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Can tiny plankton help reverse climate change? – David Biello – Aeonaeon.co
Once you know what plankton can do, you’ll understand why fertilising the ocean with iron is not such a crazy idea -
Wire Recorder Projectgentweb.co.uk
How recordings were recovered from wires recorded by my Grandfather on a home-made wire recorder in the late forties and early fifties. See my Webster Chicago (Webcor) wire recorder and hear some sounds from the wires - old BBC radio programs and more. -
Quark Quartet Fuels Quantum Feud | Quanta Magazinesimonsfoundation.org
Newly discovered particles are forcing physicists to extend their simple picture of subatomic interactions or replace it with a more nuanced understanding. -
IBM Sees Broader Role for Watson in Aiding Researchblogs.wsj.com
Watson, the IBM system that won "Jeopardy," has shown promise in answering some kinds of questions. Now the company sees a broader role, a bit like the deductions that helped its namesake's famous partner solve fictional crimes. -
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America’s Tech Guru Steps Down—But He’s Not Done Rebooting the Government | Enterprise | WIREDwired.com
The White House confirmed today the rumors that Todd Park, the nation’s Chief Technical Officer and the spiritual leader of its effort to reform the way the government uses technology, is leaving his post. -
Draft chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial (3rd Ed.) - Ruby on Rails Tutorial Newsnews.railstutorial.org
tl;dr: Draft chapters of the 3rd edition of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial are now available. I believe it’s the best edition yet. Sign up here for … -
Disney Research Patents ETH Zurich's PuppetCopter - IEEE Spectrumspectrum.ieee.org
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Mozilla Rolls Out Sponsored Tiles to Firefox Nightlythenextweb.com
Mozilla has rolled out directory tiles, the company’s advertising experiment for its browser’s new tab page, to the Firefox Nightly channel. We installed the latest browser build to give the... Keep reading → -
Shanghai to San Francisco in Under Two Hours? Don't Hold Your Breathcitylab.com
Chinese scientists say super-fast submarine technology could achieve torpedo speeds for passengers. File this one under fascinating but unlikely. - eecis.udel.edu
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Statwing | Yelp's $50k Dataset Challengestatwing.com
Yelp is awarding $50k+ in prizes for interesting analyses as part of its Dataset Challenge. Here's the dataset of ~42k businesses, their ratings, and their atributes, in Statwing so it's easy to explore: https://www.statwing.com/demos/yelp-data... -
The criminalisation of American businesseconomist.com
WHO runs the world’s most lucrative shakedown operation? The Sicilian mafia? The People’s Liberation Army in China? The kleptocracy in the Kremlin? If you are a... -
Will the internet eat your brain?economist.com
Mind Change: How Digital Technologies are Leaving their Mark on our Brains. By Susan Greenfield. Rider; 368 pages; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk A...