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Guest Post: 5 Chinese Ghost Cities That Came Alive - Koos Jansenbullionstar.com
By Wade Shepard from Vagabond Journey, @vagabondjourney Reports of the world’s most populated country having tens of millions of empty apartments and dozens of cities without people sounds like a sick twist of irony. But images of empty streets, barren... - varnish-cache.org
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How doctors choose to dietheguardian.com
Ken Murray: When faced with a terminal illness, medical professionals, who know the limits of modern medicine, often opt out of life-prolonging treatment -
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‘I Would Prefer Not To’: The Origins of the White Collar Workerblog.longreads.com
Before the Civil War, the clerk was "a small but unusual phenomenon." By the end of the 19th century, clerical workers were a social force to be reckoned with. This is the story of their rise. -
Uber: The Big Data Companyforbes.com
As I write this column, I am at my office on Main Street in San Francisco. When I’m done here, I’ll head back to my house in the Richmond District to pick up some luggage as I head to SFO. Then I’m off to JFK, my hotel in Midtown, 10 [...] - graphics.rwth-aachen.de
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Tech Bubble? Maybe, Maybe Nottechcrunch.com
I’ve heard people wonder if we’re in a bubble with regard to startups. Is it as bad as the 2000 dot-com bubble? Might it actually be worse? I thought it.. -
Why we run an open source program - Twitter // TODO: Talk openly, develop openlytodogroup.org
TODO: talk openly, develop openly. We believe we can better improve our open source programs - and our contributions to the open source movement as a whole - by working together. - google-opensource.blogspot.com
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The divine witches of cyberspaceboingboing.net
Fortune-telling games help us fumble toward deeper truths, at the junction of technology and mysticism - eli.thegreenplace.net
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Quantum experiment verifies Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance'phys.org
An experiment devised in Griffith University's Centre for Quantum Dynamics has for the first time demonstrated Albert Einstein's original conception of 'spooky action at a distance' using a single particle. - instasource.co
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Apple Acquires Durable Database Company FoundationDBtechcrunch.com
Apple has acquired FoundationDB, a company that specializes in speedy, durable NoSQL databases, TechCrunch has learned. A notice on the FoundationDB site.. -
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Finding Philae: Scientists race to contact probe on comet 67Pdailymail.co.uk
EXCLUSIVE: Rosetta mission manager Patrick Martin told MailOnline he is confident of making contact with Philae (shown approaching comet 67P) soon - but there is a race to do so before August. -
Better debuggernewsoffice.mit.edu
System to automatically find a common type of programming bug significantly outperforms its predecessors.