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Available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20181122000011/https://www.cia.g...
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This: acceleration, not enrichment, is the most promising way to serve gifted students
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Legendary theoretical physicist Hans Bethe delivers 3 lectures on quantum theory(bethe.cornell.edu)
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Found with: https://locserendipity.com/edu.html
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Making your our own iron using the ancient techniques of bloomery smelting(iron.wlu.edu)
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A search engine for quality .edu sites formerly included in DMOZ(locserendipity.com)
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Some key points: --There will always be plenty of free, non-commercial software in the public domain for reading and editing text files --Whether future virtual reality, or a chip you can implant in your earlobe, plain text will be there --
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I like the last chapter, which shows some strategies for reducing energy use.
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A folding phone broke, and Samsung wouldn't fix it. "What they’re doing currently is forcing their early-adopter customers to bear the risks of the new technology. With a device like this the policy should be leaning much more tow
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In summary: Horn compared her feelings after returning to the US from deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan to the struggles of employees negotiating the ambiguity of adjusting to a new normal of work, such as returning to the office after a l
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When the moon is half full, the sun is just under 90 degrees away in the sky. This is how we know the moon is close by. You can use the law of sines to find out how many moon-earth distances are between Earth and then sun. Then, if you have
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The biggest takeaway I got from this was that recording yourself doing something, then observing yourself completing it as an outsider can dramatically increase your performance. Relevant content: After watching a recording of myself writin
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A robo-therapist ( https://locserendipity.com/Rogerian.html ) that might be a little better than Eliza, especially when used as an aid by a human therapist using Rogerian techniques.
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Not in the past 50 years, but more like the past 80 years, nonparametric statistics in general are pretty amazing, though underused. Look at the Mann-Whitney U test and the Wilcoxon Rank Sum. Those tests require very few assumptions.
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This resonated with me: "The results keep getting 'refined' so as to suit the popular 80% of queries, while getting much worse for any technical or obscure queries."
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I created a Google custom search engine for the text of about 40,000 out-of-copyright books: https://www.locserendipity.com/Google.html and noticed that exact text matches don’t always show up. A RegEx search of the same re
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Blood ultimately comes from your bones. Microtubule stress is known to be important to the hematopoietic process. The microtuble-binding drug plinabulin, for example, binds in such a way that helps ameliorate neutropenia. I would guess that
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I think it is definitely possible to make positive changes that stick. For example, I have been rowing on my erg daily for 6 months. It doesn’t have to happen around New Years. A lot of the difficulties we run into making positive change fo
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I recognized this need in myself a few years ago and created a website to expose me to new experiences and ideas: locserendipity.com Right now I am reading a book I discovered through the site, The Evolution of Prime Intellect (using the Wi
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I ordered one. This could be a huge benefit for someone like me who writes for a living.
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Another fragment from 1922 (found with https://www.locserendipity.com/Google.html ): A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW Mary A. Ford O mighty human brotherhood! why fiercely war and strive, While God's great world has ample spac
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I think the only way that is proven is to build a passage tomb, like Newgrange.
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Both of these could work. For example, after reading the book, I stopped showering unless I worked out for 30 minutes on my Concept 2 rowing machine and I have been very consistent about rowing since linking those habits. The rowing machine
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Maybe it actually is something I should try and it sounds like there have been some major improvements over the past few years. I dislike EndNote, but that doesn't mean the same issues exist with Zotero, so maybe I will give it a try.
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I am thinking of one particular journal that had a problem with historical reference libraries under RefMan that all broke after the EndNote migration. A library of thousands of purchased articles, including pivotal trials that are commonly
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Yes, I think that makes a lot of sense. Maybe the issues I am referring to are more to do with the general frustrations of putting together a paper with multiple authors and less to do with specific software.
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This is the way. Numbering should happen right before submission.
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I read this book and I think this sums it up in a Tweet: The laws are: Make it obvious, Make it attractive, Make it easy, Make it satisfying; Each law maps to one of the four steps of habit formation: Make it obvious → Cue Make it attract
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I am curious as to how you share PDF files with others ensuring that you have distribution licenses for all of the files. Not even RightsLink from the Copyright Clearance Center automatically purchases those distribution licenses. What I do
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A RegEx-based parsing system in JavaScript helps with the reference formatting. EndNote makes references uneditable (unless you also have a copy of EndNote) and often cannot adjust to a particular journal's idiosyncrasies...but I can d

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