You have that slide rule in the back of the closet. Maybe it was from your college days. Maybe it was your Dad’s. Honestly. Do you know how to use it? Really? All the scales? That’s ...

There’s more to making an oscillator than meets the eye, and [lcamtuf] is here with a good primer on the subject. It starts with the old joke that if you need an oscillator it’s best ...

Mr. Gunson is a senior analyst for the Andes region at International Crisis Group. He wrote from Caracas, Venezuela. Caracas, Venezuela’s neglected but beautiful capital, sits behind a forested, over ...