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Like Humans, Apes Make Irrational Economic Decisionstheatlantic.com
New research suggests that choice biases, such as loss aversion, might be evolutionarily ancient. -
From massive supercomputers come tiniest transistorsphys.org
A relentless global effort to shrink transistors has made computers continually faster, cheaper and smaller over the last 40 years. This effort has enabled chipmakers to double the number of transistors on a chip roughly every 18 months—a trend referre... - jobs.lever.co
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America's Original Space Program Is Turning 100motherboard.vice.com
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was originally the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. - blackmuttmedia.com
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Human gene found to increase tolerance to arsenic - Uppsala University, Swedenuu.se
Studies conducted at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden show that some indigenous groups in the Andes of northern Argentina have increased resistance to arsenic. The researchers also identified the gene that underlies the altered me... -
The voices in my head: Eleanor Longden's 'psychic civil war'theguardian.com
Longden, who was a student when she started hearing voices, tells Jon Ronson about turning the story into a TED talk -
Cockroaches made to follow directions via wireless nerve stimulationphys.org
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers at Texas A&M University has found a way to control the path a cockroach takes as it walks using wireless technology. In their paper published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, the team, made up of mechanica... - bloomberg.com
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Quantity Queries for CSSalistapart.com
In responsive design, we think a lot about space, especially in the context of screen sizes. But the amount of content or the number of elements is bound to affect space, too, just as unpredictably—and if we don’t want our designs to dictate our conten... -
Instagram Starts Letting Ads Be Clickabletechcrunch.com
Instagram never allowed URLs to open, until now. It wanted people browsing photos, not the web. But Instagram says its advertisers demanded more vivid ways to.. -
A telescope that tells you when to look upsymmetrymagazine.org
The LSST system will alert scientists to changes in space in near-real time. -
Guide to automating a multi-tiered application securely on AWS with Docker and Terraformairpair.com
A technical guide for building a closed private network on AWS and establish a secure way to access network resources, using a trusted VPN -
The Drug Cartels' IT Guymotherboard.vice.com
The story of Felipe Peréz, a communications specialist reportedly kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel, and forced into a shadow hacker squad that engineers the gang's hidden radio network. -
What happened to all the non-programmers?benkuhn.net
“As I looked around and realized for the hundredth time that I was surrounded by people exactly like me, something inside me snapped. I downloaded the latest American Community Survey microdata, fired up R and started calculating feverishly.” - code.google.com
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YC Backed Gradberry Curates Technical Talenttechcrunch.com
Gradberry is launching today out of Y Combinator to connect companies with vetted technical talent. Candidates quickly build a talent profile, connecting..