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A Weapon for Readers by Tim Parksnybooks.com
There is something predatory, cruel even, about a pen suspended over a work of literature. Like a hawk over a field, it is on the lookout for something vulnerable. -
An area of darknesseconomist.com
A barber works by candlelight. India was plunged into darkness when three of its regional grids collapsed, leaving millions of people without electricity Source: AP... -
squing.blogspot.com
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Will the madness never end? Komodia SSL certificates are EVERYWHEREmarcrogers.org
So as people have started turning over stones looking to see how common these Komodia certificates are, some surprising (and depressing) things are beginning to surface. It does appear that Komodia... -
America's Failure to Preserve Historic Slave Marketscitylab.com
Richmond, Virginia's Shockoe Bottom redevelopment plan is just the latest case study. -
Should we give up on the dream of space elevators?bbc.com
Elevators whisking people and cargo from Earth’s surface into space could end the era of rockets. But making them reality is challenging. Nic Fleming reports. -
Bayes' Theorem with Legocountbayesie.com
What's a good blog on probability without a post on Bayes' Theorem? Bayes' Theorem is one of those mathematical ideas that is simultaneously simple and demanding. Its fundamental aim is to formalize how information about one event can give us unders... -
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The Boys Who Loved Birds | The Big Roundtablethebigroundtable.com
The Big Roundtable | A home for writers with true stories they need to tell. - blog.cr.yp.to
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We don’t need more STEM majors. We need more STEM majors with liberal arts training.washingtonpost.com
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The dangerous allure of the "Billion Dollar Startup Club" • Climb Highersethbannon.com
Yesterday Forbes published a piece on “The Billion Dollar Startup Club”. As more attention is paid to the world of entrepreneurship and more and more people are aspiring to start their own companies, there’s a disturbing trend developing of people... |... -
Neutrino scarefrontline.in
India’s neutrino project, slated to come up in Bodi hills in Tamil Nadu, once again runs aground, this time following a petition filed by MDMK leader Vaiko, who has raised the spectre of the unknown dangers of “artificial neutrinos” and “factory-produc... -
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techblog.netflix.com
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Govern Node Right.nodegovernance.io
The Node foundation should adopt io.js's open governance model for its technical committee. -
github.com
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Physicists Trim the Noise from Quantum Computingmotherboard.vice.com
The smaller the system, the more background interference gets in the way. For IRL quantum computers, this is a big problem. - loci-lang.org
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Lenovo CTO: We’re Working to Wipe Superfish App Off of PCsblogs.wsj.com
Lenovo’s chief technology officer, Peter Hortensius, acknowledged that "we didn’t do enough" due diligence before installing Superfish, but that the company doesn’t believe laptop owners were harmed by the app.
