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On a brother’s suicide: ‘I wish I had never told him to go to counseling’washingtonpost.com
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How 17th Century Fraud Gave Rise To Bright Orange Cheesenpr.org
Kraft says it's ditching two artificial dyes in some of its macaroni and cheese products. But why did we start coloring cheeses orange to begin with? Turn's out there's a curious history here. -
Drought Frames Economic Divide of Californiansnytimes.com
The persistent water shortage is illustrating parallel worlds in which wealthy communities guzzle water as poorer neighbors conserve by necessity. - perltricks.com
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How big companies are stopping Congress from fixing the patent systemvox.com
Congress is focusing on trolls, while ignoring deeper problems with the patent system. - aholme.co.uk
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The search for the lost Cray supercomputer OSgigaom.com
Chris Fenton and Andras Tantos decided they wanted a model of the famed supercomputer for their desk. It turned out to be a more complicated project than expected. -
DragonBox - Discover the game of Mathdragonboxapp.com
DragonBox - the game that secretly teaches math! Now everyone can have fun learning algebra from age 8 and up. -
Blue Originblueorigin.com
Earth, in all its beauty, is just our starting place. We are of Blue Origin, and here is where it begins. - netdrive.net
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GPU-accelerated video playback with NetBSD on the Raspberry Picambus.net
Hardware accelerated video playback with NetBSD on the Raspberry Pi using OMXPlayer - hotchips.org
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What do we do with SMIL?birtles.wordpress.com
Earlier this week, Blink announced its intention to deprecate SMIL. I thought they were going to replace their native implementation with a Javascript one so this was a surprise to me. Prompted by ... -
Longread: Inside the New A.I. from the Siri Guysesquire.com
The guys who made SIRI are on the verge of releasing Viv, a way of optimizing the Internet that could make you far more intelligent and capable.