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1000 Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection
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A Thousand Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection
Professors are starting to orient Charles Darwin within a rich history of people from all cultures who have grappled with the mechanisms of life.
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France: Thousands of protesters wrongly punished under draconian laws
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Amnesty International
France: Thousands of protesters wrongly punished under draconian laws in pre and post COVID-19 crackdown
Three years after Emmanuel Macron made an election pledge to protect the right to peaceful assembly, peaceful protest faces an unprecedented attack
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The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)
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The Tyranny of Stuctureless
The Tyranny of Stuctureless by Jo Freeman
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The magic of mushrooms forces us to rethink what intelligence means
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Prospect Magazine
The magic of mushrooms forces us to rethink what intelligence means - Prospect Magazine
The astonishing secrets of fungal life raise profound questions
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The Jim Roskind C/C++ Grammar (2018)
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New study suggests handwriting engages the brain more than typing
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New study suggests handwriting engages the brain more than typing
A new study out of Norway suggests that handwriting and drawing engages the brain far more than typing on a keyboard, after measuring the brain activity of children and young adults performing these tasks.
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How Michael Stonebraker let SQL became the industry standard
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The Holistics Blog
A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival
A short story about SQL's better rival: Michael Stonebraker's storied query language, QUEL.
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Internet of Plastic Things, No Batteries or Electronics Required
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IEEE Spectrum
Here Comes the Internet of Plastic Things, No Batteries or Electronics Required
Detergent containers and pill bottles could soon order their own refills
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Twitter: Additional steps we're taking ahead of the 2020 US Election
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Additional steps we're taking ahead of the 2020 US Election
We're announcing additional, significant product and enforcement updates that will increase context and encourage more thoughtful consideration before Tweets are amplified.
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RC – The Plan 9 Shell (c. 1990) [pdf]
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Complete BBC Micro Games Archive
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Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository
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Simon Willison’s Weblog
Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository
Git scraping is the name I’ve given a scraping technique that I’ve been experimenting with for a few years now. It’s really effective, and more people should use it. Update …
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Raspberry Pi 4: Hardware accelerated video decoding (GPU) in Chromium
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Raspberry Pi 4: Hardware accelerated video decoding (GPU) in Chromium
Following these steps, you will add hardware acceleration decoding capabilities to the Chromium web browser.
This is an extension to the tutorial about DRM for Chromium on the Raspberry Pi. Videos from Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney+, Youtube, etc. can be…
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Robinhood Accounts Looted, No Customer Support
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Bloomberg
Robinhood Users Say Accounts Were Looted, No One to Call
It took Soraya Bagheri a day to learn that 450 shares of Moderna Inc. had been liquidated in her Robinhood account and that $10,000 in withdrawals were pending. But after alerting the online brokerage to what she believed was a theft in progress, she received…
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Biggest Y Combinator Failed Startups
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Failory
Biggest Y Combinator Failed Startups
+400 YC-backed startups have closed their doors in the last 15 years. Here are some of their biggest failures.
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Reverse Engineering the Japanese Sentence
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Japanesecomplete
Reverse Engineer Some Japanese | Japanese Complete
Reverse Engineer some Japanese and learn the makeup of the language. Japanese Complete is your ticket to fluent comprehension of Japanese.
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JuliaMono – a monospaced font for scientific and technical computing
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Some onions were too sexy for Facebook
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BBC News
Why some onions were too sexy for Facebook
A Canadian seed store inadvertently crossed the line with a seemingly innocent advert for onions.
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An interview with Paul Mockapetris, the creator of the DNS
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Welcometothejungle
An interview with Paul Mockapetris, the creator of the DNS
Mockapetris considers the current state of the DNS and its future in a world where countries are seeking to build their own intranets.
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Twilio Set to Acquire Cloud Customer Data Startup Segment for $3.2B
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Forbes
Twilio Set To Acquire Cloud Customer Data Startup Segment For $3.2 Billion
With cloud companies booming during the pandemic, one of the category’s recent public-company success stories is set to make a splash by spending billions to acquire one of its up-and-comers.
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Facebook/Zstandard – Fast real-time compression algorithm
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GitHub
GitHub - facebook/zstd: Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm
Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm. Contribute to facebook/zstd development by creating an account on GitHub.
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