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Your body, the battery: Powering gadgets from human “biofuel”arstechnica.com
If our bodies burn 2,000-2,500 calories per day anyway, that could power a smartphone. - humdi.net
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How a first crack cocaine offense led to a life sentencewashingtonpost.com
Sharanda Jones is one of thousands of federal prisoners who can only get out if Obama commutes her sentence. -
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Currying in JavaScriptmedium.com
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about functional programming, and I thought it might be kind of fun to walk through the … - shop.gluglug.org.uk
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After Years of Drought, Wildfires Rage in Californianytimes.com
The drought in the western United States has contributed to a devastating start to fire season. -
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Innovators are killing us: Instead of reinventing housing or transit, they bring us companies like Airbnb and Ubersalon.com
Innovation leaves structures intact, developing new processes to monetize the dysfunctional systems we already have -
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What Makes a Developer Truly Professionalembeddeduse.com
QA finds many bugs that are very easy to catch. Builds contain warnings and runs error messages and even violated assertions. Coding guidelines and good coding practices are ignored. Unit tests are... -
What it’s like to write speeches for a rude, rambling and disgraced politicianwashingtonpost.com
Barton Swaim's "The Speechwriter," on his years working for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, is destined to be a classic of political communication. -
The Magazine of the Southwesttheparisreview.org
From Desert’s masthead.Nicole’s staff pick from earlier today reminded me: I’ve been meaning to draw attention to the riches of archive.org’s Magazine Rack, a clearinghouse for defunct, forgotten, and abstruse periodicals from decades past. Anyone inte... -
Five Major Risks to Flying in Asiagraphics.wsj.com
Asia is the world’s fastest-growing aviation market. But experts worry the continent is ill-equipped to handle the increasing traffic. -
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