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The Most Important Color Scheme in Computer History(observer.com)
2 points by igonvalue 12y ago|0 comments
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At Kodak, Clinging to a Future Beyond Film(nytimes.com)
3 points by igonvalue 12y ago|0 comments
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A Tech Column on Wearable Gadgets Draws Fire as ‘Pseudoscience’(publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com)
8 points by igonvalue 12y ago|2 comments
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The unlikely critique of the most influential economics book of this century(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by igonvalue 12y ago|0 comments
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Could Wearable Computer Radiation Be Harmful?(nytimes.com)
13 points by igonvalue 12y ago|7 comments
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by igonvalue 12y ago
Who also happens to be the great-grandfather of Armie Hammer, who played the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network .
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by igonvalue 12y ago
> The energy kite simulates the tip of a wind turbine blade, which is the part of a turbine that makes most of the energy. The kite is launched from the ground station by the rotors, which act like propellers on a helicopter. Once in the
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Gen. Petraeus’s Light Punishment(nytimes.com)
5 points by igonvalue 12y ago|0 comments
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How one perfume company misled scientists into believing in human sex pheromones(vox.com)
66 points by igonvalue 12y ago|6 comments
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How the Penguin Got Its Waddle(newyorker.com)
1 points by igonvalue 12y ago|0 comments
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by igonvalue 12y ago
Previous discussion on Hacker News of a similar article by the same author: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9039274 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tw...
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by igonvalue 12y ago
Maybe 50kg is too much, but you wouldn't be happy with a 1.4kg increase in lean mass? I assume that most of that is an increase in bone density and muscle mass, both of which are good things.
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by igonvalue 12y ago
Yes, I understand that 2kg is the total change, and I've read the full text that you've helpfully linked. I'm not sure what your point is?
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by igonvalue 12y ago
Speaking of diet, I'm wondering what your thoughts are on macronutrient composition (e.g., low-carbohydrate) diets? I didn't find anything in your essays, just this series of tweets.[0] [0] https://twitter.com/gwer
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by igonvalue 12y ago
> if they are so unusual, doesn't that make confounding more plausible? That is a very good point. > Also very interesting, and counter to the usual narratives about health. (Everything is heritable...) And yet this need not lead
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The Power of Touch(newyorker.com)
2 points by igonvalue 12y ago|0 comments
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One Twin Exercises, the Other Doesn’t(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
145 points by igonvalue 12y ago|85 comments
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by igonvalue 12y ago
Inspired by this tweet[0], I'd originally submitted this story as the more pointed "Ex-Homeland Security chief hired to suggest competitor's stadium is a terrorism target" or something to that effect. It was changed by t
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AEG report warns rival Inglewood NFL stadium presents terrorist threat(latimes.com)
12 points by igonvalue 12y ago|6 comments
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Why Are Certain Smells So Hard to Identify?(newyorker.com)
6 points by igonvalue 12y ago|0 comments
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The Bad Cop Database(slate.com)
3 points by igonvalue 12y ago|0 comments
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Building a Better Digital Eye(newyorker.com)
1 points by igonvalue 12y ago|0 comments
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The Reading Level of the State of Union Address Is in Decline(priceonomics.com)
9 points by igonvalue 12y ago|4 comments
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by igonvalue 12y ago
One of the most interesting things I've read (or listened to) about expertise is a podcast interview with the author of The Sports Gene [0]. > So in my second chapter I sort of tell a story I call the 'Tale of Two High Jumpers
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by igonvalue 12y ago
Here are the complaints for Harvard[0] and MIT[1]. According to the complaints, the relevant laws are Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Title III of the Americans With Disabilities Act. The former deals with institutions tha
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by igonvalue 12y ago
Is there an http download link that would allow downloading from the browser (or with curl)?
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by igonvalue 12y ago
That reminds me of Edward Glaeser's point from Triumph of the City about the relationship between electronic communication and face-to-face meetings: > Today, information technology is changing the world, making it more idea-inten
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The Futility of Vengeance(nytimes.com)
33 points by igonvalue 12y ago|1 comments
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How College Education Became a Luxury Good(nytimes.com)
4 points by igonvalue 12y ago|1 comments
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Shot by the Police in Albuquerque(newyorker.com)
2 points by igonvalue 12y ago|0 comments

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