Mad magazine to stop publishing issues with new content this fall

Mad magazine, the venerable satire publication, will stop publishing issues with new content this fall.The magazine, famous for the grinning face of character Alfred E. Neuman and his slogan, "What, me worry?", will stop publishing issues with new writing after issue No. 10, acco … | Continue reading


@abcnews.go.com | 4 years ago

The Great Illusion of Self [pdf]

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@bushwalkingholidays.com.au | 4 years ago

3 Earthquakes detected within minutes off B.C. coast

Three earthquakes registering between 4.5 and 5.6 magnitude were detected off the coast of B.C. Friday morning, a day after Southern California experienced a 6.4 magnitude earthquake. A geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey said the two are not related. | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 4 years ago

The Underworld of Online Content Moderation

The people tasked with cleaning up social-media platforms often work in secrecy, and many come away from the job disgusted with humanity. | Continue reading


@newyorker.com | 4 years ago

Podcasts, student support, and health reporting: here is your weekly journalism news update

Pushed for time? Catch up with the weekly media news coverage from Journalism.co.uk | Continue reading


@journalism.co.uk | 4 years ago

GetCents

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@getcents.com | 4 years ago

With little training, ML algorithms can uncover hidden scientific knowledge

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@m.techxplore.com | 4 years ago

A Tale of Two Ships [pdf]

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@thorconpower.com | 4 years ago

Show HN: Fan Shim – Active Cooling for Raspberry Pi 4

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@shop.pimoroni.com | 4 years ago

Scientists make breakthrough that enables rockets to orbit longer

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@chinadaily.com.cn | 4 years ago

A Woman’s View on ‘Getting Chicked’

Why should she apologize for being stronger or faster than a man? She shouldn't. | Continue reading


@adventure-journal.com | 4 years ago

Meritocracy Leads to Smugness?

By Stephen Davies | "The idea of meritocracy requires a totalitarian state if you are going to take it seriously." ~ Stephen Davies | Continue reading


@aier.org | 4 years ago

Tesla and other EVs will be overtaken by hydrogen cars by 2030

An automotive industry expert in Germany recently issued a bold dismissal of electric vehicles, declaring that EVs will be overtaken by hydrogen-powered cars. Before an audience, Dr. Felix Gress, head of Continental’s corporate communications and public affairs, argued that batte … | Continue reading


@teslarati.com | 4 years ago

Emacs Lisp on Repl.it

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@mobile.twitter.com | 4 years ago

The Limits of Open Source – Enhancing Satellite Imagery Through Deep Learning

The power of deep learning paired with collaborative human intelligence. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

How To Deal With Summer Learning Loss in Your Kids

Summer Slide is a real thing. You know your kids can lose a lot of ground over the summer if they don’t stay engaged in learning. How do you deal with it? | Continue reading


@kidsactivitiesblog.com | 4 years ago

Daily Podcast: ‘Midsommar’ Spoiler Review and Interviews with Ari Aster, Will Poulter, and Jack Reynor

On a special edition of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by managing editor Jacob Hall and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista for a spoiler-filled discussion of writer/director Ari Aster‘s new film, Midsommar. Then, you’ll hear interviews with Aster … | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

New city lot for homeless RV dwellers mostly unused

More than two weeks since its opening, a city-owned parking lot near SDCCU Stadium for homeless people living in recreational vehicles sits almost empty | Continue reading


@sandiegouniontribune.com | 4 years ago

Betternet VPN Is Selling Your Data and Contains Suspicious Malware

Ranks 50th out of 51 First things first. The screenshot you see on the right is NOT Betternet. It has Betternet name, hip new-age look, a domain name, and a friendly logo, but underneath its HotSpotShield. Back in 2015 when I heard about Betternet being launched, I was excited to … | Continue reading


@vpntesting.com | 4 years ago

Year-round 70 degree weather road trip (2015)

The journey covers 13,235 miles of consistent high temps. | Continue reading


@citylab.com | 4 years ago

Adding 1B hectares of forest could help check global warming

Trees could remove two-thirds of human-caused emissions | Continue reading


@sciencemag.org | 4 years ago

How ‘Fortnite’ changed the way video games were marketed

How Fortnite flipped the growth funnel on its head and forever changed the way video games are marketed. | Continue reading


@marketingexamples.com | 4 years ago

The New Jira Experience

The new jira experience is full of bugs and inefficiencies.  I had it turned off, but now it looks like I'm stuck with it for good.  Is that true that I can't use the old one anymore. For me it's really awful- bad enough that i would consider dumping jira.   Several issues 1- Nav … | Continue reading


@community.atlassian.com | 4 years ago

Prime Day’s Best Sellers by Year

What will people buy on Prime Day 2019? Look to previous years’ best sellers for clues. | Continue reading


@thewirecutter.com | 4 years ago

Why not being a jerk is important to your happiness and success

This NYU professor makes the case for criticizing people less and complimenting people more. | Continue reading


@fastcompany.com | 4 years ago

Council of Canadian Academies: Canada’s Top Climate Change Risks

The climate is changing, with temperatures in Canada rising at twice the global average. Over... | Continue reading


@cca-reports.ca | 4 years ago

Plant-Based Meat Startups Have Cracked Beef, but What About Chicken?

