Ken Shirriff's blog

Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United States. This inspired me to make a his...

We recently received an attitude indicator for the F-4 fighter plane, an instrument that uses a rotating ball to show the aircraft's ori...

Ferroelectric memory (FRAM) is an interesting storage technique that stores bits in a special "ferroelectric" material. Ferroelect...

Hurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenl...