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Calgary doctor says 40% drop in preterm births during lockdown is global trend
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CBC
Calgary doctor says 'dramatic' 40% drop in preterm births during lockdown could be global trend | CBC News
Doctors in countries including Denmark, Ireland, Australia, the U.S. and Canada have been reporting that fewer preterm babies are being born.
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1980s Yugoslavia’s Galaksija DIY computer
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TRIBUNE
Socialism’s DIY Computer
The Galaksija computer was a craze in 1980s Yugoslavia, inspiring thousands of people to build versions in their own homes. The idea behind them was simple – to make technology available to everyone.
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How Did the Casio F91W Become a Terrorist Icon?
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Reaper Feed
How did the Casio F91W Become a Terrorist Icon? » Reaper Feed
The Casio F91W has been worn by Osama bin Laden and used by Chechen bombers largely due to the rugged durability and bomb-making abilities of the F-19W.
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Remington Arms Declares Bankruptcy
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WSJ
Remington Arms Declares Bankruptcy Despite Surging Gun Demand
The firearms maker filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time since 2018, weighed down by more debt than it can repay even as fearful Americans buy more guns than ever.
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11M households could be evicted over the next four months
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Fast Company
11 million households could be evicted over the next four months
A new tool helps you see the contours of the approaching housing disaster.
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Not an Amazon Problem
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A new way to control experimentation with dreams
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MIT News
A new way to control experimentation with dreams
MIT Media Lab researchers introduced a new method for controlled experimentation with hypnagogic dreams. The Dormio: Targeted Dream Incubation protocol helps record dream reports and guides dreams toward particular themes at sleep onset. The work was led…
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The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014)
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Slate Star Codex
The Toxoplasma Of Rage
I. Some old news I only just heard about: PETA is offering to pay the water bills for needy Detroit families if (and only if) those families agree to stop eating meat. Predictably, the move caused …
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Proton irradiation decelerates intergranular corrosion of Ni-Cr alloys
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Nature Communications
Proton irradiation-decelerated intergranular corrosion of Ni-Cr alloys in molten salt
Better understanding the synergy between radiation and corrosion is necessary to deploy advanced nuclear reactors. Here, the authors contradict the misconception that radiation always results in deleterious effects and show that proton irradiation slows the…
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Corecursion and coinduction: how they relate to recursion and induction [pdf]
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Procedural cityscapes creation: Openstreetmap import in Unity and Houdini Engine
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Stina Flodström | Mars 2030 VR
Experience what it would be like to land on Mars
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We Don’t Need to Work So Much (2015)
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The New Yorker
You Really Don’t Need To Work So Much
The irony of the American economy is that the people at the top are often as unhappy and overworked as those at the bottom.
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WasmBoxC: Simple, Fast, and VM-Less Sandboxing
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kripken.github.io
WasmBoxC: Simple, Easy, and Fast VM-less Sandboxing
The software ecosystem has a lot of useful but unsafe code, and the easier it is to sandbox that code, the moreoften that’ll happen. If it were as simple as ...
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The Double-Entry Counting Method (2016)
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We thought it was just a respiratory virus
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We Thought It Was Just a Respiratory Virus | UCSF Magazine
We Thought It Was Just a Respiratory Virus
UCSF researchers are taking a closer look at COVID-19’s dizzying array of symptoms to get at the disease’s root causes.
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Intel Ponte Vecchio GPU Will Be Made on TSMC 6nm Process, CPUs Could Be TSMC 3nm
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Wccftech
Intel Ponte Vecchio GPU Will Be Made On TSMC’s 6nm Process, CPUs Could Be Made On TSMC 3nm As Well
Update: This leak has partially inaccurate information. Please refer to this exclusive for the full story. A huge report from DigiTimes has leaked out claiming that Intel's Ponte Vecchio GPU has found its home on TSMC's lower-cost 6nm process. The leak originally…
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Google’s Top Search Result? Surprise, It’s Google
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themarkup.org
Google’s Top Search Result? Surprise! It’s Google – The Markup
The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page
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Ask HN: I hate coding, but it's all thats on my resume. What do I do?
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Rite Aid deployed facial recognition systems in hundreds of U.S. stores
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Reuters
Rite Aid deployed facial recognition system in hundreds of U.S. stores
Rite Aid used facial recognition in largely lower-income, non-white neighborhoods. The systems included one from a firm with links to China and its government
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Banned math book
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John D. Cook | Applied Mathematics Consulting
Banned math book | Courant and Hilbert
The applied math classic Courant & Hilbert was banned in Nazi Germany. The US seized the copyright and published an English edition.
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Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W
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