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Rent the Runway, a Designer Fashion Start-Up, Raises $60 Millionbits.blogs.nytimes.com
Investors are bullish on the company’s prospects, particularly its new subscription-based, Netflix-like business model. -
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A Meditation on the Art of Not Tryingnytimes.com
When you’re nervous, how can you be yourself? How you can force yourself to relax? How can you try not to try? It makes no sense, but the paradox may be essential to civilization. -
At Voice Charter School in Queens, Students Have Outperformed Their Peers Academicallynytimes.com
Voice Charter School in Long Island City, Queens, credits its focus on music with its students outpacing their peers on New York State math and English exams. -
Slow TV Is Here - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
A slow-TV program moves not at the warp speed of narrative drama but at the rate of actual experience. -
franko/luajit-lang-toolkitgithub.com
luajit-lang-toolkit - A Lua bytecode compiler written in Lua itself for didactic purposes or for new language implementations -
Did a Major New Investor Just Find the Future of Food Startups?eater.com
The inaugural class of the FOOD-X business accelerator program include websites, apps, and delivery services. - quip.com
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2600.com
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Kamcord - Designerjobs.lever.co
Kamcord is building a social network centered around gameplay videos for the world’s 1 billion mobile gamers. 2014 has been a breakout year for us and we’re growing like crazy! We’re looking for a talented lead designer to own our various mobile and we... - www-users.cs.umn.edu
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Elsevier retracting 16 papers for faked peer review - Retraction Watchretractionwatch.com
Fake peer reviews: They’re all the rage. Sixteen papers are being retracted across three Elsevier journals after the publisher discovered that one of the authors, Khalid Zaman, orchestrated fake peer reviews by submitting false contact information for ... -
fogus: 10 Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)blog.fogus.me
Pseudo-random ramblings from Fogus. - weblog.rubyonrails.org
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The Future of Privacypewinternet.org
Will governments and corporations expand current tracking policies? Or will innovators create new ways for individuals to control personal information? Experts are divided on whether a secure and balanced privacy-rights infrastructure will be in place ... -
Tech investors plowing money into future farmsseattletimes.com
Silicon Valley is pushing its way into every stage of the food-growing process, from tech tycoons buying up farmland to startups selling robots that work the fields to hackathons dedicated to building the next farming app. -
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Policing is a Dirty Job, But Nobody's Gotta Do It: 6 Ideas for a Cop-Free Worldrollingstone.com
As public outrage at police brutality grows, we take a look at a few of the practicable, real-world alternatives to the modern police system.