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Star Trek: The Motion Picture named a space shuttle, created a custom font pack, and relaunched the swashbuckling futurism of the greatest of all space franchises: Star Trek.
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2020 Bundles
The state of bundles in 2020: Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple. Plus, Microsoft’s purchase of Zenimax.
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A simple molecule floating in Venus's atmosphere is now humans' best bet for finding companionship in the galaxy.
The battle over dyslexia
The long read: It was once a widely accepted way of explaining why some children struggled to read and write. But in recent years, some experts have begun to question the existence of dyslexia itself
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Instead of optimizing work, technology has created a nonstop barrage of notifications and interactions. Six months into a pandemic, it's worse than ever.
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Overcoming Bias : The World Forager Elite
My last post was on Where’s My Flying Car? , which argues that changing US attitudes created a tsunami of reluctance and regulation that killed nuclear power,…
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Mysterious carvings and evidence of human sacrifice uncovered in Shimao
The stones didn’t give up their secrets easily. For decades, villagers in the dust-blown hills of China’s Loess Plateau believed that the crumbling rock walls…
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Republicans Killed the Obamacare Mandate. New Data Shows It Didn’t Really Matter.
Many experts now view the individual mandate as a policy that did little to increase health coverage — but did a lot to invite political backlash.
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Under Deconstruction: The State of Shopify’s Monolith
Ruby on Rails is a great framework for rapidly building beautiful web applications that users and developers love. But if an application is successful, there’s usually continued investment, resulting in additional features and increased overall system complexity. Shopify’s core monolith has over 2.8 million lines of Ruby code and 500,000 commits. Rails doesn’t provide patterns or tooling for managing the inherent complexity and adding features in a structured, well-bounded way. That’s why, over...
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Ivo Zdarsky Is Waiting Out the End Times in His Own Utah Ghost Town - Atlas Obscura
The Iron Curtain escapee, DIY aviator, and thriving entrepreneur is ready for anything.
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The Search for Life on Venus Could Start With This Private Company
Rocket Lab may be able to send a small spacecraft to probe the clouds of Venus long before NASA or other space agencies are able to do so.
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Nassim Taleb: A Definition of Antifragile and its Implications
Here's the definition of Antifragility from Nassim Taleb. While a lot of people use the word, not many people know what it means and its implications.
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The 'serendipity mindset': how to make your own luck | Life and style | The Guardian
‘See something in the unexpected and connect the dots.’Illustration: Eva Bee D r Christian Busch has had a lucky life. He narrowly escaped a catastrophic car…
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At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to pass on
Now that there’s no longer any way to treat my cancer, I’ve been reflecting on what I want others to know about life and death, says Elliot Dallen
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Zoom Towns And The New Housing Market For The 2 Americas
One America is living in a housing boom. The other needs support from the government or family for an affordable place to live.
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'Coffin confessor' paid to drop bombshells from beyond the grave at clients' funerals
Clients "knocking on death's door" engage this private investigator to crash their funerals and reveal awkward secrets some mourners would prefer remain eternally buried.
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Books I Will Not Write #8: The Year of the Conspiracy - Charlie's Diary
Global viral pandemics, insane right-wing dictator-wannabes trying to set fire to the planet, and climate change aside, I'm officially declaring 2020 to be the…
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How Three Tokelau Teenagers Survived Being Lost in the Ocean for 51 Days
Three boys. One boat. Fifty-one days at sea. A harrowing story of unlikely survival.
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Hundreds of Americans Planted 'Chinese Mystery Seeds'
What I learned by reading thousands of internal emails about the Chinese mystery seeds.
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One step beyond: the ascent of mountain runner Kílian Jornet
M ore days than not, Kílian Jornet runs up a mountain. A short run will take him between one and four hours. A long run will take him five or more. Usually…
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Things I Learned to Become a Senior Software Engineer
Everything I learned to become a senior software engineer. From good skills to have, to dealing with difficult engineering problems.
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Moore: Mike Budenholzer and the Complexities of Coaching Adjustments
Matt Moore explains why some coaches, specifically Mike Budenholzer, don't make adjustments in the NBA playoffs
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