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Election 2015: What difference would proportional representation have made? - BBC Newsbbc.co.uk
As UKIP demands a change to the voting system, the BBC examines what difference this could have made. -
UN Experts Say TPP and Fast Track Threaten Human Rightseff.org
Prominent experts at the United Nations have now indicated that secretive trade agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) undermine human rights around the world, both because of the secretive, corporate-dominated process, and due to the s... -
EFF Asks Patent Office to Focus On Protecting Public from Bad Patentseff.org
This week, together with Public Knowledge and Engine, EFF submitted written comments to the Patent Office regarding its Patent Quality Initiative. We urge the Patent Office to ensure that this program actually reduces the number of invalid patents bein... -
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Stream movies and TV shows in excellent DVD, 720p, 1080p and 3D quality right in your browser at ultrafast speeds. -
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In a propaganda war against ISIS, the U.S. tried to play by the enemy’s ruleswashingtonpost.com
“Welcome to ISIS Land,” a State Department propaganda video that went viral, has become a flash point in a debate over how far the U.S. should go to engage a barbaric adversary online. -
Is There Enough Meat for Everyone?gatesnotes.com
Bill Gates reviews the book “Should We Eat Meat?” by his favorite author Vaclav Smil. -
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We Just Ate Our Own Dog Food!blog.ascribe.io
We're big fans of Ella Frost's work, so we reached out to her ... to use her work for our page ... Ella wired us the IP via ascribe.... -
Scents of Smell Rooted in Mathwsj.com
The Numbers: Columnist Jo Craven McGinty looks at the how the scents and sense of smell is rooted in predictable mathematical patterns. -
In Mathematics, Mistakes Aren’t What They Used To Be - Issue 24: Error - Nautilusnautil.us
Vladimir Voevodsky had no sooner sat himself down at the sparkling table, set for a dinner party at the illustrious Institute for… -
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App Icon Resizerresizeappicon.com
A simple webservice to resize your app icon to all needed resolutions with rocket speed. iOS, Android and Watch support! -
Meet the MIT student who filmed his own brain surgeryvox.com
Gathering data during his cancer experience turned him into an advocate for patients' rights to access and share their own medical data. -
This is the first news article ever written about Applebusinessinsider.com
"The system may well be in the homes of several hundred hobbyists within a few months." -
Uber Seeks to Raise Up to $2 Billion in New Fundingwsj.com
Ride-sharing service Uber Technologies has briefed investors on plans to raise between $1.5 billion and $2 billion in new funding at a valuation expected at $50 billion or higher. -
On Mathematical Intelligence and How It Growsappliedsentience.com
TL;DR: There is no Royal Road. In his three recent and awesome posts on intelligence, Scott Alexander describes what it's like to grow up intellectually lopsided (high verbal IQ and a low-ish math ... -
Best practices for building large React applicationsblog.siftscience.com
Sift Science has been using React in production for almost a year now. In that time, we grew our application from a Backbone + React frankenstein hybrid app into one fairly large hierarchy of React components. In this post, we’ll describe some techn... -
Under the hood: Facebook’s cold storage systemcode.facebook.com
Finding a place for images to live so they can be instantly available is a recurring scale challenge for Facebook. -
An important notice for Desktop Next users As you've probably noticed, we're…plus.google.com
An important notice for Desktop Next users As you've probably noticed, we're about to release 15.04 Vivid Vervet and so begin work on 15.10. Our plan… - Will Cooke – Google+
