Beto O’Rourke’s secret membership in America’s oldest hacking group
As Beto O'Rourke starts his run for U.S. president, members of a group famous for “hactivism” come forward for the first time to claim him as a former comrade.
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Couple has eaten at the same Wichita restaurant six nights a week for 15 years
Wichita couple Ron and Diana Watson are creatures of habit, and they’ve dined at the west Wichita Texas Roadhouse six nights a week for the past 15 years.
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A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality
Physicists have long suspected that quantum mechanics allows two observers to experience different, conflicting realities. Now they’ve performed the first experiment that proves it.
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Forget Everything You Think You Know About Time - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus
Studying time “is like holding a snowflake in your hands: gradually, as you study it, it melts between your fingers and vanishes.”Image…
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Africa Rising: A Little Warning For Ethiopia And The Black Race By Pius Adesanmi | Sahara Reporters
Yesterday, I read an article in The Economist about the dire situation of industrialization in Africa. The said article starts with the desolate landscape of what was once Africa's most flourishing textile industry in the northern Nigerian city of Kano - now overtaken by rodents.
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How Many Major League Baseball Teams Are There?
The other day Vladimir Guerrero Jr., a teenager in a major-league spring-training baseball game, took a scyther’s swing at a low first pitch and bounced it off…
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Peak California
California is hard to beat. There are richer places with worse weather, there are (a few) nicer climates with worse economies, but it’s…
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Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.Astronomers claim in a new paper that star motions should make…
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It’s Been 20 Years Since “Cruel Intentions,” And There’s Never Been Another Movie Quite Like It
Back in 1999, when nihilism was cooler than niceness, the shameless teen debauchery of Cruel Intentions sparked a generation’s sexual awakening.
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Error budget: Google's solution for innovating at a sustainable pace
New features always trump technical work. Can we objectively measure and decide when they should not?
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Here’s How We’ll Know an AI Is Conscious - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus
Zombies are supposed to be capable of asking any question about the nature of experience. It’s worth wondering, though, how a person…
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The case of the 500-mile email
The case of the 500-mile email Read the FAQ about the story. The following is the 500-mile email story in the form it originallyappeared, in a post to…
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Who’s Afraid of The Prodigy?
Remembering Keith Flint and the techno-apocalyptic aesthetic that dominated pop culture at the turn of the millennium.
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Inside BMC : Behind The Scenes With The Swiss Risk Takers
Matt Wragg takes a look inside BMC's advanced in-house carbon development facility, and discovers a divergent culture within the typically no-nonsense company.
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Why Giant Airships Could Be a Trillion Dollar Industry
One thing I plan to do a lot of on this blog is speculative quantification. I want to post a lot of best guess numbers that are subject to s...
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The rise and fall of the man cave
The trendiest home renovation project of the aughts is now a shrine to the fantasy of male friendship.
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The Making of the Fox News White House
Sean Hannity recently joined Trump at a rally. Greta Van Susteren, a former Fox host, calls the move an “egregious mistake.” Illustration by Tyler Comrie;…
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Do SAD lamps actually work?
Light therapy products, touted as treatments for seasonal affective disorder, are steadily on the rise.
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America’s Cities Are Running on Software From the ’80s
America’s Cities Are Running on Software From the ’80s
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Why Do You Ride?: A Characterization of Mountain Bikers, Their Engagement Methods, and Perceived Links to Mental Health and Well-Being
Mountain biking is an increasingly popular outdoor activity on the extreme sport continuum. Extreme and high-risk sports have been investigated using a variety of motivational theories with sensation seeking a dominant theme; however, behavioral and motivational homogeneity within these types of populations should not be assumed. Recent studies have highlighted the therapeutic potential of extreme sports and similar outdoor activities. The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics of...
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Winning in NASCAR—meticulous preparation, or just good luck?
Chaos reigns in Florida at the 2019 Daytona 500.
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Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure—Stephen Wolfram Blog
The Pursuit of Productivity I’m a person who’s only satisfied if I feel I’m being productive. I like figuring things out. I like making things. And I want to do…
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China’s CRISPR twins might have had their brains inadvertently enhanced
New research suggests that a controversial gene-editing experiment to make children resistant to HIV may also have enhanced their ability to learn and form memories.
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#597: How do I learn to take criticism better?
Dear Captain, I have always been way too sensitive to criticism. In high school we had an assignment where we had to ask our loved ones what they thought our best and worst personality traits were,…
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How to receive feedback more better
A brief and (very) informal presentation on how to get better at receiving and acknowledging feedback.
