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What Sappho’s Poetry Sounded Like to the Ancient Greeks - The New Yorkernewyorker.com
Like Joni Mitchell or Bob Dylan, Sappho wrote her music as well as her lyrics, and performed her songs in public. -
3D printing titanium and the bin of broken dreamspencerw.com
Last December, in an industrial park in Cincinnati, I watched as Dave Bartosik set up a build platform on an EOS M280. The part he was printing is one that I began designing a full fourteen months earlier, before I had any idea of the intricacies of... - nsl.com
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Hans in the Land of Bardsthelandofbards.com
This is a story about an absentminded tailor and his quick-witted accomplice who struggle to escape a land where things aren’t always what they seem. During the journey, our protagonist is exposed to some fundamental concepts that are ... -
Coke as a sensible snack? Coca-Cola works with dietitians who suggest cola as snackstartribune.com
NEW YORK — Coca-Cola is working with fitness and nutrition experts who suggest its soda as a treat at a time when the world's biggest beverage maker is being blamed for helping to fuel obesity rates - telehack.com
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Software Developer for Quantum Processor Development group, D-Wave Systems, Vancouver, British Columbialispjobs.wordpress.com
D-Wave is seeking an experienced Software Developer to join the Processor Development group. The successful candidate will work closely with physicists to develop and optimize measurement routines ... -
Awakeningtheatlantic.com
Since its introduction in 1846, anesthesia has allowed for medical miracles. Limbs can be removed, tumors examined, organs replaced—and a patient will feel and remember nothing. Or so we choose to believe. In reality, tens of thousands of patients each... -
Why Icicles Look the Way They Donytimes.com
An atlas, not surprisingly out of Canada, documents the drip, drip, drip that determines those curious and beautiful shapes. -
Memories Weaken Without Reinforcement, Study Findsnytimes.com
A report shows that people’s ability to remember something and the pattern of brain activity that thing generates both appear to diminish when a competing memory gets stronger. -
Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens - IEEE Spectrumspectrum.ieee.org
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Take Thomas Edison’s 146-Question Knowledge Test He Gave to Prospective Employees (1921)openculture.com
I remember opening my college newspaper one day, and out of it fell what looked like an advertising supplement of unusually utilitarian design. Upon closer inspection, it contained a series of math-y looking problems for the reader to work out and, if ... -
Network theory suggests consciousness is global in the brain | KurzweilAIkurzweilai.net
The black dots correspond to the 264 areas of the cerebral cortex that the researchers studied; the lines correspond to the increased strength of the -
First Photo From Spaceairspacemag.com
In 1946, rocket-borne cameras gave us our first look at Earth from beyond the atmosphere -
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Universal Robots UR3 Arm Is Small and Nimble, Helps to Build Copies of Itself - IEEE Spectrumspectrum.ieee.org
One application this robot is already helping with: making more robots
