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Graves and Garbage: The Hard Life of an Archeologistnewyorker.com
A one-time-only archeology book club shares the specifics of their mysterious profession. -
A Poor Imitation of Alan Turing by Christian Carylnybooks.com
The Imitation Game not only fatally miscasts the mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing as a character—it also completely destroys any coherent telling of what he and his colleagues were trying to do. - www-personal.umich.edu
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The Spirit of the 1914 Christmas Trucewsj.com
A World War I interlude among British and German troops shows how even bitter foes can work out rituals of cooperation. -
Tech Talks Should be Less Technicalpostmodernpachyderm.wordpress.com
Yesterday at work, one of my coworkers was wondering out loud how technical he should make an upcoming talk of his. I told him that I have rarely been to a talk and thought, "I wish this were more ... -
Introducing Bedfellows - Features - Source: An OpenNews projectsource.opennews.org
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N.F.L. Playoff Simulatornytimes.com
There are about 618 trillion ways the season could end. Find your team’s path to the playoffs with this interactive simulator. -
Bitcoin Promoter Gets 2 Years for Silk Road Money Launderingbloomberg.com
Charlie Shrem, the former Bitcoin Foundation Inc. executive who pleaded guilty to charges tied to the illicit online bazaar “Silk Road,” was sentenced to two years in prison by a judge who rejected his bid to remain free and “change the world.” -
Is it time to cut adrift from island thinking? – Libby Robin – Aeonaeon.co
Islands are a natural laboratory for science; they gave us evolution. But isolation is no model for a cosmopolitan age -
If Apple holds the future of Computing ,I dont want to be a developerblog.madhukaraphatak.com
Thoughts on technology, life and everything else. - nicolewoo.ca
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The Cheapest Generationtheatlantic.com
Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy -
The 100-Year-Old Electric Carpopularmechanics.com
Alternative fuel cars are yesterday’s news to Jay Leno. He owns several that date back to nearly the dawn of the automobile era. -
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Cause And Effect: The Revolutionary New Statistical Test That Can Tease Them Apartmedium.com
Statisticians have always thought it impossible to tell cause and effect apart using observational data. Not any more. -
Buffett Reminds His Top Managers: Reputation Is Everythingblogs.wsj.com
Warren Buffett's "All-Stars" are getting their biennial reminder this month that they need to guard Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s reputation--and plan for the future. -
Illustris - Mainillustris-project.org
The Illustris cosmological simulation project. Towards a predictive theory of galaxy formation and evolution with hydrodynamical simulations of large cosmological volumes on a moving mesh.