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If you’ve paid attention to Facebook’s culture at all, you know that one thing has stayed true since its launch. The company has a hacker mentality, and since 2007 has held many official “hackathons” which allow its entire company... 0 Published 17 hours ago in
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While most of us probably suspect that the yeti is a mythical beast, the finest minds in the world beg to differ. Which is why Oxford University has just announced that it is going on a yeti hunt, to estab... 0 Published 2 days ago in
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You’ve heard how microcredit was born. In a nation long shackled by British rule and wracked by famine, a brilliant man was seized with a desire to strike a blow against the poverty all about him. Defying common sense and the skepticism of his colleagues,... 0 Published 3 days ago in
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There is much in the review, excerpt: In their narrow focus on inclusive institutions, however, the authors ignore or dismiss other factors. I mentioned earlier the effects of an area’s being landlocked or of environmental damage, factors that they don’t ... 0 Published 6 days ago in
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The following true stories involve a Hitler sex change and exploding pancakes. Viewer discretion is advised. Submitted by: xyzpdq1 0 Published 7 days ago in
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This is part of a series of Wired Q&As with spaceflight experts leading up to SpaceX’s launch. You can read previous interviews here. We may be at the dawn of a new, private era in space. On May 19, if all goes well, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will lif... 0 Published 8 days ago in
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In 1990, an amateur inventor called Maurice Ward appeared on British TV demonstrating a super-material he'd invented without any scientific training. Called Starlite, it could withstand temperatures of 100... 0 Published 8 days ago in
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This is a wall engraving from Abri Castanet, a shallow cave in southern France's Vezere valley. It's the oldest known cave etching, probably dating back around 37,000 years—and the researchers claim ... 0 Published 9 days ago in
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A few times recently Paul Krugman has raised the issue of structural unemployment in the Great Depression, so I thought I would offer a look at what has been written on the topic. Here is Richard J. Jensen, from a survey article: Economists agree that Ke... 0 Published 9 days ago in
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As we reported earlier, Scott Thompson has stepped down been ousted as CEO of Yahoo!. The reason was, as you may already be aware, a mixup flub of facts on his resume. There have been six CEOs in the history of Yahoo! (plus a short interim-stint by Tim M... 0 Published 10 days ago in
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According to this post on Bloomberg, Anna M. Jarvis, the founder of Mother’s Day, wouldn’t be too happy with the way that the holiday is commercialized these days. The holiday has its roots in the early 1900s, beginning as ... 0 Published 11 days ago in
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Do not feel absolutely certain of anything. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the evidence is sure to come to light. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed. When you meet with opposition, even if it ... 0 Published 18 days ago in
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Every American school kid learns the story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. But could its fate have been hiding in plain sight all along, behind some patches on a map? It's a major clue that could eventually... 0 Published 18 days ago in
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When people ask me why I use foursquare so much, they’re usually surprised by my response. Even though I share my various check-ins and places that I visit, I use the service primarily to keep a log for myself. As soon as foursquare launched, I kn... 0 Published 20 days ago in
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The Cutty Sark is kind of a big deal. It's the last tea clipper in existence and is considered a national maritime treasure by the British. So when she was badly damaged in a fire in 2007, the British gove... 0 Published 28 days ago in
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Leonardo da Vinci was many things: artist, architect, engineer, inventor and—on occasion—scientist. But even though he made many detailed studies of the human form, his anatomical drawings lan... 0 Published 35 days ago in
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Image: United States Coast Guard By Alasdair Wilkins, io9 Exactly one hundred years ago Sunday, an ocean liner struck a block of ice and sank in the North Atlantic. The story of the ocean liner has been told hundreds of times. This story is about the bloc... 0 Published 38 days ago in
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We're not quite at the cusp of The Singularity yet, but technological progress touches just about everything around us. This fact was driven home recently when the Geeklings and I visited a local sugarbush... 0 Published 41 days ago in
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Newspapers proclaimed that hundreds of starships would soon venture out into the cosmos. People dreamed of moon colonies that were just a few years away. Ordinary citizens organized competitions to build rockets to reach the edge of space. Welcome to Rus... 0 Published 42 days ago in
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HISTORY those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it. Submitted by: Ghost 0 Published 44 days ago in
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From Chang-Tai Hsieh, plucked out of the 2002 AER, via @dtimesd: This paper presents dual estimates of total factor productivity growth (TFPG) for East Asian countries. While the dual estimates of TFPG for Korea and Hong Kong are similar to the primal est... 0 Published 45 days ago in
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As AOL, in the equivalent of selling sperm to pay the cable bill, offloaded a billion dollar's worth of patents to Microsoft, something strange happened: the latter became the owner of Netscape. Remember N... 0 Published 45 days ago in
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The Allen Telescope Array, an interferometry project dedicated to SETI and radio astronomy in Hat Creek, California, at sunset. Image: Colby Gutierrez-Kraybill/Flickr Before we can understand an alien civilization, it might be useful to understand our own... 0 Published 50 days ago in
