Post Overview
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Current Event
5 years ago+22 22 0Butch Cassidy and Princess Bride scriptwriter William Goldman dies aged 87
Key member of 1970s New Hollywood generation won two Oscars for his screenplays
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Analysis
5 years ago+32 32 0 x 1New Study Details Toxic Particles Spewed by 3D Printers
Researchers have that found that 3D printers spew tiny particles into the air as they operate, though the quantity and nature of these potentially toxic aerosols are poorly understood. A new study identifies a startling variety of these emissions, an ...
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Expression
5 years ago+37 37 0 x 1What Do Our Oldest Books Say About Us?
On the ineffable magic of four little manuscripts of Old English poetry
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Expression
5 years ago+35 35 0 x 1How Writers Map Their Imaginary Worlds
A new book collects fantastic literary geographies.
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Current Event
5 years ago+32 32 0 x 1Florida man, Cesar Sayoc Jr., arrested in probe of mail bombs targeting Obama, Clinton and others
A person was taken into custody in connection with the ongoing investigation of 12 suspected mail bombs sent to former president Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and other leading critics of President Donald Trump.
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Current Event
5 years ago+3 3 0Nasa photographs rectangular iceberg
Nasa has released a striking photo of a rectangular iceberg floating in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica.
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Image
5 years ago+17 17 02018 on the web
This stuff doesn't work, it just makes visitors want to leave and never come back.
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Expression
5 years ago+11 11 0Shane Dawson’s Jake Paul series is really about YouTube’s broken heart
YouTube’s creators do some soul-searching.
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Analysis
5 years ago+23 23 0Ultimate Writer: an Open Digital Typewriter
I love my typewriter. You can write stories without having to wait for your computer to boot, you cannot be distracted by some kind of notification or the urge to check your favorite online place every half an hour.
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Video/Audio
5 years ago+33 33 0 x 1Inside The Most Precise Atomic Clock in the World
From his basement lab in Boulder, Colorado, physicist Jun Ye and his team have built the world’s most precise atomic clock. The clock is so powerful it can measure otherwise imperceptible changes in the physical world.
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Analysis
5 years ago+28 28 0 x 1It took 8 years but Mozilla finally embraced Google's WebP image format for a faster web
Now Apple's Safari is the only major holdout.
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Expression
5 years ago+22 22 0Why the novel matters in the age of anger
In the 2018 New Statesman / Goldsmiths Prize lecture, Elif Shafak explains why – in a world ruled by fear and division – novelists no longer have the luxury of being apolitical.
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Current Event
5 years ago+32 32 0 x 1Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees
Amazon and CEO Jeff Bezos have been facing criticism for its pay disparity.
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Expression
5 years ago+35 35 0 x 1Tiny Device Is a ‘Huge Advance’ for Treatment of Severe Heart Failure
A clip used to repair damaged heart valves sharply reduced deaths among patients with a grim prognosis.
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Expression
5 years ago+32 33 1 x 2Why I’m done with Chrome
This blog is mainly reserved for cryptography, and I try to avoid filling it with random 512px-Google_Chrome_icon_(September_2014).svg“someone is wrong on the Internet” posts. After all, that’s what Twitter is for! But from time to time something bot ...
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Analysis
5 years ago+38 38 0 x 1Scientists discover why many Alzheimer’s drugs fail and identify one that may work
'There haven’t been any new drugs last 15 years, so it’s very promising to have uncovered a reason why some of that research may have failed'
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Expression
5 years ago+18 18 0Strictly analogue: Polaroid's past, present and future – a photo essay
Guardian photographer Christian Sinibaldi tours the world’s last Polaroid film factory, in the Netherlands, the only remaining factory still making film for the much-loved instant cameras
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Analysis
5 years ago+24 24 0Inside the luxury Soviet airport that now faces demolition in Armenia
It was the height of luxury when it was built in 1971 near the Armenian capital Yerevan. Now stepping inside Zvartnots airport's abandoned terminal is like being transported back four decades.
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Analysis
5 years ago+25 25 0Senate passes copyright bill to end 140-year protection for old songs
The Senate just passed a major copyright bill—here's what it does.
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Analysis
5 years ago+19 19 0China appears to be accelerating development of a super-heavy lift rocket
The Long March 9 rocket would be on par with the Saturn V booster.