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Writing Your First Lua Program on Linux

There are a multitude of programming languages out there but if you are looking to learn a new language, one that is easy to grasp, fast and open source is Lua.

By Gary Sims – Nov 7, 2013

If you double-check if the door is locked (even when you know it is), psychology says you likely have these 8 distinct traits

Jun 27, 2026

Psychology says people who push their chair back in when they leave a table usually display these 9 unique behaviors

Jun 27, 2026

When Sony shipped the first Walkman in 1979, chairman Akio Morita insisted on a second headphone jack and a “hotline” talk button, convinced it would be rude for one person to listen to music alone — and within a few years buyers had ignored the sociable features so completely that Sony quietly dropped them

Jun 15, 2026

Russia still custom-builds the Soyuz return seats for ISS crew members using plaster casts taken weeks before launch, because astronauts grow as much as five centimetres taller during a long-duration stay and a seat moulded to their Earth-shaped spine would no longer fit the body that comes home

Jun 12, 2026

Mycorrhizal fungi colonised plant roots roughly 450 million years ago and biologists now suspect plants could never have moved out of the oceans onto bare rock without them, meaning every forest on Earth — including the redwoods, the Amazon, and the boreal belt — is still running on a partnership older than trees themselves

Jun 11, 2026

Close-up of a young adult using a smartphone outdoors, highlighting modern technology and connectivity.

The “CrackBerry” nickname stuck for a reason — and the variable-reward psychology that hooked early-2000s executives on their BlackBerrys is the exact same machinery now running every push notification on every smartphone in your pocket