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Messenger probe just impacts on Mercury(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
3 points by jdnier 11y ago|1 comments
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A Private Office Pod That’ll Help You Find Your Work Flow(wired.com)
1 points by jdnier 12y ago|2 comments
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Eight Terminal Utilities Every OS X Command Line User Should Know [2014](lifehacker.com)
1 points by jdnier 12y ago|0 comments
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by jdnier 12y ago
Here we have a "curator" saying these photos are from "Source: NASA", but with no additional details provided. No original source or URL, no captions, no detail on cropping or manipulation, just a collection of "the
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by jdnier 12y ago
I wonder how overwhelming it might be to suddenly see vivid reds and greens for the first time, especially for an adult, and not be able to turn it off.
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by jdnier 12y ago
Much larger in scale, alfalfa is also exported, often to Asia. "The water used to irrigate just alfalfa and hay — 7 trillion gallons per year — exceeds the irrigation needs of all the vegetables, berries, and fruit orchard
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by jdnier 12y ago
On the theme of the impact of animal agriculture, here's a much deeper exploration of those impacts and a dizzying list of statistics and sources: http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/
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by jdnier 12y ago
I think of it as indicating the function name and parameter list are a unit (it's foo(object), not foo (object)). I've always liked that style. When I see people write 'some %s %s text ' %('x', 'y&#x
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Tintinnabuli: Visualizing Arvo Pärt's composition technique [video]
1 points by jdnier 12y ago|0 comments
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by jdnier 12y ago
This is the best gallery of photos I've seen. One close up views the comet from only 6 miles away.
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Rosetta Is Tailing a Warming Comet(nytimes.com)
9 points by jdnier 12y ago|2 comments
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Do Antidepressant Drugs Really Work? (A: As well as sugar pills)(nutritionfacts.org)
1 points by jdnier 12y ago|1 comments
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by jdnier 12y ago
An hour-long video summarizing the effectiveness of plant-based diets, which can prevent, treat, or reverse 14 of the top-15 causes of death in the US (just not accidents).
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Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death (2012)(nutritionfacts.org)
2 points by jdnier 12y ago|1 comments
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by jdnier 12y ago
"ohmygodthelistgoeson"!
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by jdnier 12y ago
Life is endlessly surprising: "The diverse bacteria were found in groundwater and are thought to be quite common. They're also quite odd, which isn't a surprise given the cells are close to and in some cases smaller than seve
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All the world’s data can fit on a teaspoon-sized DNA hard drive(qz.com)
3 points by jdnier 12y ago|0 comments
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by jdnier 12y ago
"If they sometimes act as if they discovered typography like it was the Higgs boson, we can forgive their excess of enthusiasm."
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by jdnier 12y ago
It looks reasonable in Chrome on Linux... until I looked at the source, which is littered with <FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS"> tags.
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by jdnier 12y ago
From 2013, but it's a big list.
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by jdnier 12y ago
It pains me to see him unwrapping paper-backed rolls of film in room light, then using a strobe to document the appearance of the the roll (before developing). The fogging you see at the top and bottom edges of some rolls is from light leak
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by jdnier 12y ago
“I realize why my cab driver seemed so proud to drop me off at the aging-but-impressive all-brick main building of Cenicafe... ‘Welcome,’ he said, ‘to the NASA of Colombia.’”
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Inside the World’s Most Advanced Coffee Laboratory(motherboard.vice.com)
3 points by jdnier 12y ago|1 comments
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by jdnier 12y ago
No, not really. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless
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by jdnier 12y ago
The Studio Ghibli film Spirited Away (2001) overtook Titanic and is still the highest grossing film in Japan.[1] Another Ghibli film, Howl's Moving Castle, also passed Mononoke on that list. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by jdnier 12y ago
"The atend and peek properties of the Lookahead class enable a whole set of simple recipes for working with generators."
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by jdnier 12y ago
The docs make a nice tutorial on various itertools functions and how iterstuff enhances them.
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Iterstuff is the cut-down single-blade version of Python itertools(github.com)
2 points by jdnier 12y ago|2 comments
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by jdnier 12y ago
A great book, full of interesting ideas and implications of software development carried on over millennia.
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Why Crossbar.io?(crossbar.io)
1 points by jdnier 12y ago|0 comments

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