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Netflix takes up 9.5% of upstream traffic on the North American Internetarstechnica.com
ACK packets make Netflix an upload monster during peak viewing hours. -
How 3-D Printing Is Changing Medicinenewyorker.com
It’s already being used to manufacture human tissue; could a whole organ be next? Jerome Groopman reports. - stevenedouard.com
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Personhood Week: When Dead Bodies Become Dead Peoplephenomena.nationalgeographic.com
It’s Personhood Week here on Only Human. Today’s installment is about what it means to give a name to a dead body. Monday's post was about conception, and yesterday's about the age of majority. Tom... - coteditor.com
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On HTML5 and the Group That Rules the Webnewyorker.com
Billions of humans will use the Web over the next decade, yet very few of those people are in a position to define what is “the Web” and what isn’t. -
Obama likely to expand a foreign-student pipeline the high-tech industry loveswashingtonpost.com
President Obama is likely to announce Thursday night that he's expanding a program that acts as a pipeline for foreign students into the U.S. workforce -- a program that has been controversial on both sides of the political aisle. -
The Ugly Battle Over Who Really Discovered the First Earth-Like Planet | WIREDwired.com
No one knows what the planet Gliese 667Cc looks like. We know that it is about 22 light-years from Earth, a journey of lifetimes upon lifetimes. But no one can say whether it is a world like ours, with oceans and life, cities and single-malt Scotch. On... -
You can’t get entangled without a wormholenewsoffice.mit.edu
MIT physicist finds the creation of entanglement simultaneously gives rise to a wormhole. -
Why I hate (and love) visualizations of mathematics • Jeremy Kunj2kun.svbtle.com
I have a love-hate relationship with visualizations of mathematical ideas. Let’s say I’m trying to learn about a difficult mathematical concept. For this example I’ll use Markov chains because I recently saw a highly-appreciated... | Jeremy Kun | ∈ Mat... - bbc.com
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FQXi Communityfqxi.org
FQXi catalyzes, supports, and disseminates research on questions at the foundations of physics and cosmology, particularly new frontiers and innovative ideas integral to a deep understanding of reality, but unlikely to be supported by conventional fund... - gmailblog.blogspot.com
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Datalog at Playyetanalytics.com
By Milt Reder This past weekend the Yet Analytics dev team took home the sponsor prize from Lookingglass Cyber Solutions for our clojurescript project at the third Baltimore Hackathon. Lookingglass' challenge provides a UI (in Om) and a messaging sy...