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The Mythology of Dog Yearspriceonomics.com
For years, we've been inundated with the "fact" that one human year is equal to seven "dog years." There's just one problem: It's a crock of shit. - usenix.org
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Scientific writing: the online cooperativenature.com
Collaborative browser-based tools aim to change the way researchers write and publish their papers. -
Juxtapoz Magazine - An Iconic Phone Before the iPhonejuxtapoz.com
Before apps, text messages, and cameras, there was a phone that changed the way we conversed over telecommunications. Designed by Henry Dreyfus... -
From Lorde to Jessie J, the Hits Keep Coming for A & R Superstar Jason Flomobserver.com
While wildly successful, Mr. Flom—a kind of Wizard of Oz of mainstream music—is probably the most undersung hitmaker of the past 30 years. -
Clock Edge Detection...In Exceldrdobbs.com
Faced with a half-million lines of output from an oscilloscope, I turned to a spreadsheet -
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Clustering of bigram frequenciesgottwurfelt.com
Rick Wicklin at the SAS blog writes on the frequency of bigrams in an English corpus. In English: how often does a pair of letters, such as "TH" or "QZ", appear in English text? This is a follow-up... -
Doctors Find Barriers to Sharing Digital Medical Recordsnytimes.com
Doctors and hospital executives are expressing frustration that high expense and technical difficulties inhibit a major goal of the Affordable Care Act. -
Speeding up a DNS database with Redislabs.opendns.com
In this post, Frank Denis explains how we redesigned the OpenDNS DNS database for low-latency using Redis. - minizinc.org
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Eye exams from the comfort of homeopternative.com
Sign up for Opternative, the first online eye exam. Takes 15 minutes and costs less than traditional refractive exams. -
Piracy at the Old Baileypublicdomainreview.org
Ben Merriman presents a selection of piracy cases from the proceedings of London's Old Bailey. Although a few live up to the swashbuckling heists of stereotype, many reveal the surprisingly everyday nature of the maritime crimes brought before the cour... -
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Swordfish90/cool-retro-termgithub.com
cool-retro-term - A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display... -
Recruiting Tech Talent in High Schoolonline.wsj.com
New Hampshire employer, hungry for engineers, helps create a program to build skills locally. -
‘The Innovators’ by Walter Isaacson: How Women Shaped Technologynytimes.com
Whether in 1843, 1946 or today, women’s contributions are often ignored. -
Cops Are Handing Out Spyware to Parents—With Zero Oversight | WIREDwired.com
Mere days after a government crackdown on a spyware manufacturer comes the startling revelation that law enforcement agencies have been purchasing commercial spyware themselves and handing it out to the public for free. Police departments around the co... - printthis4.me
