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A Cheap, Ubiquitous Earthquake Warning System - IEEE Spectrumspectrum.ieee.org
A Silicon Valley company sets out to prove that earthquake-warning systems can easy to set up, effective, and cheap enough for Nepal -
Five Disturbing Things You Didn't Know About Forensic "Science" - The Interceptfirstlook.org
The FBI’s review of flawed hair analysis — its largest-ever post-conviction evaluation of questionable forensic evidence — is just the tip of the iceberg. -
The Skyrim mod that's also a job applicationgamasutra.com
For Alexander Velicky, there's only one studio that he wants to work for -- and he's put thousands of hours of work into a single mod for one of their games. -
Michael Botticelli Is a Drug Czar Who Knows Addiction Firsthandnytimes.com
He is the first person in substance-abuse recovery to hold the position of director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. -
The 18th Century four-minute mile - BBC Newsbbc.co.uk
Roger Bannister was credited with being the first person to run a mile in under four minutes - but 18th Century runners are reported to have got there first. -
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The Rise and Fall of the Hotel Mini-Barpriceonomics.com
The hotel mini-bar is a dying breed. But will anyone really miss $6 water bottles and $13 bags of cashews? -
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The Bug Whisperer - Craftsmanship Magazinecraftsmanship.net
Mark Sturges, whose clients have to find him by word of mouth, has become a master of an agricultural art as old as agriculture itself: basic compost. -
Personal names around the worldw3.org
W3C i18n article: How do people's names differ around the world, and what are the implications of those differences on the design of forms, databases, ontologies, etc. for the Web? -
Transgender Surgery Isn't the Solutionwsj.com
In The Wall Street Journal, Dr. Paul McHugh writes that a drastic physical change doesn't address underlying psycho-social troubles. -
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Vignettes of Famous Evolutionary Biologists, Large and Smallunz.com
Some of the following people are well worth remembering for their great achievements, and the way they did them; others are not. But all were well known in their time and exercised undue influence. I have already described the parallel cases of Ernst M... - mustapha.org
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Doing a Job - The Management Philosophy of Adm. Hyman G. Rickovergovleaders.org
Excerpt from a speech Adm. Hyman Rickover (1900-1986) gave at Columbia University in 1982 outlining his leadership style. - blog.golang.org
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Cratejoy - Success Engineerjobs.lever.co
Cratejoy is looking for a Support Engineer to help our merchants succeed. You'll be helping solve the types of problems that require an engineer to get involved. Questions or problems that are escalated from front tier support frequently require someon... -
The People Who Risk Jail to Maintain the Tor Networkmotherboard.vice.com
Some of the volunteers who keep the Tor network running are raided for their services. "Richard" was one of them. -
Is the universe a hologram?sciencedaily.com
The 'holographic principle,' the idea that a universe with gravity can be described by a quantum field theory in fewer dimensions, has been used for years as a mathematical tool in strange curved spaces. New results suggest that the holographic princip...