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Personal names around the worldw3.org
W3C i18n article: How do people's names differ around the world, and what are the implications of those differences on the design of forms, databases, ontologies, etc. for the Web? -
Transgender Surgery Isn't the Solutionwsj.com
In The Wall Street Journal, Dr. Paul McHugh writes that a drastic physical change doesn't address underlying psycho-social troubles. -
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Vignettes of Famous Evolutionary Biologists, Large and Smallunz.com
Some of the following people are well worth remembering for their great achievements, and the way they did them; others are not. But all were well known in their time and exercised undue influence. I have already described the parallel cases of Ernst M... - mustapha.org
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Doing a Job - The Management Philosophy of Adm. Hyman G. Rickovergovleaders.org
Excerpt from a speech Adm. Hyman Rickover (1900-1986) gave at Columbia University in 1982 outlining his leadership style. - blog.golang.org
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Cratejoy - Success Engineerjobs.lever.co
Cratejoy is looking for a Support Engineer to help our merchants succeed. You'll be helping solve the types of problems that require an engineer to get involved. Questions or problems that are escalated from front tier support frequently require someon... -
The People Who Risk Jail to Maintain the Tor Networkmotherboard.vice.com
Some of the volunteers who keep the Tor network running are raided for their services. "Richard" was one of them. -
Is the universe a hologram?sciencedaily.com
The 'holographic principle,' the idea that a universe with gravity can be described by a quantum field theory in fewer dimensions, has been used for years as a mathematical tool in strange curved spaces. New results suggest that the holographic princip... -
DNA is a fractal antenna in electromagnetic fields. - PubMed - NCBIncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Int J Radiat Biol. 2011 Apr;87(4):409-15. doi: 10.3109/09553002.2011.538130. Epub 2011 Feb 28. -
When is proof by contradiction necessary?gowers.wordpress.com
It's been a while since I have written a post in the "somewhat philosophical" category, which is where I put questions like "How can one statement be stronger than an another, equivalent, statement... - scialex.github.io
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Announcing the refinement types librarynikita-volkov.github.io
Have you ever looked for a numeric type with a zero to hundred range to describe percentage? Maybe a zero to one to describe a proper fraction of something? A positive integer (without the zero) to enumerate something? A vector of a specific length? He... -
Take Nothing, Leave Nothinglaphamsquarterly.org
Seventeen hundred miles from what is customarily called civilization—in this case, the western shore of the Republic of South Africa—lies a tiny British-run volcanic island populated by fewer than thr - jrburke.com
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Inside Popcorn Time, the Piracy Party Hollywood Can't Stop | WIREDwired.com
Popcorn Time is giving away Hollywood’s most valuable content for free, and making that piracy easier than ever. -
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uProxy is a browser extension that makes it easy to setup and access proxy services for your trusted friends and family.