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Offical Soylent: Should it be producing Mustard Gas?discourse.soylent.me
"When used in impure form, such as warfare agents, they are usually yellow-brown in color and have an odor resembling mustard plants, garlic, or horseradish, hence the name." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_mustard) Should Soylent be gi... - siftnet.com
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stephane.ducasse.free.fr
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facebook/fatalgithub.com
fatal - Facebook Template Library: a library for fast prototyping of software in C++11 and up. - izbicki.me
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How Hold Music Manipulates Your Moodslate.com
In 2012, according to Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald, an Adelaide man was kept on hold with the airline Qantas for 15 hours. As a recorded message affirmed, over and over, that a customer service agent would be with him “soon,” he simply stayed on—w... -
Race and Attraction, 2009 – 2014blog.okcupid.com
We looked at race in one of our very first posts, and today I’d like to revisit the topic with fresh data. This article folds in millions of person-to-person interactions, what one human being thinks of another. As such, it’s different from a look at, ... -
Researchers create a Maxwell’s demon with a single electronarstechnica.com
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Facebook is convinced this man is his mothertheverge.com
An auto-tagging accident show the flaws, and potential powers, of the social network's DeepFace system. Facial recognition software can identify family members, even as they age over time. It's a creepy reality with some positive potential. -
Whole Foods and Instacart turn up the heat in the delivery warsfortune.com
A new partnership between the two companies should speed up service. And in the cutthroat world of grocery delivery, every second helps. -
Uber sued for allegedly refusing rides to the blind and putting a dog in the trunkwashingtonpost.com
When a blind passenger realized her seeing-eye dog was in the trunk an Uber driver allegedly refused to pull over. -
No Association Between Salt And Blood Pressure, Study Findstime.com
Sodium has long been labeled the blood-pressure bogeyman. But are we giving salt a fair shake? A new study published in the American Journal of… -
Google Buys Lift Labs in Further Biotech Pushbits.blogs.nytimes.com
Google has acquired Lift Labs, a Bay Area company that makes a high-tech spoon designed to make it easier for people with neurodegenerative tremors to eat. -
Raise the Crime Ratenplusonemag.com
From 1980 to 2007, the number of prisoners held in the United States quadrupled to 2.3 million, with an additional 5 million on probation or parole. What Ayn Rand once called the “freest, noblest country in the history of the world” is now the most inc... -
Here's a $500 Dry-Cleaning Machine That Fits in Your Closet | Design, Gadget Lab | WIREDwired.com
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Create a Resolution Independent iOS8 App and Set Your Images Free - Craftsy Engineering Blogcraftsy.me
Since iOS launched, png’s have been used for icons. It’s been so simple, why would anyone consider any other solution? The workflow looks like: “we want to add a button, it needs an icon for this action, email the png to me and we’re done.” So the desi...