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The US Now Has More Solar Workers Than Coal Minersbusinessinsider.com
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Deconstructing Fizz Buzz With Flip-Flops in Ruby - Julian’s Blogjuliansimioni.com
Ruby is small. If it’s not your first programming language, picking up all the basic syntax in a weekend isn’t out of the question. I& … -
More from the Sony Pictures hack: budgets, layoffs, HR scripts, and 3,800 social security numbersfusion.net
Yesterday, I reported on a spreadsheet apparently taken from Sony Pictures Entertainment, one of the largest and most powerful studios in Hollywood, by a group of hackers calling themselves Guardians of Peace. The document, which listed the names, titl... -
A CEMETERY THAT SHOWED THE WAYmoreintelligentlife.com
Built to Last: in the first in a new series about what makes a durable design, Kieron Long champions Skogskyrkogården, a Swedish cemetery that fused the classical and the modern -
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The Open-Office Trap - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
In 1973, my high school, Acton-Boxborough Regional, in Acton, Massachusetts, moved to a sprawling brick building at the foot of a hill. Inspired by architectural trends of the preceding decade, the classrooms in one of its wings didn’t have doors. The ... - yseam.com
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European probe shoots down dark-matter claimsnature.com
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Dürer's polyhedron: 5 theories that explain Melencolia's crazy cubetheguardian.com
Mathematician Günter M Ziegler looks at art history’s most infamous truncated triangular trapezohedron -
Bluetooth Now Smarter and Faster to Enable IoT | Bluetooth Technology Websitebluetooth.com
Introducing Bluetooth 4.2. New Core Specification makes Bluetooth Smart smarter, faster and the ideal technology for the Internet of Things. Check out the features and benefits and the team who put it all together. -
Extending Van Gogh’s Starry Night with Inpainting—Wolfram Blogblog.wolfram.com
Digital inpainting can extend or repair photos, artwork, and other images. See how it works in the Wolfram Language, and try it yourself. -
Why has human progress ground to a halt? – Michael Hanlon – Aeonaeon.co
Some of our greatest cultural and technological achievements took place between 1945 and 1971. Why has progress stalled? -
Napoleon’s Guide to Improperly Using Cryptographywondersandmarvels.com
By Sarah Giordano (Guest Contributor) For all his military genius, the one idea that Napoleon could not quite seem to grasp was the importance of cryptography. Most prominently, this failing was se... -
The Weight of Guiltgrantland.com
Death, disgrace, and a handful of knockers: inside the secret world of competitive bass fishing cheaters. -
I Asked My North Korean Students to Write Critical Essays. They All Chose America as Their Topic.slate.com
Adapted from Without You, There Is No Us: My Time With the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim. Out now from Crown Publishers. Essay was a much-dreaded word among my students. It was the fall of 2011, and I was teaching English at Pyongyang Univers... -
Fialka: The Bigger, Better, Russian Enigmawondersandmarvels.com
By Matthew Gu (Guest Contributor) The nuclear capabilities of the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War were no small matter. A single attack could, in theory, escalate all the way... -
Building the promo video for Loose Leaf | Wulfwelcome.totheinter.net
For any other indie devs out there wondering what its like to hire out a promo video, I wanted to share my experience working with Josh at Bluepic Studios on -
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