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The worst possible way to push kids into studying science, math and engineeringwashingtonpost.com
A 1961 reform doubled the number of Italian students graduating with STEM degrees. But wages actually went down. -
Monarch butterflies could be declared an endangered species. Here's what that means.vox.com
The monarch population in North America has fallen as much as 90 percent. -
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Here's what to expect from CES 2015theverge.com
With 2014 now firmly in the rearview mirror, the tech industry is gearing up to start 2015 off with a bang as it gathers for the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This grand-scale... -
Big Bang to Be Investigated From Balloon in Antarcticanytimes.com
A set of six telescopes known as Spider will circle the continent for the next 20 days, observing a haze of faint microwave radio waves that are thought to be the fading Big Bang remnants. -
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Sweepstakes scams, hidden charges, unwanted subscriptions and much more. The True Link Prepaid Visa® Card keeps watch, so you don't have to. -
A Decade of Replications: Lessons from the Quarterly Journal of Political Sciencethepoliticalmethodologist.com
Editor's note: this piece is contributed by Nicholas Eubank, a PhD Candidate in Political Economy at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. The success of science depends critically o... -
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A Hacker's Hit List of American Infrastructuretheatlantic.com
In an 800-page document dump, the U.S. government revealed critical vulnerabilities. -
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freebsd/pkggithub.com
Howdy, The patches here add support for building on Mac OS X; with these changes, all included tests (executed via `make check') pass on both Mac OS X and FreeBSD. I don't anticipate an immediate merge, but I wanted to go ahead and open this to allow f... -
Who is Bigger?whoisbigger.com
computational methods to measure historical significance through analysis of Wikipedia and other data sources -
Robot learns to use tools by ‘watching’ YouTube videos | KurzweilAIkurzweilai.net
Robot watches videos to detect objects and how to grasp them. Hmmm, so that's how to hold and slice a soft spherical red object by holding a slicing-tool with -
What the World Will Speak in 2115wsj.com
English will still dominate a century from now, but it will no longer share the planet with thousands of other languages. Instead, expect fewer but simpler modes of oral communication on every continent. -
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We Used to Recycle Drugs From Patients' Urinesmithsonianmag.com
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