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Gaza is the only place the world forgets about (or pretends to forget about)mondoweiss.net
‘Look where the world is and where we are!’ an exclamation I very frequently heard at home, and even expressed myself at some points. Going out to this world though, makes this thought invalid. It is a world where a major concern is offering dogs a bet... -
Facebook tinkered with users’ feeds for a massive psychology experimentavclub.com
Scientists at Facebook have published a paper showing that they manipulated the content seen by more than 600,000 users in an attempt to determine whether this would affect their emotional state. The paper, “Experimental evidence of massive-sc... -
Google Replaces MapReduce With New Hyper-Scale Cloud Analytics Systemdatacenterknowledge.com
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Watch This Film About Why Aaron Swartz Matters More Than Ever | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Aaron Swartz was a young, bright genius who believed in the open Internet. A self-made millionaire by the age of 19, he co-founded Reddit, was part of the.. -
What Your Cell Phone Can't Tell the Policenewyorker.com
Prosecutors, judges, and even defense attorneys often overestimate the precision of cell-phone location records. - bryanstern.github.io
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Why Are LEGO Sets Expensive? | Science Blogs | WIREDwired.com
Why are Lego sets expensive? Wired Science blogger Rhett Allain explains why even if a set had no pieces in it, the set would still cost $6. -
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The rich can stop worrying about a middle-class revolutionfinance.yahoo.com
A self-described "zillionaire" warns that mobs will target the rich if the economy doesn't improve. -
New Data Shows FBI Issued More Than 19k National Security Letters in 2013 | Threatpost | The first stop for security newsthreatpost.com
The FBO issued more than 19,000 national security letters in 2013. -
Think Twice: How the Gut's "Second Brain" Influences Mood and Well-Beingscientificamerican.com
The emerging and surprising view of how the enteric nervous system in our bellies goes far beyond just processing the food we eat -
Using the Go Programming Language in Practice - Lund Universitylunduniversity.lu.se
Cutting edge, world leading, research is carried out in a wide range of subjects including medicine,nano technology, synchrotron radiation, geo sciences and environmental sciences. -
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San Francisco Would Be a Better City With Twice as Many Peopleslate.com
California is an earthly paradise. Yet there is something badly broken about the Golden State. At its best, California is America’s America, where the young and adventurous go for a fresh start. The trouble is that housing in much of California has bec... -
Teenage Haskelltwdkz.wordpress.com
I've been inspired by the efforts of others (Chris Smith, Manuel Chakravarty) to try teaching children haskell as a first experience of programming. Haskell has a reputation of being a "hard&q... -
Open Diversity Dataopendiversitydata.org
List of companies who have released data about their employee diversity, including EEO-1 forms. -
Google Just Made Big Data Expertise Much Tougher to Fakebusinessweek.com
Now that Google has rendered Hadoop passé by putting forth its Cloud Dataflow service, data analysis “experts” will have to work harder