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A Satellite View of River Width : Image of the Dayearthobservatory.nasa.gov
As they prepare for a satellite that will measure the height and areal extent of rivers in unprecedented detail, hydrologists have released a better map of North American river widths. -
symmetrymagazine.org
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flowbat.com
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Sick kids, desperate parents, and the battle for experimental drugs - The Boston Globebostonglobe.com
What if your loved one were sick. Maybe dying. And a drug still being tested might, or might not, help. How far would you go to get it? -
Instagram co-founder on the power of search, and co-engineering inside the Facebook empiremedium.com
On Wednesday, Instagram unveiled details of its new search features and search architecture, which is based on the Unico… -
At Airbnb, Data Science Belongs Everywhere: Insights from Five Years of Hypergrowth - Airbnb Engineeringnerds.airbnb.com
Five years ago, I joined Airbnb as its first data scientist. At that time, the few people who’d even heard of the company were still figuring out how to pronounce its name, and the roughly 7 person team (depending on whether you counted that guy on the... -
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How to Get Rich in the New Cubanewyorker.com
In the past, it’s been a risky place to do business. Can one Cuban-American entrepreneur help it change? -
Black-market archives - Gwern.netgwern.net
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Anthropology, Footnoted: Jared Diamond’s The World Until Yesterday—Vol. 1, No. 2theappendix.net
As a work on what non-Western people can teach us, Jared Diamond’s latest book, <i>The World Until Yesterday</i>, is “clearly written, well-conceptualized, and unresponsive to the human condition,” writes anthropologist Alex Golub. The prob... -
Uber should be suspended in California and fined $7.3 million, judge sayslatimes.com
The ride-hailing giant Uber should be fined $7.3 million and suspended from operating in California because its parent company did not comply with state laws,&nbsp;a state administrative judge&nbsp;said Wednesday. -
One Way to Reform Reddit: Give Users a Share in Profitsnytimes.com
It might be time for Reddit to move away from its reliance on volunteers to run its operations and give Reddit’s users a financial stake in the company’s success. -
Algorithms Had Themselves a Treasury Flash Crashbloombergview.com
Algorithms were selling to other algorithms -- sometimes their algorithmic colleagues. -
The Archival Agenda: Thinking Through Scientific Archives at the Royal Societyjhiblog.org
by guest contributor Brooke Palmieri Imagine that an archivist's child is raised from birth as a professional archivist to see how they documented their life. Imagine that toddler making a finger p... -
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Three decades of the Commodore 64arstechnica.com
We reminisce about a major step in the development of the personal computer. -
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The Misleading War on GMOs: The Food Is Safe. The Rhetoric Is Dangerous.slate.com
Is genetically engineered food dangerous? Many people seem to think it is. In the past five years, companies have submitted more than 27,000 products to the Non-GMO Project, which certifies goods that are free of genetically modified organisms. Last ye... -
Water & Vice: Producing Intoxicants in an Era of Extreme Drought - Facts So Romantic - Nautilusnautil.us
California is thirsty. The state is in its fourth year of a drought that is especially severe, by any measure. For instance, an April…