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Humble spud poised to launch a world food revolutiontheguardian.com
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GM's hit and run: How a lawyer, mechanic, and engineer blew open the worst auto scandal in historypando.com
As the sun was setting on a stormy Georgia day, Brooke Melton was 30 miles outside of Atlanta in her Chevy Cobalt. It was March 10, 2010, her birthday, and the 29-year-old pediatric nurse was on he... -
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Disney rendered its new animated film on a 55,000-core supercomputerengadget.com
Disney's upcoming animated film Big Hero 6, about a boy and his soft robot (and a gang of super-powered friends), is perhaps the largest big-budget -
Leslie Lamport on Distributed Systems and Precise Thinkinginfoq.com
Leslie Lamport is the author of some of the most cited computer science papers and won a Turing Award in 2013 for his seminal work in distributed and concurrent systems. This is a summary of an interview that Lamport gave to Software Engineering Radio ... -
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Organized Crime Pays | VICE United Statesvice.com
Being involved in the Mafia is not a glamorous profession. Starting salaries are low, and even if you become a boss you'll someday be murdered by your enemies or thrown in prison. -
Thinking Functionally with Haskell: Richard Bird: 9781107087200: Amazon.com: Booksamazon.com
Thinking Functionally with Haskell [Richard Bird] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Richard Bird is famed for the clarity and rigour of his writing. His new textbook, which introduces functional programming to students -
Where Mud Is Archaeological Gold, Russian History Grew on Treesnytimes.com
More than 1,000 birch-bark documents have been uncovered after being preserved for hundreds of years in the magical mud of Veliky Novgorod. -
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Arsenic Eatersultimatehistoryproject.com
Say the word arsenic and most people think "deadly poison." Arsenic was the poison of choice for murderers up through the latter part of the nineteenth century, and it is still used for homicides... -
A Bridged History of Königsbergtychosnose.com
To mathematicians, they are the most famous bridges in the world. Spanning the river Pregel as it flows into the Baltic Sea, the Seven Bridges of Königsberg are today virtually synonymous with the ... -
Kim Philby and the Age of Paranoianytimes.com
THE HEART OF THE MATTER The presence of the Philby papers in London was still a closely guarded secret when I stumbled on them through an inadvertent slip by Graham Greene's nephew. I'd found him, the nephew, in the cluttered basement of his Gloucest... - diaryproducts.net
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Rescuing Aristotlescientiasalon.wordpress.com
by Robin Herbert Perhaps you are familiar with the following passage from Bertrand Russell: “Observation versus Authority: To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be... -
Why Does S Look Like F?: A Guide to Reading Very Old Books—Blogtheappendix.net
Paleography, the study of premodern writing, is the domain of specialist scholars- but a quick crash course in how to read early modern books can open up a treasure trove of forgotten works.