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Early Urban Planning: Ancient Mayan City Built on Gridlivescience.com
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What happens after you’re arrested at a protest in New York.medium.com
I just got back from 12 hours in NYPD holding. If I can get arrested (with all of my white privilege and generally perce… -
Deep Dive into ASP.NET 5 (Channel 9)channel9.msdn.com
2-726 This talk will take you deep into the internals of the all-new ASP.NET 5 framework. This new, fully open source web framework sits on top of the new composable cross-platform .NET Runtime - the Core C -
Nick Bostrom: ‘I don’t think the artificial-intelligence train will slow down’theglobeandmail.com
A computer smarter than humans destroys civilization – it sounds like science fiction but thinking machines clearly pose a threat to our survival, argues the director of Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute -
Run a Wi-Fi Network? HBO and Showtime Want You to Police Your Userseff.org
Two men are going to fight this weekend, and HBO and Showtime have already thrown the first punch in the legal fight over online streaming of the match. Taking advantage of an increasingly abused loophole in copyright law, they have just won a court or... -
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The Cruelest Sport by Joyce Carol Oatesnybooks.com
And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul? And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul? —Walt Whitman, “I Sing the Body Electric” A boxer’s victory is gained in blood. —Greek inscription Professional boxing is the only majo... - zb3.github.io
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Indonesia’s Desperate Executions - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
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Quadratic votingericposner.com
Glen Weyl has uploaded a new version of his paper, Quadratic Voting (written with Steven Lalley), to SSRN, which now includes the completed proofs. Quadratic voting is the most important idea for l... - commune-app.herokuapp.com
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Space radiation may harm astronauts' brains: studyctvnews.ca
Flying people to deep space -- like Mars or an asteroid -- is high on NASA's wish list, but research on mice suggests that extended radiation exposure permanently harms the brain. -
The Man Who Beat HIV at Its Own Game for 30 Years - Issue 23: Dominoes - Nautilusnautil.us
For Kai Brothers, 1981 marked the beginning and the end of a golden era. That was the year he turned 19, moved to San Francisco to… -
Software and Mind: The Mechanistic Myth and Its Consequencessoftwareandmind.com
Software and Mind: The social and philosophical aspects of software, our software fallacies, and the ways in which software affects our minds.