Models of holographic dark energy and the Randall–Sundrum brane

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@worldscientific.com | 4 years ago

How America is reverting back to the feudal age

America’s birth represented a dramatic break from the past. Save for a few vestiges of the old European feudal order, mostly in the plantation economy of the Deep South, there was no hereditary nob… | Continue reading


@nypost.com | 4 years ago

Working with Temporary Files in Shell Scripts

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@putorius.net | 4 years ago

How to Ensure Your Health Care Innovation Doesn’t Flop

Aim for incremental improvements over breakthrough inventions. | Continue reading


@hbr.org | 4 years ago

I'm ready for post-news

"One of the things that holds many of us back is that we're beholden to the news more than we're beholden to our communities." | Continue reading


@niemanlab.org | 4 years ago

Ruby 2.x Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain (2018)

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@elttam.com | 4 years ago

Publishers Determined to Kill E-Books

A recent judgement makes it a breach of copyright to sell pre-owned eBooks. Do publishers really want to deter everyone from buying eBooks? | Continue reading


@eclecticlight.co | 4 years ago

Atomic-Array Optical Clock with Single-Atom Readout

An optical clock based on an array of individually trapped atoms provides a new twist in atom-based timekeeping. | Continue reading


@journals.aps.org | 4 years ago

Show HN: Gmail Analyzer – get statistics of your Gmail account

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@mhasbini.com | 4 years ago

"The Christmas Eve Confessions of Chuck Todd" - Mathew Ingram's Nuzzel Newsletter on Fri, Dec 27 2019

Fri, Dec 27 2019: Mathew Ingram (mathewi) Newsletter on Nuzzel. Subscribe to Mathew Ingram's Nuzzel Newsletter | Continue reading


@nuzzel.com | 4 years ago

How One Person Can Change the Conscience of an Organization

These four mindsets can help you transform the culture. | Continue reading


@hbr.org | 4 years ago

The simple technique our team uses to produce cleaner code

Lock 4 people up in the same room and pick each other’s brains for 1.5 hours. This is the recipe for our Technical workshop or… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Hacking Your Keyboard

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@blog.kaush.co | 4 years ago

Blasting an Escape Tunnel Through the Walled Garden

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@skube.blog | 4 years ago

How to Put Away Christmas Decorations So They’re in Great Shape for Next Year

These Christmas decoration storage ideas will help your seasonal decor last longer, and you’ll have an easier time getting set up next fall. | Continue reading


@thewirecutter.com | 4 years ago

Mapping the Remains of Supernovae

A new tool provides detailed, 3-D chemical view of exploded star systems  | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 4 years ago

India has built 21,000 miles of roads using recycled plastic

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@mobile.twitter.com | 4 years ago

Programming Languages of the Future

Python and JavaScript are the two hottest programming languages today. However, they cannot remain on top forever. Eventually, they must… | Continue reading


@itnext.io | 4 years ago

Paul Graham on building a business on a platform

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@mobile.twitter.com | 4 years ago

Seven Sisters (Oil Companies)

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@en.wikipedia.org | 4 years ago

Why Open Hardware on Its Own Doesn’t Solve the Trust Problem

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@bunniestudios.com | 4 years ago

Tony Brooker and the Atlas Compiler Compiler [pdf]

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@curation.cs.manchester.ac.uk | 4 years ago

How sales shopping is killing the planet

Christmas has passed and New Year is just around the corner. And the sales continue. Things started six weeks before Christmas with Singles Day, which began in China and is now the world's biggest shopping day. This was followed by Black Friday, Cyber Monday sale, the pre-Christm … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Scipy Spatial and Numpy Vectorize to Create a Distance Matrix

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@kanoki.org | 4 years ago

Nine things you love that are being wrecked by climate change

There are so many stories flying around about the horrors already being wrought by climate change, you're probably struggling to keep up. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

A 'pivotal' moment for understanding whale evolution

Scientists could soon better investigate the feeding behaviors of extinct dolphin and whale species. A third year student at Japan's Nagoya University has found that the range of motion offered by the joint between the head and neck in modern-day cetaceans, a group of marine mamm … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Photography Books to Become a Better Photographer

Giving your workflow the input of technical knowledge is crucial and wise. The following list will help you to make your workflow leaner… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Volkswagen accelerates electric car plans, now aims for 1.5M EVs in 2025

