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The Reason Some Hyperlocal Languages Survive(theatlantic.com)
34 points by curtis 8y ago|28 comments
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Woven image from 1839 was an important step in the history of computing (2016)(historyofinformation.com)
69 points by curtis 8y ago|27 comments
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A Prayerbook Woven by the Jacquard Loom: The First Digitally Produced Book?(historyofinformation.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Bombas founders wanted to help the homeless – by giving them socks(cnn.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
If you use a rock to smash up a bone to get to the marrow, I wonder if you also get, as a side-effect, a bunch of bone flakes, some of which are sharp enough to be used as a cutting implement. Maybe primitive hominids were smashing bones f
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Was the M4 Sherman That Bad? A Soviet Perspective(knowledgeglue.com)
6 points by curtis 8y ago|1 comments
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Brick by Lego brick, teen builds his own prosthetic arm(in.reuters.com)
2 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
A different but related point: Having a map is not the same thing as knowing the way. This is one reason why documentation isn't nearly as useful in software development as people think it should be.
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Fireball Over Cuba Exploded with the Energy of 1,400 Tons of TNT, Nasa Says(gizmodo.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Taco Bell's Tortillas Are Extreme Enough for Nasa(firstwefeast.com)
2 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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British divers rescued four Thai adults from cave before saving trapped children(telegraph.co.uk)
6 points by curtis 8y ago|2 comments
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People’s fears about vaccines aren’t just about vaccines(slate.com)
3 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Luxury Developers Use the ‘Void’ to Build Sky High(nytimes.com)
2 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Nasa’s Curiosity Rover Weighed a Mountain on Mars(nytimes.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
The control group was drawn from Jews who were born in Palestine between 1911 and 1945. I think it's likely that this group would likely have been almost entirely Ashkenazi Jews, because there was substantial emigration of European Je
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Colombia’s Plan to Welcome Millions of Venezuelan Migrants(theatlantic.com)
53 points by curtis 8y ago|40 comments
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There’s a Bigger Difference Between 6 and 10 Than You Think(motherjones.com)
3 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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There Are Two Big Misperceptions Around the Media Layoffs Narrative(slate.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Jiggle syphon(en.wikipedia.org)
14 points by curtis 8y ago|2 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
Fecal Transplantation for Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection in Older Adults: A Review - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jgs.12378 Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Clostridium diffi
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Brooke Hart, San Jose, and the Last Lynching in California(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|1 comments
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Mockingbirds show heightened aggression after lead exposure(eurekalert.org)
88 points by curtis 8y ago|27 comments
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Stratolaunch abandons launch vehicle program(spacenews.com)
2 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Customer Service Agents Can See What You're Typing in Real Time(gizmodo.com)
222 points by curtis 8y ago|164 comments
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World’s Oldest Known Periodic Table Found During Cleanup of Scottish Lab(gizmodo.com)
10 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Easter Island monument locations explained by freshwater sources(cnn.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday's total lunar eclipse(newscientist.com)
600 points by curtis 8y ago|142 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
> We are cleaving into two nations—one where daily life revolves around the car, and the other where the car is receding in favor of walking, biking, and transit. Walking, biking, and transit are not actually the same thing, except tha
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Khufu ship(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
> It didn't work: there were people who could answer those questions indistinguishably from an exploit developer who nevertheless couldn't write a 1995-era stack overflow exploit if their life depended on it. Do you think the

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