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Caltech: secrets of the world’s number one universitytimeshighereducation.co.uk
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Say no to SaaS vanity metricsgigaom.com
It’s easy to get caught up in vanity metrics: the numbers that make you look good even when your startup is stumbling. But here’s why you should examine those oft-quoted stats more closely, and the metrics you should consider swapping them for. -
How NASA Prints Trees | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Lynn Rothschild has short brown hair and smiley eyes. She cracks jokes about biology and microscopes with ease. Diana Gentry, her decades-younger Ph.D... -
It's all about the short breaks - Ged's Blogblog.gedrap.me
I’ve recently notice that how productive your day is depends all on how do you spend your short breaks. There are two kinds of short breaks: … -
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PHOTOS: What Snow Tells Us About Creating Better Public Spaces on E. Passyunk Avenue | This Old Citythisoldcity.com
After record amounts of snow this year in Philadelphia, you could be excused for not wanting to see any more of it. But today's snow actually brought us some pretty cool ideas for public spaces and traffic safety improvements along E. Passyunk Avenue i... - rmarcus.info
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diagrams - Nice scientific pictures show off - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchangetex.stackexchange.com
Task Show off your best scientific illustration ! The main purpose of this question is to share beautiful scientific pictures, preferably with an educational aspect. Content Your post must c... -
Learn C, Then Learn Computer Science | qrohlf.comqrohlf.com
Science and theoretical understanding is great, but fundamentals are just as important. -
Counting Votes is Hard in Decision Makingblog.forcerank.it
Voting systems turn out to be more important than you think. -
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Girls and Software | Linux Journallinuxjournal.com
December 2013's EOF, titled "Mars Needs Women", visited an interesting fact: that the male/female ratio among Linux Journal readers, and Linux kernel developers, is so lopsided (male high, female low) that graphing it would produce a near-vertical line. -
Why I've switched from Chrome to Safaritimrogers.co.uk
The blog of Tim Rogers, a 20 year old startup guy, developer and coffee addict from London, UK. - andersonjr.com
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the mergy notes | Old Spice Marketingmergy.org
It must be fun to work in the P&G Marketing for Old Spice. They seem to have some flexibility on packaging and labelling. If you are trying to differentiate yourself from the many other brands,... -
New maize varieties to boost grain production in West and Central Africabrowntexfarms.wordpress.com
New maize varieties to boost grain production in West and Central Africa. -
A VC: If It Sounds Too Good To Be True, It Probably Isavc.com
Ben Horowitz has a great post up on his blog, called Why I Did Not Go To Jail. I would encourage everyone to go read it. But in the event you aren't going to do that, he tells a story... -
Occupy Wall Street leader now works for Google, wants to crowdfund a private militiapando.com
Remember Justine Tunney? The OWS-anarchist-turned-cultist-Google-employee who bashed my reporting on Google's for-profit surveillance? Well, today she hit the big time. Over the last few days, Tunn... -
We recognize less attractive faces best: How attractiveness interferes with recognition of facessciencedaily.com
We tend to remember unattractive faces better than attractive ones, according to new research. Psychologists write that attractive faces without particularly remarkable features leave much less distinctive impressions on our memory.