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Cheap Drinking Water From The Sun, Aided By A Pop Of Pencil Shavingsnpr.org
Engineers have developed a low-cost material that efficiently sterilizes and desalinates water using only solar energy. The secret to the new technology is likely sitting right on your desk. -
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Two Cities With Blazing Internet Speed Search for a Killer Appnytimes.com
Both Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., have Google Fiber, a high-speed fiber-optic network, and are having a hard time figuring out what to do with so much power. -
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Concorde question - PPRuNe Forumspprune.org
Considering the era in which the Concorde was produced I am curious as to why there was no APU fitted. It would seem to have been quite an -
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Scaling Redis at Twitteryoutube.com
Twitter runs some of the largest Redis clusters in production. To adapt Redis to Twitter's use cases, we have come up with both configuration best practices ... -
websrvr - Deploy your websites to a CDN using dropbox in a jiffy.app.websrvr.in
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Surface Tension • Damn Interestingdamninteresting.com
Low-pressure weather systems are a familiar feature of the winter climate in the northern Atlantic. While they often drive wind, rain, and other unpleasant - english.illinois.edu
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Scala founder: Language due for 'fundamental rethink'infoworld.com
The Scala road map has three upgrades planned, with a simpler, more modular language set as the end goal -
How Andreessen Horowitz Is Disrupting Silicon Valleymedium.com
Just over the crest of the highest point on Sand Hill Road, amid a cluster of relaxed buildings that could easily pass a… -
To Make Streets Safe, Make Them Dangeroustheamericanconservative.com
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How to see into the future - FT.comft.com
Irving Fisher was once the most famous economist in the world. Some would say he was the greatest economist who ever lived. “Anywhere from a decade to two generations ahead of his time,” opined the first Nobel laureate economist Ragnar Frisch, in -
Axioms.IO | Making a Big Differenceaxioms.io
Axiom Zen is working with Timeline.com on a very ambitious new project to present a unique perspective on current events by providing important historical context. Of the many exciting technologies we are using to achieve this goal, the most challengin... -
Praise feels good, but negativity is stronger – Jacob Burak – Aeonaeon.co
Humans are wired for bad news, angry faces and sad memories. Is this negativity bias useful or something to overcome? -
WHO Ebola Drug Panel: Use Survivor Serum To Treat Ebola Victimsforbes.com
Preliminary reports from a closed, two-day WHO conference on experimental Ebola drugs favors already-planned vaccine safety trials. But the panel also encouraged the immediate use of blood products from Ebola survivors in fighting infections in affecte... -
The Making Of FrankenCamerafrankencamera.wordpress.com
INTRODUCTION About a year ago I was awarded a generous amount of money from the Arkwright scholarship fund with which I decided to take a good old film camera and 'digitise it' using components tak... -
Bitcoin Exchange CEO Pleads Guilty to Enabling Silk Road Drug Deals | Threat Level | WIREDwired.com
The former CEO of a top Bitcoin exchange and one of his customers pled guilty today in Manhattan on charges relating to operating an unlicensed money exchange that provided Bitcoins to customers buying illegal drugs on Silk Road. -
Open-Source Service Discovery - Jason Wilder's Blogjasonwilder.com
Service discovery is a key component of most distributed systems and service oriented architectures. The problem seems simple at first: How do …