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Mass Immigration Affects Countries with Weak Economic Institutions: Jordan(academic.oup.com)
3 points by curtis 7y ago|0 comments
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Alaska defunds scholarships for thousands of students ahead of fall semester(nbcnews.com)
91 points by curtis 7y ago|57 comments
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A Shipwreck, 500 Years Old, Appears on the Baltic Seabed(nytimes.com)
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YourLanguageSucks(wiki.theory.org)
57 points by curtis 7y ago|80 comments
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Why do so many Egyptian statues have broken noses?(cnn.com)
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New Jurassic non-avian theropod dinosaur sheds light on origin of flight(eurekalert.org)
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by curtis 7y ago
This paper considers that very question: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2009... From the "Conclusions" section: > Analysis of our results and comparison to the results o
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by curtis 7y ago
According to the article: > One theory was that Canadians were perpetually avenging the “Crucified Canadian,” a battlefield rumour of a captured Canadian officer that Germans had supposedly crucified to a barn door near Ypres. The cruci
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by curtis 7y ago
A few years ago I did some back-of-the-envelope calculations regarding sulfur dioxide injection into the stratosphere: http://curtisb.posthaven.com/someday-soon-chemtrails-may-be-... . The proposal for saving Antarctic ice i
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The forgotten ruthlessness of Canada’s Great War soldiers (2018)(nationalpost.com)
126 points by curtis 7y ago|106 comments
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What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life (2018)(scientificamerican.com)
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Middle seats on airplanes are the worst. This design could change that(cnn.com)
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by curtis 7y ago
Some of these interfaces might be really fun to implement, but there are very few of them that I think I'd want to use. For me, writing code is about the easiest thing I do. Other than identifier completion, I don't need much bey
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LA Needs an Old Approach to Homelessness(motherjones.com)
1 points by curtis 7y ago|0 comments
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by curtis 7y ago
A lot of Go programmers didn't like this proposal at all. I'd like to think this is just because they didn't think it was good enough. However, it seems that many, many Go programmers didn't like it because they think
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Iron particles are falling into the seas in greater quantities than thought(scientificamerican.com)
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Terraforming Mars with strange silica blanket could let plants thrive(newscientist.com)
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Torchships – Atomic Rockets (2012)(projectrho.com)
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In search of the sea wolf along Canada’s coast (2015)(nationalgeographic.com)
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by curtis 7y ago
From the post: > Now, there’s no question that a few specific cities have seen big rises. The Bay Area is obviously one, Denver is one, and Seattle is another—though the market has responded recently in Seattle and housing development i
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by curtis 7y ago
I think this is the first article I've read to use the term "visible homelessness". For many people who live in Seattle, the world "homeless" really means visibly homeless, but for many political activists, the wor
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Washington Can’t Solve a Housing Crisis That Doesn’t Exist(motherjones.com)
64 points by curtis 7y ago|81 comments
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Zong Massacre(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Haunting Beauty of Germany's WWII Bomb Craters(citylab.com)
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Tick in Amber Said to Contain Oldest Mammalian Blood Cells Ever Found (2017)(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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by curtis 7y ago
I barely understand any article on quantum mechanics, but now I know that QTT is a thing and people are experimenting with it. That's why I personally upvoted the article but I admit I was on the fence about it. I'm hoping som
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A way to simulate gravity in space that won't cause motion sickness(msn.com)
1 points by curtis 7y ago|0 comments
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Artificial gravity breaks free from science fiction(colorado.edu)
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Volcano erupts on Italian island of Stromboli, kills one person(reuters.com)
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Tehran's Desert Ghost Towers Look Like a Zombie Movie Waiting to Happen(messynessychic.com)
1 points by curtis 7y ago|0 comments

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