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Urban Legends In The World of Clinical Trials - Neuroskepticblogs.discovermagazine.com
Ethnographer Jill A. Fisher offers a fascinating look at the rumors and urban legends that circulate among the volunteers who get paid to take part in medical research: Stopped hearts, amputated toes and NASA Fisher visited six clinical trial facilitie... -
Octothorpe99percentinvisible.org
If you want to follow conversation threads relating to this show on social media—whether Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, Tumblr—you know to look for the hashtag: #99pi. In our current digital age,... -
The Nitrous Oxide Philosophertheatlantic.com
Do drugs make religious experience possible? They did for James and for other philosopher-mystics of his day. James's experiments with psychoactive drugs raise difficult questions about belief and its conditions -
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Harvard Design Magazine: Built on Sand: Singapore and the New State of Riskharvarddesignmagazine.org
In June 2014, drivers crossing the causeway between Singapore and Johor, Malaysia, began to notice something strange. A slender sandbar, which had long stood... -
Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists - Code Of Honorcodeofhonor.com
In this post I’m going to talk about linked lists, a seemingly trivial subject that many programmers — even good ones — seem to get terribly wrong! Then I’m going to share techniques (with source code) to make your game engine code simpler, faster, mor... -
Back-up brains: The era of digital immortalitybbc.com
How do you want to be remembered? As Simon Parkin discovers, we may eventually be able to preserve our entire minds for generations to come – would you? -
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The Secret Language of Tennis Champions - Issue 6: Secret Codes - Nautilusnautil.us
It’s a warm summer afternoon in New York City, and Bob and Mike Bryan are hitting the fuzzy covers off tennis balls, their looping… -
Where I Went Rightlabs.theguardian.com
Pioneers in tech, science and exploration discuss the formative moments in their lives. Created by The Guardian & sponsored by Rolex Awards for Enterprise -
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Requests for Startupsrequestsforstartups.com
A daily newsletter of ideas that investors, companies, and influencers would like to fund. -
This Industry Is Still Completely Ridiculoustechcrunch.com
Things are getting pretty strange out there. Roughly a year ago I wrote a post entitled "This Industry Is Completely Ridiculous." Since then, as you probably.. -
McDouble is 'cheapest and most nutritious food in human history' - Telegraphtelegraph.co.uk
Describing the McDonald’s double cheeseburger as “the cheapest, most nutritious, and bountiful food that has ever existed in human history” might seem beyond fanciful, but according to the author of Freakonomics, it is... -
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Why Small Businesses Are Starting to Win Again - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
In certain industries, the simple story of big-beats-small doesn’t hold true. Consider the story of craft beer. -
What You Probably Don't Know About the Gaokaoeducationrealist.wordpress.com
I didn't intend to write about the gaokao, or Brook Larmer 's profile of 18-year-old Yang and his family inside Chinese test prep factory. I just started out googling, as is my wont, to find out mo... -
Meant to Keep Mosquitos Out, Nets Are Used to Haul Fish Innytimes.com
The nets, with holes smaller than mosquitoes, trap much more than traditional fishing nets do and could wipe out stressed fish populations in Africa.