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What are some significant scientific achievements (or breakthroughs) that have taken place this year (2014)? - Quoraquora.com
Answer 1 of 3: In December of this year a DNA analysis of human remains was completed. Those remains were conclusively determined to be those of King Richard... -
Managing Difficult Decisions in Medicine with the 40-70 Rulepaulsufka.com
“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” — Tony Robbins The ability to make difficult decisions is the mark of an effective physician. While decisions in medicine can... - pastes.archbsd.net
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The case against human rights | Eric Posnertheguardian.com
The long read: Many believe that international human rights law is one of our greatest moral achievements. But there is little evidence that it is effective. A radically different approach is long overdue -
Credit for Reddit | MIT Admissionsmitadmissions.org
Aug 29, 2014 — There's a story my mother likes to tell about the time, soon after I began first grade, she received a polite but concerned note from my teacher. Evidently, when my time to show-and-tell had arrived, I read aloud from a library book... -
Can You Solve Walter Benjamin’s Brainteasers?theparisreview.org
From 1927 to 1933, the German literary critic had a radio show for children. The broadcast transcripts are now available in English—this one is full of riddles. -
The Fallacy of Placing Confidence in Confidence Intervals - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Scienceandrewgelman.com
Richard Morey writes: On the tail of our previous paper about confidence intervals, showing that researchers tend to misunderstand the inferences one can draw from CIs, we [Morey, Rink Hoekstra, Jeffrey Rouder, Michael Lee, and EJ Wagenmakers] have ano... -
How Data From The Kepler Space Telescope Is Changing The Drake Equationmedium.com
Many of the parameters in the Drake equation could only be guessed at…until now -
Digital Marketing Director job at SmartAsset in New York, NYjobscore.com
Digital Marketing Director open job details at SmartAsset, Marketing department, in New York, NY -
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The pilots of Instagram: beautiful views from the cockpit, violating rules of the airqz.com
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This: Why Atlantic Media is funding a social platform for sharing links, one at a timeniemanlab.org
Andrew Golis wanted to build a network for sharing stories that would provide relief from our contemporary content cascade. - pinker.wjh.harvard.edu
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Dec 12: FastMail's MySQL Replication: Multi-Master, Fault Tolerance, Performance. Pick Any Threeblog.fastmail.com
This blog post is part of the FastMail 2014 Advent Calendar. The previous post on 11th December was from our support team. Stay tuned for another post tomorrow. Technical level: medium For those wh... -
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America’s police on trialeconomist.com
THE store camera tells a harrowing tale. John Crawford was standing in a Walmart in Ohio holding an air rifle—a toy he had picked off a shelf and was presumably... -
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