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A new biography of the most famous American of his time: Mark Twainwashingtonpost.com
Roy Morris Jr.’s ‘American Vandal’ focuses on the years the Huck Finn author spent abroad. - innocuous.org
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Doctor Fortran in "The Future of Fortran" | Intel® Developer Zonesoftware.intel.com
In November 2014, I led a session at SC14 (the event formerly known as “Supercomputing”) titled “The Future of Fortran”. I invited representatives from other vendors and members of the Fortran standards committee to participate, and had some accept, bu... -
By gum, the West is wrong about Singaporebusinesstimes.com.sg
When a country in this region is lauded for its “charm”, it usually means that its people have a touch-and-go relationship with indoor plumbing. Read more at The Business Times. - leb.net
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Ellen Pao loses sexism case against Silicon Valley firmbbc.com
A California jury has found that a venture capital firm did not discriminate against a female employee in a closely watched case in Silicon Valley. - exploit-exercises.com
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Catch a Fish - GO=C800:5go.c800colon5.com
Some time back in the ‘80s, I decided I needed a new fishing reel. I spent a couple days of summer vacation fishing with my older cousin, and he& … -
Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmastersmnot.net
Covers the how's and why's of Web caching for people who publish on the Web. With FAQs. -
Why Do Severed Goat Heads Keep Turning Up in Brooklyn?nymag.com
Some say it’s a strange religious ritual. Others, a prank. I went on a quest to find the answer. - edit.ramarchy.com
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The Lincoln Memorial could have been a pyramid. See all the forgotten proposals.vox.com
One hundred years ago, work on the Lincoln Memorial began. These pictures show how different it could have been. - arxiv.org
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Jupiter Is a Garden of Storms - Issue 22: Slow - Nautilusnautil.us
It’s always a mistake to read,” Philip Marcus, a computational physicist and a professor in the mechanical engineering department… -
Zeno's Paradox and Planck Unitsrphv.net
Zeno of Elea was a Greek philosopher of the 5th century BC. Besides having a righteous name, Zeno was one of the first thinkers to explore the (somewhat) counter-intuitive idea of a limiting proces...