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Here is the best anime of the decade, from sweeping action stories to brainy science fiction to more low-key relationship tales. | Continue reading
Efforts to save many endangered animals from extinction are doomed to fail as conservationists are not taking climate change into account | Continue reading
Hannah Stamler at Artforum: Unlike Armstrong or Cukor, who stay true to Alcott’s timeline, Gerwig begins in the middle of the narrative, depicting the second half of the book while weaving in scenes drawn from the first. We open on the March sisters in their late teens or early t … | Continue reading
2019 was a banner year for data exposures, with billions of people affected. | Continue reading
Mallika Rao at The Believer: Jugaad is a hack, a hustle, a fix. It’s a lot from a little, the best with what you’ve got—which is likely not much, if you need jugaad. A “very DU word,” a Delhi University grad once explained to me, and I thought about how college students as a rule … | Continue reading
Andrew Elrod in Dissent: A facility that saw 53,000 emergency room visits per year disappeared from Philadelphia this summer with the prolonged and still-unfinished closure of Hahnemann University Hospital. The 496-bed hospital employed 2,700 people and saw 17,000 admissions in 2 … | Continue reading
The Long March-5 rocket, China's largest carrier rocket, was successfully launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province on Friday night. | Continue reading
Surface electromyography (sEMG) is widely used to investigate human motion including athletic performance. Baseball pitchers require very precise movements to pitch the ball to the strike zone, where the palm muscle plays a key role during movement. Recording the sEMG from the pa … | Continue reading
Cira, the organization that manages the .ca top-level domain, is offering a free stock photo library featuring typically Canadia | Continue reading
Everyone thinks they’re hiring the top 1%. Martin Fowler: “We are still working hard to hire only the very top fraction of software developers (the target is around the top 0.5 to … | Continue reading
Central Asia, between China and Europe, is bustling | Continue reading
The company said it will pause political advertising in early 2020. | Continue reading
Gartner for Marketers provides latest insights on marketing research, benchmarks, tools, analysis and strategies that help you achieve your business goals | Continue reading
Gartner for Marketers provides latest insights on marketing research, benchmarks, tools, analysis and strategies that help you achieve your business goals | Continue reading
When you tell AI to produce world peace and it kills everyone. (Okay, some SF writers saw that one coming.) | Continue reading
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Galen Strawson in The Guardian: There is no escape from this dilemma – either all matter is conscious, or consciousness is something distinct from matter”: Alfred Russel Wallace put the point succinctly in 1870, and it is hard to see how his colleague Charles Darwin, the great ev … | Continue reading
New year, new rights. | Continue reading
Planing around vacations, sick days, maternity leave, conferences, etc.? Pivotal Tracker's "Team Strength" feature may be exactly what you're looking for. | Continue reading
Today, I look back at the year in media — from the best to the worst to the odd to the inspiring and everything in between. | Continue reading
This paper appeared in PODC 2019, and is by Maofan Yin, Dahlia Malkhi, Michael K. Reiter, Guy Golan Gueta, and Ittai Abraham. The paper pre... | Continue reading
Fast-casual chains like Sweetgreen and order-ahead apps like MealPal are optimizing lunchtime to death. | Continue reading
China is clear to embark on ambitious exploration and space station missions following a successful return-to-flight Friday of the Long March 5. | Continue reading
The future is high-end Chinese food. | Continue reading
To makowy biszkopt przekładany masą budyniową i żurawiną, udekorowny polewą z białej czekolady. Idealne ciasto na świąteczny okres. Jakie są zalety tego wypieku? Ciasto nie jest przesłodzone. Wychodzi go dość sporo, jest podzielne i utrzymuje świeżość bardzo długo, nawet do tygod … | Continue reading
Not traveling alone? Tips, advice and links geared towards traveling families and seniors on how to make the most of your trip. It can be done cheaply! | Continue reading
Russian astronomer Valery Kozhevnikov has conducted photometric observations of the cataclysmic variable (CV) IPHAS J013031.89+622132.3 (J0130 for short), finding that the object exhibits deep eclipses. The discovery, presented in a paper published December 17 on arXiv.org, could … | Continue reading
I recently stumbled upon a web project from about 17 years ago that really put into perspective how far certain technologies have come in the last couple of decades. The project was a travel "blog" | Continue reading
We made it, minions! Another Christmas in the bag! Minions? | Continue reading
Maple Techno is a chatbot for sellers on facebook pages. sell now and offer your products, and start receiving orders easily! | Continue reading
When it comes to reasoning, identity trumps truth. | Continue reading
7 years ago I wrote an article about speed reading. Turns out I made a lot of mistakes. Discover why speed reading might not be as useful as expected. | Continue reading
There are a lot of mobile and web solutions to collect data using digital forms. May be you can think that they are similar, you can… | Continue reading
A feature-by-feature reference guide to the two most popular programming languages on Ethereum | Continue reading
Okay, I have been using my X1E2 for a little while now. Very mixed feelings about the device, aside of the poor battery life and couple other bugs my keyboard is missing keystrokes constantly, it's like the laptop is lagging altought there is nothing happening on the backround. T … | Continue reading