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Roman Gladiators ate a mostly vegetarian diet and drank a tonic of ashes after trainingsciencedaily.com
Roman gladiators ate a mostly vegetarian diet and drank ashes after training as a tonic. These are the findings of anthropological investigations carried out on bones of warriors found during excavations in the ancient city of Ephesos. -
We Just Thought, 'This Is How You Start A Company In America'forbes.com
Kind of like every baseball player will try to be Major League, I thought that Silicon Valley is where you should start if you want to go big as an entrepreneur. In Japan, of course, there are accelerators and a proud tradition in technology. I had fol... -
Why Google wants to replace Gmailcomputerworld.com
Gmail represents a dying class of products that, like Google Reader, puts control in the hands of users, not signal-harvesting algorithms. -
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Stealthy startup Soft Machines launches virtual CPU cores that trounce traditional processorspcworld.com
Backed by a who's who list of big names in the chip industry, startup Soft Machines is launching a chip that spreads workloads out over a CPU's cores. -
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Mystery photos from CERN's historycds.cern.ch
Over the first 50 years of its existence, before digital photography became the norm, CERN accumulated about a quarter of a million hard-copy images in its archive. Now, a project is underway to digitise the entire collection and make it searchable via... -
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Can William Gibson Predict the Future?gq.com
Sci-fi novelist William Gibson writes dystopian thrillers that have an eerie habit of coming true. Which is a little unsettling, actually, because his new book, The Peripheral, is his most dire yet. Zach Baron asks the author about what's next for the ... -
Thaw reveals photographer’s notebook from Captain Scott’s Antarctic huttheguardian.com
Notebook belonging to George Murray Levick remarkably legible after conservation work, with find blamed on global warming -
Guardian launches open-source data journalism tooljournalism.co.uk
Swarmize enables journalists to tell new, collaborative stories by making use of real-time data collection and visualisation -
The Skinny on Bad Parchmentmedievalbooks.nl
My favourite activity is to touch, smell, and listen to the crackling sound of cows and sheep that have been dead for a thousand years. That's right, I am talking about medieval parchment, the stan... -
October 2014 results - big changessecuritypitfalls.wordpress.com
While last month's results were not very interesting, this month is anything but. But before we go into results, there were few small changes to how the statistics are reported. First difference is... - jlebar.com
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Bitcoin 2.0: Sidechains And Ethereum And Zerocash, Oh My! | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Strange, interesting, and wildly ambitious things are afoot in the world of Bitcoin and blockchains. I give you Zerocash, a completely anonymous currency;.. -
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Twitter to acquire Twitpicrecode.net
Twitter will acquire Twitpic, a website that allowed users to post photos to the microblogging site. Twitpic announced on its blog that, after the "roller coaster ride" of recent months, it has rea... - blog.twitpic.com