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The onrushing waveeconomist.com
IN 1930, when the world was “suffering…from a bad attack of economic pessimism”, John Maynard Keynes wrote a broadly optimistic essay, “Economic... -
The true true size of Africaeconomist.com
LAST month Kai Krause, a computer-graphics guru, caused a stir with a map entitled "The True Size of Africa", which showed the outlines of other countries crammed... -
Plancake Blog - Plancake is shutting downplancake.com
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Outstanding photos of the X-15, the fastest manned aircraft ever madesploid.gizmodo.com
While the Blackbird SR-71 was the fastest manned airplane ever made, the fastest manned aircraft is the North American X-15, a rocket plane that flew for the first time on June 8, 1959, launched from a NASA NB-52B mothership. On October 1967 it pulveri... -
Idris: Type safe printfyoutube.com
Demonstrating creation of a type safe printf function using Idris, a dependently typed programming language. The result is here: https://gist.github.com/puff... -
Revisiting The Black Cauldron, the movie that almost killed Disney animation.slate.com
In 1985, a single movie almost killed Disney animation. With an announced budget of $25 million—later accounts place it closer to $40 million— The Black Cauldron was at the time the most expensive animated film ever made. Based on Lloyd Alexander's fan... -
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Is the IKEA Aesthetic Comfy or Creepy?newyorker.com
Lauren Collins on the world of IKEA. “The company’s vision, one executive said, is ‘to create a better life for the many.’ ” -
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The Slow Death of ‘Do Not Track’nytimes.com
The F.T.C. outsourced its job to industry. The victim: Your privacy. -
He Was Present at the Birth of Punk, and He Took Notesnytimes.com
From the Doors to the Ramones, Danny Fields witnessed a revolution from the inside, and kept records. -
How movies embraced Hinduism (without you even noticing)theguardian.com
From Interstellar to the Matrix and Star Wars the venerable religion has been the driving philosophy behind many hit movies. Why? - cs.stanford.edu
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Chicago gave hundreds of high-risk kids a summer job. Violent crime arrests plummeted.washingtonpost.com
Research shows that a summer job program cut violent crime arrests by 43 percent. -
Psychologists strike a blow for reproducibilitynature.com
Thirty-six labs collaborate to check 13 earlier findings. -
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