✚ Breckenridge Whiskey Barrels: Wallpaper Background

Breckenridge, Colorado is one of the best towns in Colorado. It’s beautiful. It’s full of great things to do. It has a bunch of excellent food and drink spots. And, arguably, it’s home to one of th… | Continue reading


@shawnblanc.net | 4 years ago

'Let's design a waterproof shoe for a refugee child': how to teach science and maths so students actually care

In a May 2019 speech, Australia's Chief Scientist, Alan Finkel, noted participation in science and maths was slipping in Australian schools. Specifically speaking about STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), he said: | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Rock Climbing and the Economics of Innovation

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@softmachines.org | 4 years ago

Who Owns Silicon Valley?

A look at Silicon Valley's largest landowners helps trace how we got to where we are today — astronomical housing prices, the disappearance of manufacturing and a squeezed middle class. Those findings are from a year-long collaborative reporting project that analyzed more than 50 … | Continue reading


@extras.mercurynews.com | 4 years ago

Delhi’s Toxic Sky

Alan Taylor in The Atlantic: Millions of people in Delhi, India, and neighboring states are struggling to cope with eye-watering smog that has settled on the region—creating some of the worst air quality in years. Government authorities have declared a public-health emergency, cl … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 4 years ago

Slack Rules of Life

Create a new channel for every project. Invite the right people to join the channel to work on it. Every project has a beginning, and it has an ending as well. Don’t start a channel if you… | Continue reading


@seths.blog | 4 years ago

Microservices Architecture with Node

I have worked with Microservices architecture in the past and in fact, this website is built with Microservices architecture style. I have given a talk on Microservices in various meetups including DigitalOcean and Microsoft. In this article, I am going to explain to you about th … | Continue reading


@codeforgeek.com | 4 years ago

Microsoft's Edge browser is officially coming to Linux soon

During a session at its Ignite 2019 conference today, Microsoft confirmed that its Chromium-based Edge browser is coming to Linux, something that the company has previously teased. | Continue reading


@neowin.net | 4 years ago

Why Is Pisano Happy with Clojure?

At Pisano, we build a sophisticated customer experience solution for organizations. Since our motto is speed and reliability, we choose… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Why Meetings Go Wrong (And How to Fix Them)

Steven Rogelberg, a professor at UNC Charlotte, has spent decades researching workplace meetings and reports that many of them are a waste of time. Why? Because the vast majority of managers aren’t trained in or reviewed on effective meeting management. He explains how leaders ca … | Continue reading


@hbr.org | 4 years ago

As climate warms, plants may demand more water, cutting supplies for people

As climate changes, plants in North America, much of Eurasia, and parts of central and South America will consume more water than they do now, leading to less water for people, according to a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience. The research suggests a drier future despite … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Open source is cool and here's how to start (and get paid)

Browse functional programming jobs, salaries, blogs and learning resources! Scala jobs, Clojure jobs, Haskell jobs and more. | Continue reading


@functional.works-hub.com | 4 years ago

The Ham-Handed, Money-Driven Mangling of Sports Illustrated and Deadspin

How new owners brought about the demise of a leading sports Web site and the decline of its legacy-media predecessor. | Continue reading


@newyorker.com | 4 years ago

In Xinjiang, China stages prayers, street scenes for visiting delegations

China has staged intricately managed scenes filled with pedestrians, street vendors and drivers played by people – police officers, teachers, retirees – who have been screened by the authorities and assigned their role | Continue reading


@theglobeandmail.com | 4 years ago

Facebook Libra Is Architecturally Unsound

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@stephendiehl.com | 4 years ago

The New Microsoft Office – One App to Rule Them All

Microsoft Office has released its new Android and iOS app, simply called ‘Office’ which combines Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in one app. See all the features | Continue reading


@expd8.com | 4 years ago

More countries than ever hit by forest fires in 2018

Today, the JRC published the 2018 edition of its Annual Report on Forest Fires in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. According to the report, wildfires destroyed nearly 178,000 hectares (ha) of forests and land in the EU last year. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Daylight Saving Time gripe assistant tool

In a follow-up to a map from a few years back, Andy Woodruff provides a gripe assistant tool for Daylight Saving Time. Plug in your preferences for an ideal day, and you can see if you’re in … | Continue reading


@flowingdata.com | 4 years ago

Is Death Reversible?