Volkswagen, already one of the most aggressive automakers when it comes to electrification, announced that it is accelerating its electric car plans and now aims for 1.5 million electric vehicles in 2025. In its original electrification plan, the German automaker had planned to r … | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 4 years ago

Instagram Data Saver Mode

We recently shipped Data Saver Mode, a new feature on Instagram for Android that helps the app consume less mobile data. In this post… | Continue reading


@instagram-engineering.com | 4 years ago

ShofEL2, a Tegra X1 and Nintendo Switch Exploit (2018)

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@fail0verflow.com | 4 years ago

Expert examines the models of political troll farms before they potentially target western democracies

A new report published by the NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence examines the four models of "fake news" factories employed in the political battlegrounds of the Philippines in an effort to understand this social media phenomenon as the trolls stand ready to expor … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Motor cortex requires continuous feedback to execute movement

The complex patterns of activity in motor cortex that control movements such as reach and grasp are dependent on both upstream neuronal activity in the thalamus and the current state of the cortex. | Continue reading


@nature.com | 4 years ago

New insight into how dividing cells control the separation of their dna

A study published today in the journal eLife has shown that a protein called Astrin is important for the timely and even separation of chromosomes during cell division. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Forces from Earth's spin may spark earthquakes and volcanic eruptions at Mount Etna

New research suggests forces pulling on Earth's surface as the planet spins may trigger earthquakes and eruptions at volcanoes. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Waiting for Betelgeuse: what's up with the tempestuous star?

Have you noticed that Orion the Hunter—one of the most iconic and familiar of the wintertime constellations—is looking a little… different as of late? The culprit is its upper shoulder star Alpha Orionis, aka Betelgeuse, which is looking markedly faint, the faintest it has been f … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Playing with old phones teaches children good habits, and reflects our bad ones back at us

Screens are everywhere, including in the palms of our hands. Children see how much time we adults spend on our smartphones, and therefore how much we seem to value these devices—and they want to be a part of it. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Device splits and recombines superconducting electron pairs

A device that can separate and recombine pairs of electrons may offer a way to study an unusual form of superconductivity, according to RIKEN physicists. This superconducting state would involve exotic particles called Majorana fermions that could prove useful in developing quant … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Small microplastics no longer slip through the cracks with novel method for detection

The exceptional properties of plastics, such as their chemical, light- and temperature-resistance, in combination with the low cost and ease of manufacturing have rendered them into one of the most popular and widely used materials over the last decades. The widespread use of pla … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Technique to recover phosphorus from urine

Phosphorus, number 15 on the periodic table, can be highly toxic and flammable and has been used in warfare as an incendiary device, yet it is also essential for life. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Why Japan Is Obsessed with Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christmas

Thanks to the successful “Kurisumasu ni wa kentakkii!” (Kentucky for Christmas!) marketing campaign in 1974, Japan can't get enough KFC on Christmas Day | Continue reading


@smithsonianmag.com | 4 years ago

Sedentary Behavior, Exercise, and Cardiovascular Health

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@ahajournals.org | 4 years ago

All You Need to Know About Zen

All You Need to Know About ZenI was once a philosophy major, but I got bored with it. Only a few philosophers seem to know or care a lot about science and many love paradoxes and infinite set... | Continue reading


@facebook.com | 4 years ago

0Is College Still Worth It? The New Calculusof Falling Returns

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@stlouisfed.org | 4 years ago

Is College Still Worth It? The New Calculus of Falling Returns [pdf]

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@stlouisfed.org | 4 years ago

Scientists Likely Found Way to Grow New Teeth for Patients

Tooth loss is an unfortunate health condition that people all over the world can suffer from. Whether from decay, gum disease, or fractures, you can experience tooth loss in a variety of ways. But what if there was a way to grow back those lost teeth? | Continue reading


@sciencetimes.com | 4 years ago

Arkaim

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@en.wikipedia.org | 4 years ago

5 Kid-Approved Salad Recipes

Do you have a hard time getting your kids to eat a salad? Making these 5 Kid-Approved Salad Recipes with your little ones might help! | Continue reading


@kidsactivitiesblog.com | 4 years ago

How NIST Tested Facial Recognition Algorithms for Racial Bias

Some algorithms were up to 100 times better at identifying white faces | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 4 years ago