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Mastodon makes the internet feel like home again
I have been using the open source Twitter competitor for almost a year, and I love it.
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The Book That Made Me a Feminist Was Written by an Abuser
‘The Mists of Avalon’ changed my life—how do I reconcile that with what I now know about its author? By Jessica Jernigan.
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Secret Link Uncovered Between Pure Math and Physics
Mathematics is full of weird number systems that most people have never heard of and would have trouble even conceptualizing. But rational numbers are familiar. They’re the counting numbers and the fractions—all the numbers you’ve known since elementary school. But in mathematics, the simplest things are often the hardest to understand. They’re simple like a sheer wall, without crannies or ledges or obvious properties you can grab ahold of.
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Here's Why You Should Never Throw Out Those Annoying Silica Sachets Again
Anyone who's ever bought a new electronic device or pair of shoes will be all too familiar with those little "DO NOT EAT" sachets that come in the box. These free sachets can be really useful.
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I’m a Depression historian. The GOP tax bill is straight out of 1929.
Republicans are again sprinting toward an economic cliff.
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Decoding the music masterpieces: Bach’s Six Solo Cello Suites
Johann Sebastian Bach was 30 when he became head of music in Anhalt-Cöthen, in what is now Germany. Here he started an uncharted experiment in classical music: solo works for string instruments.
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The Little Black Box That Took Over Piracy
The Kodi box pitch is hard to resist. A little black plastic square, in look not much different from a Roku or Apple TV, and similar in function as well. This streamer, though, offers something those others never will: Free access to practically any show or movie you can dream of. No rental fees. No subscriptions. Just type in the name of a blockbuster, and start watching a high-definition stream in seconds.
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Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in insect numbers
The abundance of flying insects has plunged by three-quarters over the past 25 years, according to a new study that has shocked scientists. Insects are an integral part of life on Earth as both pollinators and prey for other wildlife and it was known that some species such as butterflies were declining. But the newly revealed scale of the losses to all insects has prompted warnings that the world is “on course for ecological Armageddon”, with profound impacts on human society.
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Six Horrifying Parasites (That Could Be Inside You Right Now)
Warning: Gross pics contained within. By Leanne Louie.
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Monsanto’s dirty dozen.
When you take a moment to reflect on the history of product development at Monsanto, what do you find? Here are twelve products that Monsanto has brought to market. (2011)
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This Tiny Country Feeds the World
The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant by showing what the future of farming could look like.
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We're racing towards another private debt crisis – so why did no one see it coming?
This is a call for a public inquiry on the current situation regarding private debt. For almost a decade now, since 2007, we have been living a lie. And that lie is preparing to wreak havoc on our economy. If we do not create some kind of impartial forum to discuss what is actually happening, the results might well prove disastrous.
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Free digital archive makes over 50 million pieces of European art available online.
The Europeana Collections has over 50 million pieces of European history in its digital archive from more than 3,000 institutions. The Europeana Photography collection, which has over 2 million photographs. Music, art, fashion, sport, natural history, and maps and geography are some of the other collections. More than 3 million of the archives are openly licensed, meaning you can use them for any purpose, and many of the images are available in high resolution.
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Surgery Is One Hell Of A Placebo
The rituals -- fasting, wearing a hospital gown, undergoing anesthesia -- foster an expectation that the procedure will provide relief.
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The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates
Hospitals and pharmacies are required to toss expired drugs, no matter how expensive or vital. Meanwhile the FDA has long known that many remain safe and potent for years longer.
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Why the "You" in an Afterlife Wouldn't Really Be You
Memories, points of view and the self
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You can't even text and walk
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Heartburn drugs may increase risk of early death, study says
Taking proton-pump inhibitors, commonly prescribed to people with acid reflux, was related to an increased risk of early death from any cause, a new study finds.
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It's not Islam that drives young Europeans to jihad, France's top terrorism expert...
Olivier Roy, one of France’s top experts on Islamic terrorism, tells Haaretz how assailants like Salman Abedi in Manchester turn into 'new radicals' who crave death
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Monsanto accused in court of conducting an army of shills to crackdown on negative online comments
In a San Francisco federal court case, the plaintiff accused GMO giants Monsanto of hiring third-parties who hide their association with the company to respond to negative online comments, also known as ‘shills’.
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This New Browser Plug-in Lets You Access Millions of Scientific Papers for Free
If you're of the mindset that knowledge should be freely accessible to as many humans as possible, paywalls for academic journals can be downright frustrating. Now a free browser extension is promising to bust through those paywalls wherever...
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How US nuclear force modernization is undermining strategic stability: The burst-height...
Modernization, or first-strike capability? By Hans M. Kristensen, Matthew McKinzie, Theodore A. Postol.
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The Balanced Ternary Machines of Soviet Russia
A look at the balanced ternary notation and it’s use in Setun, a Soviet computer. By Andrew Buntine.
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A growing number of people think their job is useless. Time to rethink the meaning of work.
A great deal has been written in recent years about the perils of automation. With predicted mass unemployment, declining wages, and increasing inequality, clearly we should all be afraid. By now it’s no longer just the Silicon Valley trend watchers and technoprophets who are apprehensive. In a study that has already racked up several hundred citations, scholars at Oxford University have estimated that no less than 47% of all American jobs and 54% of those in Europe are at a high risk of being usurped by machines.
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Darktable - An Adobe Lightroom Alternative for Linux
Darktable is an Open Source workflow app and raw developer for photography. Picture it as your virtual zoomable light table and darkroom at the same time.
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Darwin Was a Slacker and You Should Be Too
When you examine the lives of history’s most creative figures, you are immediately confronted with a paradox: They organize their lives around their work, but not their days. Figures as different as Charles Dickens, Henri Poincaré, and Ingmar Bergman, working in disparate fields in different times, all shared a passion for their work, a terrific ambition to succeed, and an almost superhuman capacity to focus.
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Sideways Dictionary
Sideways dictionary — it's like a dictionary, but using analogies instead of definitions. Use it as a tool for finding and sharing helpful analogies to explain technological ideas. Because if everyone understands technology better, we can make technology work better for everyone.
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An Epidemic of Unnecessary Treatment
Long after research contradicts common medical practices, patients continue to demand them and physicians continue to deliver.
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Decoding Death: The Science and Significance of Near Death Experiences
People have reported “near death experiences”, or NDE’s, over centuries and across cultures. The nature of them has historically been the territory of religion and philosophy. But now science has staked its claim in the discussion. And the questions are profound: where is consciousness produced, in the brain, or somewhere else? Can consciousness continue to exist even after the heart and brain have stopped working? Contributor Ashley Walters explores the science and the meaning of near death experiences. [Audio program]
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3D embryo atlas reveals human development in unprecedented detail
The beautiful and otherworldly development of the human embryo has been revealed in unprecedented detail in an interactive three-dimensional atlas. The digital models, built by a team of scientists in the Netherlands, took around 45,000 hours to produce and offer researchers an unparalleled glimpse into the first eight weeks of human development.