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Jerven on Measuring African Poverty and Progress | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Libertyecontalk.org
Morten Jerven of Simon Fraser University, author of Poor Numbers, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the quality of data coming out of Africa on income, growth, and population. Jerven argues that the inconsistency of the numbers and... -
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Mysticism and Machines | History Todayhistorytoday.com
John Cohen's 1963 essay, Automata in Myth and Science, tantalisingly introduces some of the beguiling objects and strange stories that appear, just a few years later, in his monograph Human Robots in Myth and Science (1966). In both, Cohen explores hum... -
Why Using Patriarchal Messaging to Promote Toilets is a Bad Ideathewire.in
The struggles for women's empowerment and improving sanitation are both harmed by using patriarchal messages to encourage construction of toilets. - mikeash.com
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The People Who Survive, an interview with Neal Stephenson, author of Seveneveselectricliterature.com
There’s nothing pint-sized about Neal Stephenson. He’s famous not only for his supersized books (the last three clocking in between 850 and 1,050 pages); he’s also made a career of unpacking Big Id... - reviews.llvm.org
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Ordos: The biggest ghost town in China - BBC Newsbbc.com
A mining boom in Inner Mongolia led to a large-scale house building programme, but in Ordos the houses stand empty, a sign that China's housing bubble may have burst, says Peter Day. -
The women whom science forgot - BBC Newsbbc.com
Many female scientists in the past were not given credit for their achievements - here are just a few of them. - idoco.github.io
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bug report: Illustrator CC 2015 export artboard... | Adobe Communityforums.adobe.com
In new illustrator CC 2015 when I need to save every artboard as svg files (File--->save as..---> svg--> use artboard...) - the files is null (no artwork -
How to hack into an email account, with just your victim's mobile numbergrahamcluley.com
Symantec has issued a warning about a successful scam being perpetrated against users of webmail services such as Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo. -
A Papal Message That Spares No One - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
There is something in the Pope’s climate-change encyclical to dismay just about everyone, including many who consider the environment an urgent concern. -
GitHub's top 10 most popular projectscomputerworld.com
Creators and contributors shed light on GitHub's most-popular projects -- and sing praise to the code-sharing site's impact on their community and code - roguetemple.com
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IMAX’s absurd attempt to censor Arsarstechnica.com
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love to Crashengineering-blog.alphasights.com
How to architect Elixir and Erlang OTP applications to gracefully handle crashes. Let it crash!