsoft’s ...

John DeLuca, who owned De Luca General Store on Staten Island for 43 years, died of COVID-19 in May. John Guzzo, a regular since the ’70s: DeLuca wasn’t the kind of place you’d go to if you needed ...

Hardcover or soft? Leather or cloth? Spiral-bound or sewn? Are the pages gridded? Are they a comfortable writing size? Do they tear out easily? Whether you use your notebook mainly for jotting, ...