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Composing Your Thoughts - Issue 2: Uncertainty - Nautilusnautil.us
1. Unshaven and one bit shortTo death and taxes, Benjamin Franklin’s binary list of life’s certainties, add the expectation that… -
Java Ring: A Wearable Computer: Article by Jakob Nielsennngroup.com
The JavaRing, a piece of jewelry with 6 KB of RAM, was an early step towards wearable computers that integrate into our physical environment. -
The Digital Hunt for Duqu, a Dangerous and Cunning U.S.-Israeli Spy Virus - The Interceptfirstlook.org
In 2011, Hungarian security researchers found an exquisitely sophisticated and mysterious virus designed to render targeted computers wholly transparent to attackers. Its target: The infrastructure of trust that makes the internet work. -
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History of Computers and Computing, Mechanical calculators, Pioneers, Samuel Morlandhistory-computer.com
History of Computers and Computing, Mechanical calculators, Pioneers, Samuel Morland -
What the Heck Are Wallabies Doing in Ireland?smithsonianmag.com
Normally spotted in Australia, the marsupial species is thriving on a remote island off the Irish coast -
Immutable Infrastructure Realized: Fugue Computingluminal.com
We at Luminal are launching our new vision for computing by introducing <a href="Fugue">https://fugue.it/docs/gettingstarted">Fugue into beta distribution this week. Fugue embodies a set of core computing patterns that rely upon automating t... -
Just the Facts, Ma’am - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
What makes a book a history? In the eighteenth century, novelists called their books “histories,” smack on the title page. No one was more brash about this than Henry Fielding, who, in his 1749 “History of Tom Jones, a Foundling,” included a chapter ca... -
Why scraping and ecommerce are a perfect fitblog.twotap.com
Does it really work? If you’re new here, Two Tap is building an universal shopping cart by scraping retailer websites. We’re creating a global API for order injection and payments. Looking back on... -
Illustrations of Madness: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loompublicdomainreview.org
Mike Jay recounts the tragic story of James Tilly Matthews, a former peace activist of the Napoleonic Wars who was confined to London's notorious Bedlam asylum in 1797 for believing that his mind was under the control of the -
How to Study the Brainchronicle.com
Neuroscience is almost 200 years old. Why are there no grand theories of how the brain works? -
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Coming soon to Twitter | Twitter Blogsblog.twitter.com
A preview of some exciting improvements coming to Twitter in the coming months. -
Learning languages is a workout for brains, both young and old | Penn State Universitynews.psu.edu
Learning a new language changes your brain network both structurally and functionally, according to Penn State researchers. -
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How I Got Rejected From a Job at The Container Storecafe.com
What happens when, within a single 10-month period, you send a kid off to college, get separated from a 2+-decade marriage, are diagnosed with breast cancer, get hired and fired from a new job? -
Being Mortal: Atul Gawande’s Rx for How to End Our Lives - Facts So Romantic - Nautilusnautil.us
Rose Lincoln / Harvard News OfficeAtul Gawande sits across from me in a cafe in Berkeley, California, sipping an Izze fruit drink… -
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Great Data: it’s all in the delivery - Asana Engineering Blogeng.asana.com
Great data is about people, not numbers. It’s about driving smart decisions and motivating the right behavior in teammates. Great data is as much about delivery as it is about the data itself – because in the age of big data, getting numbers is easy…. ...
