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The Comandante’s Canal - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
Last June 15th, Daniel Ortega, the President of Nicaragua, held a ceremony in Managua to announce his newest and most audacious plan to help the country’s poor: a transoceanic canal, stretching from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific, a few hundred mile... -
Grad Student Rigs Cheap Alternative to Rival $1,000 Air Purifiers in Smog-Choked Chinascienceblog.com
During the winter of 2012-13, air pollution in Beijing was so bad scientists likened it to a nuclear winter. Thousands of people checked into hospitals with respiratory diseases caused by a thick, choking fog. The air has been so bad in Beijing that th... -
Timely – The Time Tracking App To End Time Trackingtimelyapp.com
Timely lets you schedule and log hours, simultaneously. By planning your hours in advance, time tracking will be automatically accounted for. It’s amazingly simple. -
Seven Habits of Highly Fraudulent Users - Sift Science Blogblog.siftscience.com
At Sift Science, we distill fraud signals in real-time from terabytes of data and more than a billion global events per month. At our “Cats N’ Hacks” Hackathon last week, I decided to put some of our fraud signals to the test. -
Mystery of the 'Cheshire Cat' of quantum physics solveddailymail.co.uk
Scientists from the Vienna University of Technology separated a neutron from its magnetic moment for the first time, like how the Cheshire Cat loses its smile (illustration shown). -
A +Pool in the East Rivernewyorker.com
Three guys decided they should build a floating pool that would neutralize the current and filter contaminants. -
Yet another super PAC is using big money to take on big moneywashingtonpost.com
Activists are continuing to embrace big-money vehicles to tamp down the influence of wealthy interests on campaigns. -
Movie Film, at Death's Door, Gets a Reprieveonline.wsj.com
A coalition of Hollywood movie studios is close to a deal to keep Eastman Kodak Co. in the business of producing movie film. -
Apple's CDN Now Live: Has Paid Deals With ISPs, Massive Capacity In Place - Dan Rayburn - StreamingMediaBlog.comblog.streamingmedia.com
Since last year, Apple's been hard at work building out their own CDN and now those efforts are paying off. Recently, Apple's CDN has gone live in the U.S. - resimit.com
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Epidemic: How the FDA Fails to Curb Antibiotic Overusehealthline.com
An Epidemic 37 Years in the Making: How the FDA Fails to Curb Antibiotic Overuse - helpful.io
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Search Areas for Jennifer Hustonjeremymorgan.com
This is a map to keep track of areas where people have searched for Jennifer Huston. Please add any areas you have searched. -
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Mitro Releases a New Free & Open Source Password Managereff.org
Good security practices require us to use different passwords for most or all of the websites and services we interact with. For accounts of any significance, those also need to be strong passwords of one form or another. But if you combine those two r... -
Mitro is joining Twitter and is now open sourcelabs.mitro.co
We’re excited to announce that the Mitro team is joining Twitter’s location team in New York, focusing on a variety of geo-related projects! As we transition to Twitter, we want to provide you with some updates on our product. Mitro is now open-source ... -
Capitalizing on Capitol Hill: Informed Trading by Hedge Fund Managers by Meng Gao, Jiekun Huang :: SSRNpapers.ssrn.com
This paper examines the hypothesis that hedge fund managers gain an informational advantage in securities trading through their connections with lobbyists. Usin -
Create your own machine learning powered RSS reader in under 30 minutesblog.algorithmia.com
As developers one of our biggest “problems” is our voracious appetite for news. From Twitter to HackerNews to the latest funding on TechCrunch, it seems, at times, we cannot avoid the gravitational pull of our favorite news feeds. I know, at least for ... -
Launching Helpful—A community-built productmedium.com
Ten months ago, Helpful was just an idea. Since @whatupdave’s first commit, 89 people have come together to plan, design… -
Disrupt to Bullshitchrome.google.com
Replaces various forms of the word 'disrupt' with various forms of the word 'bullshit,' in every web page.
