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by elptacek 16y ago
"Anna Ochab-Marcinek is one of the co-discoverers of a statistical law that describes how a random disorder inside individual cells transforms into an order leading to a differentiation of population..." ...so we're showing you a picture of
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by elptacek 16y ago
Probably not cool to post this here, but I got a "LOLWUT" out of this. I'm trying to imagine what they need this for. Crowd control at 1 Infinite Loop store?
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Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office has new tactical armored vehicle(mercurynews.com)
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Apple partners with Cherokee tribe to put language on iPhones (appleinsider.com)
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Enhanced Vision System For Soldiers Being Investigated(crunchgear.com)
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by elptacek 16y ago
I missed this. Had my head in the sand. It's not clear from what I wrote which direction the manipulation was going when the epiphany occurred. Here was this small, completely helpless animal that would have died if I hadn't cared for it. A
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How to Fly the Harrier Jump Jet(wired.com)
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by elptacek 16y ago
"Actually, it's like maintaining a skyscraper built from steel, concrete and glass integrated with complex HVAC, plumbing, electrical and elevator systems." Adding, "Designed by a committee. Of MC Escher fans."
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by elptacek 16y ago
Looks like the probe didn't make it: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&tl...
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Akatsuki arrives at Venus, mission's fate uncertain(spaceflightnow.com)
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by elptacek 16y ago
"Switch" by Chip and Dan Heath. Website here: http://heathbrothers.com/switch/ . I don't tend to go out of my way for self-help type books, which this may or may not be. The authors leverage a lot of research and rhetoric that was already
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His Hindsight Is 20-20 (NYU Professor installs a camera in the back of his head)(online.wsj.com)
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A Vacation from Technology(sage.org)
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by elptacek 16y ago
There's a difference between being "unhappy with life" and being "unhappy with your life." Maybe folks who style themselves as philosophers and intellectuals are incapable of making this delineation -- or that we, reading their writings, do
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by elptacek 16y ago
Curious. All of the advice I've read about women in the work place contradicts this assertion. To wit, that women tend to be TOO candid, and should restrain this compulsion in order to thrive.
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by elptacek 16y ago
"Even with good credentials, it is difficult for young people to find work and keep themselves afloat." I would like to see this statement better qualified. Of the dozens of people I've worked with over the years, I can think of exactly thr
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by elptacek 16y ago
I lived in Zurich from 95-97, rooming with an American expat I met through Usenet news. He still lives there, in fact. He knows where all the good shopping is, and he's fluent in German. Very handy.
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IBM Selectric Typewriter & its digital to analogue converter(youtube.com)
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by elptacek 16y ago
Once you get wherever you are going, find an expat community. Yes, I realise you may be trying to get AWAY from your fellow countrymen, but someone who speaks your language and knows their way around will be invaluable, especially when cult
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The Perfect Stimulus: Bad Management(online.wsj.com)
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by elptacek 16y ago
This was my first thought, as well. But after re-reading the article, it's not clear to me that women have a higher tolerance for pain, just that we require two types of receptors to be active to feel relief from morphine, and that the "com
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by elptacek 16y ago
Here's a book: http://www.amazon.com/Patternmaking-Comprehensive-Reference-... And here's a website: http://vintagesewing.info/ And a good book on textiles: http://www.amazon.com/World-Textiles-Visual-Traditional-Tech... There are som
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by elptacek 16y ago
After re-reading the question a couple of times, I get the idea that oldmanstan may not know how to sew. There's a step between "sketching the artwork" and "making the garment" -- designing the sloper. As an apparel manufacturer, is this a
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by elptacek 16y ago
When I first read this, it kinda surprised me. Like something one of my kids might ask, maybe. I guess it really has been such a long time since I've had to consider the impact being introverted was having on my life. After all, I have a hu
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by elptacek 16y ago
He left off a couple of important points. Because The Wire is drama, you get to know the characters as people. There is a huge difference between looking at "urban, ethnic and impoverished" on paper and getting to know and appreciate the ch
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Artificial "skin" materials can sense pressure(reuters.com)
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by elptacek 16y ago
You're leaving out the part where your parents were of sufficient means to provide you with the resources -- eg, a computer, a modem and phone line, not to mention food, clothing, and an expensive private school education -- that put you sl
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Endangered or not, wolf killings set to expand (google.com)
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Hubble Captures Supernova 1987A Trace Shock Wave(redorbit.com)
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by elptacek 16y ago
Our results show that some words commonly used in programming languages do not relate well to the concepts they are meant to describe. For instance, in our tests, we tested words that meant "doing something zero or more times." We found tha

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