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Take Away Harvard’s Nonprofit Statusnymag.com
Harvard is a hedge fund, not a researcher in the public good. Let's tax it as such. -
Why America’s middle class is lostwashingtonpost.com
LIFTOFF & LETDOWN, CHAPTER 1 | The middle class took America to the moon. Then something went horribly wrong. -
The Creepy, Kitschy and Geeky Patches of US Spy Satellite Launchessmithsonianmag.com
There may be method to the madness behind the outlandish designs of the National Reconnaissance Office mission patches - f.briatte.org
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Persistent Associations between Maternal Prenatal Exposure to Phthalates on Child IQ at Age 7 Yearsplosone.org
PLOS ONE: an inclusive, peer-reviewed, open-access resource from the PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE. Reports of well-performed scientific studies from all disciplines freely available to the whole world. - fed.wiki.org
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Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users To “Upgrade” To Firefoxtechcrunch.com
If you're visiting any Yahoo property today, chances are you'll see an "Upgrade to the new Firefox" link in the top-right corner of your browser window. The.. -
Harvard's David Keith Knows How to Dial Down the Earth's Thermostat. Is It Time to Try?recode.net
As climate change risks grow, this Harvard professor says it's time to move small geoengineering experiments into the real world. -
Why you can't get 4K Netflix and Amazon on a PC or Mac (even though they're capable)macworld.com
It could be a long time before Netflix and Amazon enable 4K streaming to PCs and Macs. -
Forecasting the Sun’s Fury: How Artificial Intelligence Can Predict Solar Flares | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Networkblogs.scientificamerican.com
A couple of months ago, the sun sported the largest sunspot we’ve seen in the last 24 years. This monstrous spot, visible to the naked eye ... -
Big Ideas in Social Change, 2014opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
Lots of dedicated people and groups are trying to change the world. What do the most successful ones have in common? -
This New Technology Could Drastically Change Industries from Fashion to War | VICE Newsnews.vice.com
New ways of modeling the shape and movement of the bodies of actual people are going long way toward advancing cutting-edge products out of CGI and into real life. -
Ruby compiled with Clang is 8% faster than with GCC 4.9 and 44% faster than with GCC 4.7.2!cirandas.net
Lately, I've done a number of optimizations on the Ruby on Rails server I manage: Set Ruby's GC parameters to run GC less frequently (~50% boost) Using jemalloc as the memory allocator (~20% boost) Using gctools gem for out-of-band GC run (~50% less ti... -
Building a Minimal Convex Hullkukuruku.co
Since I have recently become interested in convex hulls, I decided to go on telling you about the algorithmic geometry. -
How Scientists Are Learning to Writetheatlantic.com
"That's jargon-ish. Even some people in the sciences don't have an intuitive understanding of what that means." -
Nashorn Architecture and Performance Improvements in the Upcoming JDK 8u40 Release (Nashorn)blogs.oracle.com
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All Info - H.R.4681 - 113th Congress (2013-2014): Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 | Congress.gov | Library of Congresscongress.gov
All Info for H.R.4681 - 113th Congress (2013-2014): Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015