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Akhil Sharma: The money myth - FT.comft.com
The idea that money reveals things that our words hide has been a part of me for as far back as I can remember. My mother tells a story of how, when my father was a child, his mother, my grandmother, cooked a dish with peas. Peas used to be - avc.com
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Spanish Newspaper Publishers' Association Now Asks Government To Help Stop Google News Closure | The Spain Reportthespainreport.com
NEWS: AEDE announces it wants the Spanish government and EU competition authorities to stop Google closing Google News: "to protect the rights of citizens and businesses". -
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SciJS - Fast JavaScript Vector & Matrix Manipulation Projectdocs.google.com
This is a short survey that's 4 questions only. This is a survey about the upcoming NumJS and SciJS libraries. Please answer sincerely. https://github.com/benjamingr/numjs/blob/master/design/1.md - kqueue.org
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Meet the People (and Robots) Who Pack Your Online Orderstheatlantic.com
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TechuSearch - Fulltext search with a friendly facetechusearch.com
TechuSearch is a realtime search service with a JSON REST API to help you integrate fast and reliable search features in your applications. -
The Intel Enigmamondaynote.com
by Jean-Louis Gassée Intel once turned down the opportunity to become the sole supplier of iPhone processors. Why haven’t th -
Mystery Solved for How Birds Lost Their Teeth : DNewsnews.discovery.com
The lack of teeth in all living birds can be traced back to a common ancestor who lost its choppers about 116 million years ago. -
Making the Shortest Path Even Quicker - Microsoft Researchresearch.microsoft.com
Finding the shortest path between two points in a network is a classic computing problem. Now the popularity of online maps and portable devices challenges researchers to find even more efficient ways of solving the shortest-path problem. -
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What Students Do (And Don't Do) In Khan Academyblog.mrmeyer.com
tl;dr -- Khan Academy claims alignment with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) but an analysis of their eighth-grade year indicates that alignment is loose. 40% of Khan Academy exercises assess... -
Tycho Brahe, Astronomical Instruments (1598) - BILDGEISTbildgeist.com
Born in 1546 in Denmark, Tycho Brahe served as an astronomer for the king of Denmark, and later, for the Holy Roman Emperor in Prague. He was well known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. He was also a pretty ec... - dpdk.org
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The beauty of palm leaf manuscripts (1): Central Thailand - Asian and African studies blogbritishlibrary.typepad.co.uk
Palm leaves have been a popular writing support in South and Southeast Asia for about two thousand years. In Thailand, palm leaf manuscripts were produced mostly for religious, literary and historical texts, but also for works relating to astronomy and... -
The scale-up nationeconomist.com
ISRAEL is rightly proud of its status as a startup nation. It boasts the world’s highest concentration of high-tech startups per head. Almost 1,000 new firms are... -
Using Rust to Make a Safer Interface for Yahoo’s Fast MDBM Database - Tilting at Rabbit Holeserickt.github.io
I’m really supposed to be working on my serialization series, but I just saw a neat new library that was open sourced by Yahoo a couple days …