Plant-based ground beef has become a staple at several fast food restaurants across the US. Now food retailers are demanding other alternatives, but creating viable plant-based alternatives for other food types like dairy, seafood, muscle cuts, and poultry could prove trickier. I … | Continue reading


@agfundernews.com | 4 years ago

The good voting systems agreement

Find out about this historic cross-party consensus on Proportional Representation and how to get it! | Continue reading


@makevotesmatter.org.uk | 4 years ago

Emotions and Clouds

Emotions can play an important role in how we think and behave. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Reasons Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) Are Stressed at Work

Organizational stress should be acknowledged as a real problem of CISOs, as this poses a problem to an employee’s wellbeing, affecting their performance. | Continue reading


@quandora.com | 4 years ago

A Journey from Martian Orbiters to Terrestrial Neural Networks

Introducing a Python Package to process data from Mars efficiently | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Building AI for Good, by the People, for the People

‘’A group of strangers from different corners of the Earth, who have never met each other before; transcending geographical borders and… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

FSF is trying to recruit 200 new associate members by July 15th

‘’A group of strangers from different corners of the Earth, who have never met each other before; transcending geographical borders and… | Continue reading


@my.fsf.org | 4 years ago

Why Everyone Needs to Take PTSD Seriously – Can AI Help?

The most violent element in society is ignorance. Can AI help? | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Understand Personality to Redesign Team Relationships

Part 1: Interpersonal dynamics | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Neoliner: Pilot for trans-atlantic cargo transport by sailing ship

The NEOLINE solution : an innovative, safe and efficient ro-ro vessel for stable and competitively priced freight transport on a transatlantic route. | Continue reading


@neoline.eu | 4 years ago

Thirsty Boxer Hilariously Tries to Drink From Garden Hose Spray While Sitting Behind a Glass Window

A goofy boxer named Zara who was sitting in the window watching her human work in the garden. Every time the garden hose spray was directed at the window | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 4 years ago

Bug Report Zine: Issue 1

Bug Report! Zine Issue #1Published in Seattle, WA.An imposed, ready-to-print version is available here:https://archive.org/details/BugReportIssue1Booklet | Continue reading


@archive.org | 4 years ago

Struggling to find great entry-level talent? Fix your job descriptions

Lately, I've been all over LinkedIn looking for entry-level roles. Not because I've suddenly reversed my career direction, but because I co-founded a nonprofit called FutureMap to help recent first-generation college graduates navigate their careers post-undergrad. | Continue reading


@linkedin.com | 4 years ago

Tech and the Fake Market Tactic

Tech helped Fake Markets took over Free Markets without media or politicians even noticing. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

Robots Made Out of Branches Use Deep Learning to Walk

Researchers used deep reinforcement learning to teach these strange robots how to move | Continue reading


@spectrum.ieee.org | 4 years ago

Watch What Happens When You Ride ‘Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run’ Without Touching ANY Controls

Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run, the first ride to open in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, puts you in the cockpit of the most famous hunk of junk in the galaxy. It’s a fully-interactive motion simulator which puts you and a group of five people on a smuggling mission with Han Solo’s … | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

The Best Credit Cards for Amazon Prime Day Shopping

If you’re planning a purchase, big or small, on Amazon’s Prime Day 2019, make sure you’re using a credit card that can maximize your rewards. | Continue reading


@thewirecutter.com | 4 years ago

“A simpler interpolation pattern with {{ }}” – New syntax for tidyeval/tidyverse

rlang 0.4.0 is now on CRAN! | Continue reading


@tidyverse.org | 4 years ago

Enviromental Scientist's Lecture about the Viable Strategies for Decarbonization

Strategies for Deep Decarbonization of the Electricity SectorJesse Jenkins,Postdoctoral Environmental Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School | Continue reading


@mediasite.engr.wisc.edu | 4 years ago

What your teacher thinks of you affects your performance

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@massivesci.com | 4 years ago

Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux

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@maizure.org | 4 years ago

Toronto tech workers now make an average of $100K per year

The people powering Toronto's booming tech sector may not make as much money as their counterparts in Silicon Valley — I mean, not even close — but... | Continue reading


@blogto.com | 4 years ago