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The Naturalist and the Neurologist: On Charles Darwin and James Crichton-Brownepublicdomainreview.org
Stassa Edwards explores Charles Darwin's photography collection, which included almost forty portraits of mental patients given to him by the neurologist James Crichton-Browne. The study of these photographs, and the related correspondence between the ... -
Typography in 8 bits: System fonts » DamienGdamieng.com
My love of typography originated in the 80’s with the golden years of 8-bit home computing and their 8×8 pixel mono-spaced fonts on low-resolution displays. It’s quite easy to find bitmap copies of these fonts and also scalable traced TTF versions but ... -
Frank Lloyd Wright Tried to Solve the City - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
Frank Lloyd Wright hated cities. He thought that they were cramped and crowded, stupidly designed, or, more often, built without any sense of design at all. He once wrote, “To look at the plan of a great City is to look at something like the cross-sect... - makezine.com
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Computers See Your Face as a Child. Will They Recognize You as an Adult?nextgov.com
As facial recognition systems improve, they will get better at identifying people at different ages, even very young children. - chrisdone.com
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WW2 with Richard T Williamssoundcloud.com
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Organic Fashion: Inside the Lab That Grows Clothing - Modern Farmermodernfarmer.com
Can't find those perfect summer shoes in stores? Try brewing your own pair at home. -
Joshua Norton, Emperor of the United Statespriceonomics.com
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Scaling PhantomJS With Ghost Town - The Buzzvil Blogblog.buzzvil.com
My first project at Buzzvil was to develop a system to reliably render images at scale with PhantomJS. The result of my efforts was Ghost Town: simple queued & clustered PhantomJS processing in a tiny Node.js module. Problem PhantomJS is not an eas... -
Absolute Zero is 0K • Damn Interestingdamninteresting.com
Victorian scientists struggle to reach and understand the vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly cold universe at Absolute Zero. - pastebin.com
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The Disappearance of Conservative Commencement Speakersfivethirtyeight.com
Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice recently pulled out of giving the commencement address at Rutgers University after students protested. Rice was just the latest would-be commencement spea...