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Boulder-Size Clues to How Humans Settled the Americas(nytimes.com)
7 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Y-chromosomes and the extent of patrilineal ancestry in Irish surnames (2006)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Plants repeatedly got rid of their ability to obtain their own nitrogen(arstechnica.com)
135 points by curtis 8y ago|53 comments
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A 'self-eating' rocket engine could put satellites in orbit more easily(phys.org)
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Why did prehistoric Americans fashion the enigmatic bannerstones?(archaeology.org)
19 points by curtis 8y ago|8 comments
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The Internet Might Be Keeping Inflation Low(motherjones.com)
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SIGSALY: a World War II secure speech system for very high level communications(en.wikipedia.org)
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The personality traits necessary for being a good astronaut(bigthink.com)
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by curtis 8y ago
Something that I'd missed in previous articles about the El Faro sinking: > Then, at 0554 , the captain ordered a turn to port to get the wind on the ship’s starboard side, generating a port list. A few minutes later, El Faro
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by curtis 8y ago
This is just flat out wrong. We do get more cloudy days than any major city in the U.S. but we don't actually get that much heavy rain. This is at least partly offset by the fact that the temperatures are much milder year round. Sea
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Sinking of the US Cargo Vessel El Faro: Illustrated digest [pdf](ntsb.gov)
88 points by curtis 8y ago|29 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
I'd think that for half that much money you could greatly upgrade BART and more importantly extend it into the central valley .
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by curtis 8y ago
It takes me a lot longer to write the code than it does to format it for readability. I'm inclined to think that the reason that auto-formatters are popular is not because manually formatting code is hard, but simply to head off nitpic
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by curtis 8y ago
> By using it, you agree to cede control over minutiae of hand-formatting. I may be in a minority, but I do not want to cede control over minutiae of hand-formatting. Am I the only person that feels this way?
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The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Wiped Out Many Birds(theatlantic.com)
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These were the unlikely survivors after dinosaurs went extinct(cnn.com)
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A promising target in the quest for a 1M-year-old Antarctic ice core(washington.edu)
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Hawaiian Volcano Observatory: Kīlauea – Current Maps(volcanoes.usgs.gov)
59 points by curtis 8y ago|20 comments
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Photo Updates from Kilauea: The Lava Meets the Sea(theatlantic.com)
2 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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'Major breakthrough' (isotope analysis) in Norway's Isdal woman mystery (2017)(bbc.com)
2 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Cougars almost never attack humans. But here are possible reasons this one did(cnn.com)
1 points by curtis 8y ago|1 comments
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by curtis 8y ago
If interest rates rise and then fall again over a relatively short term (several years or longer in the case of real estate) then housing prices might not fall much because owners will pull property off the market and wait for it to improve
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by curtis 8y ago
I'd much rather code on a whiteboard than do a take-home assignment. I may be in the minority but I rather suspect I'm not the only one. I can understand that some people find whiteboard coding really stressful. I never have, an
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1968: The year in pictures(cnn.com)
2 points by curtis 8y ago|0 comments
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Ancient Rome’s Collapse Is Written into Arctic Ice(theatlantic.com)
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The severed feet found on beaches near Seattle and Vancouver, explained(vox.com)
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Enslaved and then marooned on Tromelin Island for fifteen years (2014)(archaeology.org)
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The Vrba–Wetzler report: A document describing Auschwitz written by 2 escapees(en.wikipedia.org)
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by curtis 8y ago
Finland is cold but Finns most definitely are not -- 5.3 million people and two million saunas [1]. [1] https://finland.fi/life-society/bare-facts-of-the-sauna/
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by curtis 8y ago
From the article: > The results also showed that although female doctors attempt suicide far less often than women in the general population, their completion rate exceeds that of the general population by 2.5 to 4 times. It also equals

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