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A Room with the Lowest Magnetic Field in the Solar Systemspectrum.ieee.org
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GoPro CEO’s promise to a college friend just cost him $229 millionfortune.com
Woodman was handing back shares as part of an agreement he struck with his college roommate. -
Airbnb rentals cut deep into SF housing stock, report sayssfexaminer.com
San Francisco is once again debating how best to regulate short-term rental websites like Airbnb, after a law legalizing the practice went into effect less... -
Startup entrepreneur sues Uber, claims CEO stole idea for on-demand taxisarstechnica.co.uk
"They stole the entire blueprint for success and have passed it off as their own." -
Swearing Off the Modern Mannytimes.com
No more Twitter games. No more Instagram dissections. No more Facebook predation. I wanted someone mature. -
B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89nytimes.com
Mr. King’s world-weary voice and wailing guitar lifted him from the cotton fields of Mississippi to a global stage and the apex of American blues. -
Semantics3 - APIs for Products and Pricessemantics3.com
The Semantics3 data API provides access to millions of products data. -
kordless/README.mdgist.github.com
StackMonkey Quick and Dirty APIs - Gist is a simple way to share snippets of text and code with others. -
Patent US20130108038 - System and method for a collatz based hash functiongoogle.com
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for generating a hash based on the Collatz conjecture. The Collatz conjecture is based on a set of operations for a given number n that are performed iteratively ... -
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Indonesia army urged to stop virginity tests for recruits - BBC Newsbbc.co.uk
The Indonesian army should stop imposing "virginity tests" on female recruits, rights groups say ahead of a medical conference in Bali. -
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Temple Medicine, Oracles and the Making of Modernity: The Ancient Greek Occult in Anthropology and Psychologyforbiddenhistories.wordpress.com
Among the key figures in the hidden history of the human sciences are the Munich philosopher Carl du Prel (1839-1899) and the Cambridge classicist and psychologist Frederic W. H. Myers (1843-1901).... -
From Sand and Cactustheparisreview.org
Raymond Chandler the environmentalist. The wise man, as Biblical lore has it, built his house on the rock, his foolish compatriot on the sand—guidance that mankind has ignored for millennia. In the late nineteenth century, the pioneers, or developers, ... -
Computing Research News - Online - Computing Research Associationcra.org
The Computing Research Association website is a premier resource for info related to Computer science, Computer Scientists and Computer Researchers. -
The Robots Are Winning! by Daniel Mendelsohnnybooks.com
We have been dreaming of robots since Homer. In Book 18 of the Iliad, Achilles’ mother, the nymph Thetis, wants to order a new suit of armor for her son, and so she pays a visit to the Olympian atelier of the blacksmith-god Hephaestus, whom she finds h... -
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In Defence Of WordPressma.ttias.be
The internet is verbally attacking WordPress again. I read a lot of hate towards WordPress for its latest security vulnerabilities that have become public. What I don't see is praise in how those updates are handled and distributed to its millions of u...