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Red Squirrel adult males may kill pups during years when food may be plentiful(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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Fukushima nuclear disaster: did the evacuation raise the death toll?(ft.com)
59 points by curtis 9y ago|42 comments
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Solenodon: a venomous mammal survived the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs(newsweek.com)
36 points by curtis 9y ago|7 comments
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Ships in Caribbean Told to Avoid Underwater Volcano Due to Eruption Risk(gcaptain.com)
3 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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Humans Prospered During What Should Have Been a Devastating Volcanic Winter(gizmodo.com)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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Taking pictures of hummingbirds with a midrange, off-the-shelf consumer camera(motherjones.com)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|1 comments
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A 1980s study on juvenile crime in Japan sheds light on American gun culture(qz.com)
101 points by curtis 9y ago|91 comments
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Vector founder: “100 percent” confident in first orbital launch this year(arstechnica.com)
2 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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Why Rust Has Macros(kasma1990.gitlab.io)
3 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
I'm skeptical whether Hyperloop as described in Musk's original paper is practical. On the other hand, I think it's possible that some variant which is clearly Hyperloop-inspired might actually be feasible. You can probably
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by curtis 9y ago
I don't think we're obligated to take Hyperloop seriously until there is a large-scale demonstration system up and running. On the other hand, I don't think we can fully discount it as long as so many people (with funding!)
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A Hyperloop-Inspired Pod May Help Reduce Denver’s Traffic(blog.caranddriver.com)
2 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine facilitates the creation of visual novels(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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Researchers Devise a New Way to Solve Long-Standing Mystery About the Universe(gizmodo.com)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
> ... things are great for women in high tech. Why do so many people keep insisting on believing that the problem is specific to the technology fields? Women face these kind of problems everywhere that they have to interact with men
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Termites Finally Being Recognized for What They Really Are: Social Cockroaches(gizmodo.com)
2 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
I've wondered for a while if this could be done. I guess now I know. The potential for exploiting the Sun as a gravitation lens comes up on Centauri Dreams from from time to time (see https://www.google.com/search?q=
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by curtis 9y ago
> ... willingness to fearlessly dig into someone else's code. I've done this many times. The problem is that it takes a lot of time, and there's no way you can dig through more than a fraction of a large codebase. You go
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by curtis 9y ago
It's important to understand that the US is a big complicated beast, it's not just one way or the other. Parts really are "supersad" and a lot of other parts aren't.
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The eastern coyote, a wild N. American canine with coyote-wolf and dog parentage(en.wikipedia.org)
47 points by curtis 9y ago|11 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
You could attach something like the ISS Cupola module to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupola_(ISS_module)
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The Shape of Ancient Dice Suggests Shifting Beliefs in Fate and Chance(theatlantic.com)
77 points by curtis 9y ago|25 comments
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Swype, a once-popular third-party keyboard app, is discontinued(slate.com)
2 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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IV Bags May Not Be Necessary to Rehydrate Patients(slate.com)
193 points by curtis 9y ago|138 comments
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Hopper's Nighthawks: Look Through the Window(youtube.com)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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The Inept Halfpipe Skier Who Loopholed Her Way into the Games(slate.com)
3 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
I think Neal Stephenson's Anathem outrageously violates rules 9 and 10. > 9 Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want d
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First Land Plants May Have Sprouted 80M Years Earlier Than Thought(gizmodo.com)
1 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 9y ago
This might be good advice for a lot of writers, but it might depend on genre. In particular, some of it is surely wrong for science fiction...
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Bari Weiss and the Excesses of Call-Out Culture(theatlantic.com)
3 points by curtis 9y ago|0 comments

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