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The Caveman’s Home Was Not a Cave - Issue 8: Home - Nautilusnautil.us
It was the 18th-century scientist Carolus Linnaeus that laid the foundations for modern biological taxonomy. It was also Linnaeus… -
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Lesson 5: The MSP430 Architecturesimplyembedded.wordpress.com
In lesson 4 we looked at setting up a digital input to read a push button press. The polling implementation used is rather crude and not ideal in a real embedded system which interacts with many de... -
The truth about Norwegian lemmingsbbc.com
Despite what you have heard, lemmings are not stupid, they don't suicidally hurl themselves off cliffs, and they don't explode -
Ko1 at RubyConf 2014: Massive Garbage Collection Speedup in Ruby 2.2 - The Omniref Blogomniref.com
Today at RubyConf 2014, Koichi Sasada (Ko1) gave a detailed description of some massive speedups that are going to be released as part of Ruby 2.2. … -
There’s a Giant Contradiction at the Heart of the U.S. Economynytimes.com
Three theories about why important economic clues are pointing different ways. - ams.org
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There's a Suicide Epidemic in Utah — And One Neuroscientist Thinks He Knows Whymic.com
Living in Utah may make people 30% more likely to commit suicide. Only now has somebody been able to explain it. -
A Rare Peek Into The Massive Scale of AWSenterprisetech.com
The idea behind cloud computing, as pioneer Amazon Web Services believed when it launched its first utility compute and storage products eight years ago, i -
Lost languages leave traces on the brainarstechnica.com
Babies' brains adjust to listening to a language, even if they never learn it. -
BICEP2 all over again? Researchers place Higgs boson discovery in doubtphys.org
At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe, faster is better. Faster means more powerful particle collisions and looking deeper into the makeup of matter. However, other researchers are proclaiming not so fast. LHC may not have discovered the Higgs B... -
I Stuck My Hands into a Virtual Reality Interface and Felt The Futuremotherboard.vice.com
We don't usually go gaga for gadgets, but Leap Motion's new haptic feedback controller rules. -
Why Aston Motes, Dropbox's First Employee, Chose MIT Over Caltechm.fastcompany.com
Aston Motes, currently chief software architect at Merchbar, on diversity in Silicon Valley: the pipeline is kind of up to the gatekeepers - inside.mines.edu
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The Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”openculture.com
If you've taken a good art history course on the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, you've inevitably encountered Vincent van Gogh's 1889 masterpiece 'Starry Night,' which now hangs in the MoMA in New York City. -
Boosted Boards - 3 New Electric Skateboard Models Starting at $999boostedboards.com
3 new models of electric skateboards that will appeal to any rider. -
Laser from a plane discovers Roman goldmines in Spainsciencedaily.com
Hidden under the vegetation and crops of the Eria Valley, in León (Spain), there is a gold mining network created by the Romans two thousand years ago, as well as complex hydraulic works, such as river diversions, to divert water to the mines of the pr... -
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How Players at MIT Engineered a Football Teamonline.wsj.com
This season, the football team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology is undefeated and will make its first appearance in the NCAA’s Division III playoffs. The team traces its roots to a decades-old student experiment.