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Marie Curie’s Research Papers Are Still Radioactive 100+ Years Lateropenculture.com
Image by The Wellcome Trust When researching a famous historical figure, access to their work and materials usually proves to be one of the biggest obstacles. -
We don’t trust drinking fountains anymore, and that’s bad for our healthwashingtonpost.com
One sultry day in 2012 , a handful of New Yorkers laid out a rich red carpet in Union Square Park. As a jazz band grooved in the background, vested and begloved hosts led guests to the star attraction... -
Can Science Tell Us What Beauty Is? - Issue 20: Creativity - Nautilusnautil.us
Have you ever had the experience of being so absorbed by a painting or a piece of music,” writes Anjan Chatterjee in his 2013 book… -
Fork Up! AirPair's $100,000.00 Git-Powered Developer Writing Competitionairpair.com
AirPair has released a set of new Github API powered publishing tools. To celebrate, AirPair is distributing over $100k in cash prizes to the best posts submitted before May 30th, 2015. -
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Shell Integration - iTerm2 - Mac OS Terminal Replacementiterm2.com
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The Fascinating Dedication of Train Enthusiastsatlasobscura.com
Many tourists would skip a trip to the Chernobyl Exclusion zone in Ukraine based on the radioactivity alone but on the day Emily Moser arrived, there was an... - psmag.com
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Facebook’s Security Chief Says Adobe Flash Must Diewired.com
Facebook's head of security is the latest to join the chorus calling for the death of Adobe Flash. - overthewire.org
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Details Emerge About Victoria Taylor's Dismissal at Redditbits.blogs.nytimes.com
In a post on Reddit late Sunday, Yishan Wong, Reddit’s former chief executive and Ellen Pao’s predecessor, accused Alexis Ohanian, a Reddit co-founder, of firing Ms. Taylor. -
Backed By Y Combinator, Willing Makes Estate And Funeral Planning Easiertechcrunch.com
It’s hard to face the business of death when you are busy living. According to one survey, 51 percent of Americans aged 55 to 64 don’t have wills. Even if.. -
Before Moby-Dick, There Wassmithsonianmag.com
This salty memoir by Richard Henry Dana Jr. was one of America's first literary classics -
square/inspectgithub.com
inspect is a collection of metrics collection, analysis utilities for various subsystems of linux, mysql and postgres. -
Armin Ronacher auf Twittertwitter.com
“So fun thing: you cannot start a tweet with "D. Tusk". Gives an internal server error. Yay in-band signalling.” -
Bringing the best of Bash scripting to Ruby (by @radekpazdera)radek.io
Programming, open-source and tech in general. -
7 Important Lessons from Airbnb's 7 Rejectionsfoundersatwork.posthaven.com
I am so happy Brian Chesky shared these rejection emails from Airbnb's early days. I am constantly reminded how most every successful startup began small and faced various types of rejection early... -
How Big Is Pluto? New Horizons Settles Decades-Long Debatenasa.gov
NASA’s New Horizons mission has answered one of the most basic questions about Pluto—its size. -
Inside Shanghai's hardcore gaming heartbeateurogamer.net
I've never missed a flight before, although I once came close in Seoul after mistakenly assuming Incheon city and Incheon airport were in the same place. If…