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Bluetooth. Think about Bluetooth. Are you thinking about 10th-century bloodshed and Danish warmongering? You should be. The same tech you use to make dorky phone calls is named after a man responsible for... 0 Published 50 days ago in
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This Sunday is April's Fools Day. Here's a very interesting video showing the history of this silly day, which may have started in 1582. Still, do you know what's the biggest calendar joke this year? This... 0 Published 55 days ago in
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FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO I COULDN’T FIND THE DROIDS I WAS LOOKING FOR LoL by: Maxieboy171Picture by: Unknown 0 Published 60 days ago in
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Hoping to raise sufficient funds to defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ War, the British government passes the notorious Stamp Act on this day in 1765. The legislation levied a direct ... 0 Published 63 days ago in
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King Henry IV, the first English monarch of the Lancastrian dynasty, dies after years of illness, and his eldest son, Henry, ascends to the English throne. In 1399, Henry Bolingbroke was crowned King Henry IV of England following the f... 0 Published 65 days ago in
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On March 19, 1687, Robert de La Salle was murdered by Pierre Duhaut during a mutiny while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River. La Salle left France in 1864 with four ships and 300 colonists in an attempt to establish a Fr... 0 Published 66 days ago in
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On March 16, 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story of adultery and betrayal in colonial America, The Scarlet Letter, is published. Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1804. Although the infamous Salem witch trials had take... 0 Published 69 days ago in
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On March 15, 44B.C. Julius Caesar, the “dictator for life” of the Roman Empire, was murdered by his own senators at a meeting in a hall next to Pompey’s Theatre. The conspiracy against Caesar encompassed as many as si... 0 Published 70 days ago in
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The man in the moon might not change from month to month, but the lunar surface didn’t always look this way. A new NASA video depicts the fiery history of the moon, showing how the familiar shapes we see each night were actually caused by barrages ... 0 Published 70 days ago in
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On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein is born, the son of a Jewish electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany. Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity drastically altered man’s view of the universe, and his work in part... 0 Published 71 days ago in
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This is a fascinating simulation that shows how the Moon evolved from its original form—about 4.5 billion years ago—to what we can see today. It starts with the big impact that formed its Sout... 0 Published 71 days ago in
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History Channel is throwing its hat (erm, viking helmet?) into the scripted television ring. The network announced today it will 0 Published 72 days ago in
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On March 13, 1781, the German-born English astronomer William Hershel discovers Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. Herschel’s discovery of a new planet was the first to be made in modern times, and also the first to be made... 0 Published 72 days ago in
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On March 12, 1930, Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India. Britain’s Salt A... 0 Published 73 days ago in
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MEN WANTED for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful, honor and recognition in case of success. Ernest Shackleton – 4 Burlington st. Submitted... 0 Published 73 days ago in
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The Titanic sank on April 15th, 1912, and we've been asking questions ever since. Although we now know more or less why she went down, @RealTimeTitanic seeks to show us how it happened from the standpoint ... 0 Published 74 days ago in
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On March 9, 1916, Germany declared war on Portugal, who earlier that year honored its alliance with Great Britain by seizing German ships anchored in Lisbon’s harbor. When World War I began in 1914, Portugal was a fledgling demo... 0 Published 76 days ago in
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On this day in history in Russia, the February Revolution (known as such because of Russia’s use of the Julian calendar) begins on this day in 1917, when riots and strikes over the scarcity of food erupt in Petrograd (now St. Pet... 0 Published 77 days ago in
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On this day in history, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. In 1935, Hitle... 0 Published 78 days ago in
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1935: The world's first parking meters appear. T.E. Lawrence dies in a motorcycle accident. The nation of Libya is formed. In other news, "Everyday Science and Mechanics" magazine published their vision of... 0 Published 78 days ago in
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Before my visit to Athens I didn’t know what to expect but I knew it will be wonderful experience. And it was, now, when I hear Athens I see wide boulevards, clothing shops and of course – the Acropolis. View from the Acropolis Monastiraki market, photo b... 0 Published 78 days ago in
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On this day in history, Michelangelo Buonarroti, the greatest of the Italian Renaissance artists, is born in the small village of Caprese on March 6, 1475. The son of a government administrator, he grew up in Florence, a center of the... 0 Published 79 days ago in
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On the cold, snowy night of March 5, 1770, a mob of American colonists gathers at the Customs House in Boston and begins taunting the British soldiers guarding the building in protest of unpopular taxation. The protesters pelted Britis... 0 Published 80 days ago in
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