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The Genius and Faith of Faraday and Maxwellthenewatlantis.com
The religious commitments of the great scientists are often dismissed as vestiges of more superstitious times. Ian H. Hutchinson offers a window into the intellectual and religious lives of the two greatest nineteenth-century electricians and shows how... -
The name of the fungus | Science Newssciencenews.org
A rebellion has broken out against the traditional way of naming species in the peculiar, shape-shifting world of fungi. -
Tales of C++ - Interludetalesofcpp.fusionfenix.com
One year down the road, 2014 has gone by but not without modifications to the C++ lands. C++14 was completed, and Clang has already reached full conformance! But it's not the end of the road, while the Technical Specification (TS) documents continue to... -
This year, I resolve to ban laptops from my classroomwashingtonpost.com
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HomeControlselfcoded.com
Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod touch and iPad are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. © Matthias Hochgatterer - entire.spacebar.org
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Don’t Write Off ET Quite Yet - Issue 101: In Our Nature - Nautilusnautil.us
Here’s a riddle. We’ve never seen any, and we don’t know if they exist, but we think about them, debate them, and shout at each… -
CIA takes blame for more than half of UFO sightings in late 1950s and 60sventurebeat.com
Because U-2 planes flew higher than thought possible, many who saw them said they spotted alien spaceships. That was a highlight of the agency's ten most-read documents of 2014. - mail.openjdk.java.net
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nateberkopec/gist:11dbcf0ee7f2c08450eagist.github.com
RubySpec is dead, long live RubySpec! - Gist is a simple way to share snippets of text and code with others. - avc.com
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Target’s ‘Annie’ ads spark controversy, prompt petition over lack of diversitydavidseymouriii.blog.com
More than 10,000 people have signed a Change.org petition calling for the company to remove ads that feature white girls as Annie. The character from the movie musical released Dec. ... -
BMJ Blogs: The BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Smith: Dying of cancer is the best deathblogs.bmj.com
Luis Buñuel, filmmaker, surrealist, iconoclast, moralist, and revolutionary, thought a lot about death. “Sometimes,” he wrote in 1982, a year before he died at 83, “I think the quicker the better—like the death of my friend Max Aub, who died all of a s... - substack.net
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