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How conductors keep getting better at 90spectator.co.uk
‘It’s a bad week. I gather we’ve lost one.’ Sir Neville Marriner, himself a huge name, is talking about the death of one of the world’s top conductors. Lorin Maazel,… - christophermeiklejohn.com
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Essays in English yield information about other languagesnewsoffice.mit.edu
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ifweassume.com
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The Stagnating Job Market for Young Scientistsslate.com
Young scientists spend most of their work lives gathering and crunching data. So it seems especially unfair that when it comes to the job hunt, they’re forced to fly mostly blind. Ph.D. programs don’t usually track their graduates’ employment outcomes.... -
You Are Not Latemedium.com
Can you imagine how awesome it would have been to be an entrepreneur in 1985 when almost any dot com name you wanted was… -
Eugene Kleiner — Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byerskpcb.com
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Lawsuit Filed To Prove Happy Birthday Is In The Public Domain; Demands Warner Pay Back Millions Of License Fees | Techdirttechdirt.com
Happy Birthday remains the most profitable song ever. Every year, it is the song that earns the highest royalty rates, sent to Warner/Chappell Music (which makes millions per year from "licensing" the song). However, as we've been... -
Lawsuit: "Happy Birthday" is not in copyright, and Warner owes the world hundreds of millions for improperly collected royaltiesboingboing.net
Copyright scholars have long been pretty certain that "Happy Birthday to You" is in the public domain, despite the fact that Warner/Chappell claims copyright on it and charges impressive licensing fees to use it in public performances. -
L.A.'s Skid Row Through the Eyes of Pimps, Prostitutes, Dealers and Dope Fiends (VIDEO)laweekly.com
See also: L.A.'s Culture War Over the Last True Skid Row in America The first night Australian filmmaker Shanks Rajendran visited Skid Row, he nearly got the crap beaten out of him. As he sat in his car at 5th and Maple, shooting thr... -
Why Killing Cash is Key to MasterCard’s Competitive Strategyknowledge.wharton.upenn.edu
MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga talks about the company’s competitive strategy, including its aim to move more of the world’s purchases from cash to digital. -
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Django 1.7 release candidate 2 | Weblog | Djangodjangoproject.com
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How easy it is to organize a Free Software Conferencejestinjoy.github.io
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Our new robot overlords: The terrifying uncertainty of our high-tech futuresalon.com
Are computers taking our jobs? -
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Telescope Puzzlemathsisfun.com
Math explained in easy language, plus puzzles, games, quizzes, worksheets and a forum. For K-12 kids, teachers and parents. -
The Majority Of Today’s App Businesses Are Not Sustainable | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Though the app stores continue to fill up with ever more mobile applications, the reality is that most of these are not sustainable businesses. According to a.. -
Game about Squaresgameaboutsquares.com
A little HTML5 puzzle game that takes a few seconds to take off and a few hours to beat. Playable right in the browser, including mobile -
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