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What Ever Happened to the Airplane Barf Bag?slate.com
I threw up on a plane once. It’s not my favorite travel memory, but one that came up again during a recent flight, when I noticed that the seatback pouch in front of me was ill-equipped. SkyMall catalog? Check. In-flight magazine? Check. Plastic-lined ... -
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Pebble Passes 5,000 Smartwatch Apps: How It Got There, And What Comes Nextfastcompany.com
Can a grassroots watch take on Apple, Google, and Samsung? So far, Pebble's putting up a fight. -
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An Orangutan Has (Some) Human Rights, Argentine Court Rules | WIREDwired.com
An orangutan named Sandra has become the first non-human animal recognized as a person in a court of law. An Argentine appeals court declared on Friday that the 28-year-old great ape, who is owned by the Buenos Aires Zoo, is a "non-human person" who ha... - joeyh.name
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For Stanford Class of ’94, a Gender Gap More Powerful Than the Internetnytimes.com
How an industry devoted to overturning barriers let a gender gap stand unchallenged. -
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Bedbug bait and trap invented by Simon Fraser University scientistscbc.ca
After 180,000 bedbug bites and eight years of study, Simon Fraser University scientists say they have invented a new kind of bedbug bait and trap. -
The First Man-Made Biological Leafsciencedump.com
RCA graduate Julian Melchiorri says the synthetic biological leaf he developed, which absorbs water and carbon dioxide to produce oxygen just like a plant, could enable long-distance space travel. -
<p>So I’m fine with AI, because I don’t believe in it in the usual way it is interpreted, as machine consciousness. I don’t think that will happen, because brains and machines are very different...ayjay.tumblr.com
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Entry Point of JPMorgan Data Breach Is Identifieddealbook.nytimes.com
The weak spot at JPMorgan appears to have been a fairly simple two-step password system that was neglected, leading to a major security breach this summer. - nikic.github.io
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Four Charts That Defined the World in 2014 - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
Here are four charts that reveal trends with particularly far-reaching implications for the global economy. -
Mathematicians Make a Major Discovery About Prime Numbers | WIREDwired.com
A year after tackling how close together prime number pairs can stay, mathematicians have now made the first major advance in 76 years in understanding how far apart primes can be. -
IRAS-Based Whole-Sky Upper Limit on Dyson Spheres - Abstract - The Astrophysical Journal - IOPscienceiopscience.iop.org
A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical construct of a star purposely shrouded by a cloak of broken-up planetary material to better utilize all of the stellar energy. A clean Dyson sphere identification would give a significant signature for intelligence at w... -
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