Christopher Koch in Scientific American: You will die, sooner or later. We all will. For everything that has a beginning has an end, an ineluctable consequence of the second law of thermodynamics. Few of us like to think about this troubling fact. But once birthed, the thought of … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 4 years ago

Peter Thiel's Stanford Course on Startups

Peter Thiel has many claims to fame in Silicon Valley. He co-founded PayPal in 1998, before selling it to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. He later launched various hedge funds, and made early investments in Facebook. | Continue reading


@openculture.com | 4 years ago

Telling Time, 1980s-Style: Timex Brings Back the Retro T80 Digital Watch

How does an old-school watchmaker compete with the Apple Watch and other smartwatches? If you're a company with a long history like Timex, you don't; you go back and mine the brand's history, hoping to hit that nostalgia nerve with consumers. Timex is bringing back the T80, | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

What 3,000-year-old Egyptian wheat tells us about the genetics of our daily bread

Human societies need food—and that often means wheat, which was first cultivated more than 12,000 years ago. Today, around one in five calories consumed by humans is from wheat. Over this time, humans have moved wheat species around the globe and transformed them through cultivat … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

M4 (Forecasting) Competition

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@sciencedirect.com | 4 years ago

Kagglers took several weeks to beat the AutoML benchmark

Google AutoML now available to 3.5 million data scientists on Kaggle | Continue reading


@cloud.google.com | 4 years ago

Adobe Photoshop on iPad (Launched)

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@adobe.com | 4 years ago

Algorithms seek out voter fraud

Concerns over voter fraud have surged in recent years, especially after federal officials reported that Russian hackers attempted to access voter records in the 2016 presidential election. Administrative voting errors have been reported, too; for example, an audit by state offici … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Detection Free Human Instance Segmentation Using Pose2Seg and PyTorch

Taking into consideration the uniqueness of Human | Continue reading


@towardsdatascience.com | 4 years ago

The Universe Might Be a Giant Loop

What shape is space? | Continue reading


@livescience.com | 4 years ago

Laser pulses create topological state in graphene

Discovering ways to control the topological aspects of quantum materials is an important research frontier because it can lead to desirable electrical and spin transport properties for future device technologies. Now MPSD scientists have discovered a pioneering laser-driven appro … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

SMART discovers breakthrough way to look at the surface of nanoparticles, accelerating nano-engineering of materials

Researchers from SMART, MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, have made a groundbreaking discovery that allows scientists to "look" at the surface density of dispersed nanoparticles. This revolutionary technique enables researchers to characterize' or understand the properties … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

The simple physics behind algal movement towards light

A new study from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) describes how certain algae collectively sense and respond to light, a phenomenon called phototaxis. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Lego Launches Braille Bricks for Children to Learn Braille

LEGO Foundation and LEGO Group announced their new project to help blind and visually impaired children learn Braille through custom LEGO Braille Bricks. | Continue reading


@design-milk.com | 4 years ago

Obfuscation as a Privacy Tool

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@schneier.com | 4 years ago

The Inspection Paradox Is Everywhere

The inspection paradox is a statistical illusion you’ve probably never heard of. But once you learn about it, you see it everywhere. | Continue reading


@towardsdatascience.com | 4 years ago

Buildings Are Bad for the Climate

Green concrete, heat pumps, and other innovations. | Continue reading


@gatesnotes.com | 4 years ago

Minimalist game race with an LED strip

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@openledrace.mystrikingly.com | 4 years ago

Gardena IoT Gateway [pdf]

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@static.sched.com | 4 years ago

Don't Put Fat Jars in Docker Images

Why fat jars in a Docker container is not a good idea and how we can easily do better | Continue reading


@phauer.com | 4 years ago

Arctic islands 8 degrees warmer than normal

After the hottest Arctic summer on record follows the warmest ever fall. | Continue reading


@thebarentsobserver.com | 4 years ago

Seismic buys Percolate, expands content planning tools

Seismic users will now have access to Percolate's content marketing orchestration and planning tools. | Continue reading


@marketingland.com | 4 years ago

5 Delicious Desserts for your Thanksgiving Dinner!

Still looking for a dessert for Thanksgiving? Here are 5 Delicious Desserts for your Thanksgiving Dinner! Your family will be very impresssed! | Continue reading


@kidsactivitiesblog.com | 4 years ago

Is the Universe a Giant Loop?

A new study suggests the cosmos may be curved in upon itself like a ball—but many experts remain unconvinced | Continue reading


@scientificamerican.com | 4 years ago

Typing errors: Dvorak is not better than QWERTY

The standard typewriter keyboard is Exhibit A in the hottest new case against markets. But the evidence has been cooked. | Continue reading


@reason.com | 4 years ago

How to Achieve Your Goals

Achieve,goals, dreams | Continue reading


@nsikakusen466.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

AppStories, Episode 137 – Our Third Annual Apple Watch Check-In

On this week’s episode of AppStories, in what has become an annual tradition, we talk about how how we’ve set up our Apple Watches, including the complications we use, the third-party apps on which we rely, and what’s in our Watch docks. Sponsored by: Kolide – User focused securi … | Continue reading


@macstories.net | 4 years ago

Show HN: Codelapse.com

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@codelapse.com | 4 years ago

Yoga Relieves Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms, Rutgers Study Finds (2014)

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@news.rutgers.edu | 4 years ago

The Open Handbook of Formal Epistemology

In formal epistemology, we use mathematical methods to explore the questions of epistemology and rational choice. What can we know? What should we believe and how strongly? How should we act ... | Continue reading


@philpapers.org | 4 years ago