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David Rosenhan’s fraudulent Thud experiment set back psychiatry for decades
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The Spectator
How a fraudulent experiment set psychiatry back decades
In the 1970s, a social psychologist published ‘findings’ deeply critical of American psychiatric methods. The problem was they were almost entirely fictional
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Pygame Zero: Creating games without boilerplate
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Why did we wait so long for the cotton gin? (2017)
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The Roots of Progress
Why did we wait so long for the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney’s cotton gin, invented in 1793, is rightfully one of the most famous inventions of the Industrial Revolution. It separates the lint of the cotton plant, which thread and ultimately cloth is made of, from the sticky seeds—a process that, done by…
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Chord Transformations and Beethoven (2011) [pdf]
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Photo of a suspended, glowing single atom wins photography prize
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Big Think
Quantum physicist photographs a single atom you can see with the naked eye
Ever think you’d see a single atom without staring down the barrel of a microscope?
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Correct SRGB Dithering
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Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus
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The Lancet
Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
The 2019-nCoV infection caused clusters of severe respiratory illness similar to severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and was associated with ICU admission and high
mortality. Major gaps in our knowledge of the origin, epidemiology, duration of human…
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Unison: A Content-Addressable Programming Language
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www.unison-lang.org
Learn Unison |
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A tour of Unison · Unison programming language
A friendly programming language from the future.
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Detroit's salt mine: City beneath the city
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Detroitnews
Detroit's salt mine: City beneath the city
This gigantic mine, 1,160 feet beneath the surface, spreads out over more than 1,400 acres with 50 miles of roads
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iOS First Impressions (2018)
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How to Contribute to Open Source Software
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Kill All Defects
How to Contribute to Open Source Software - Kill All Defects
In this article I'll share my first time working with a major open source project and help you get started and see how cool contributing to open source is.
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Ask HN: How do you currently solve authentication?
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Wolf Pups That Play Fetch
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NY Times
What Wolf Pups That Play Fetch Reveal About Your Dog (Published 2020)
If wolf pups will retrieve a ball for a stranger, no training necessary, maybe dogs’ wild ancestors were also ready for human games.
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A curated list of websites for learning college math, higher math and beyond
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“My wife has complained that open office will never print on Tuesdays? ”
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Launchpad
Comment #28 : Bug #255161 : Bugs : cupsys package : Ubuntu
What a fascinating bug!! My wife has complained that open office will never print on Tuesdays!?! Then she demonstrated it. Sure enough, won't print on Tuesday. Other applications print. I think this is the same bug. Here is my guess:
Print to a postnoscript…
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Using Mixed Integer Programming to Assign Air Cargo to Flights
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Medium
Using Mixed Integer Programming to Assign Air Cargo to Flights
In a previous post we outlined the basics of supply and demand in the world of air freight forwarding, and described the difficult problem…
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Artist made only $2,700 in royalties from 43M plays on Pandora (2014)
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Business Insider
Pharrell Made Only $2,700 In Songwriter Royalties From 43 Million Plays Of 'Happy' On Pandora
A million streams of a song on Pandora yields just $60 in royalties for an artist.
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Ubuntu 20.04 drops Amazon web app
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Wine 5.0 Released
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WineHQ
Wine 5.0 Released
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Rat Had 'No Brain' and Somehow Lived a Normal Life
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Technology Networks
This Rat Had 'No Brain' and It Somehow Lived a Normal Life
The rat could see, hear, smell, and feel just like its peers, even though it was walking around with basically no brain.
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Into the Personal-Website-Verse
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Matthias Ott
Into the Personal-Website-Verse
Discover why personal websites are the backbone of the independent web. Learn how to build, connect, and maintain your own space on the internet.
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