October 2011
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Romedia Making the News with UNESCO →
Following on from this month’s International Workshop for Independent Producers in Igualada, Spain, the Romedia Foundation were delighted to be featured in UNESCO’s \’Women Make the News\’ series….
Oct 29th
July 2011
2 posts
The fruits of immigration →
A tough new law cracking down on illegal immigrants and those who hire or “harbor” them has created a severe shortage of agricultural labor in Georgia right at harvest time. The head of a…
Jul 14th
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Erik Demaine knows how many moves it takes to... →
Jul 1st
June 2011
2 posts
Jun 6th
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Ready for the future of the Internet? →
Jun 2nd
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May 2011
4 posts
(title unknown) →
Thank you, Matthew Flatt, for a terrific novice-friendly intro to Racket, and for the props to Bootstrap (at about 29 minutes in)!
May 29th
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May 28th
May 28th
Bootstrap in the news! →
May 4th
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March 2011
4 posts
Perspective: deaths normed by watts for... →
Mar 23rd
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Mar 13th
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IEEE CopyWrong -- ACM does this too →
Mar 12th
I somehow didn't realize that Hans Rosling had put... →
Mar 12th
February 2011
7 posts
Google pulls Recipe View out of the oven →
Okay, so this Google announcement doesn’t come with some dessert-themed upgrade, but we guarantee you’ll be able to find recipes for cupcakes, gingerbread, and maybe even ice…
Feb 26th
TEDTalks : Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of... →
At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another — by listening to the humans around them and “taking statistics” on the sounds they need to…
Feb 17th
New search service for language resources →
It has just become a whole lot easier to search the world’s language archives. The new OLAC Language Resource Catalog contains descriptions of over 100,000 language resources from over 40 language…
Feb 13th
It turns out to be easy enough to create a site on... →
Feb 12th
The Best Questions For A First Date →
In this post we analyze our entire database of match questions, looking for the ones that are easy and conversational, yet that correlate to the deeper, unspeakable, issues people actually care…
Feb 9th
Feb 5th
And so it ends... quietly... the internet is full. →
Feb 3rd
January 2011
7 posts
Teach Like A Novice →
by Zoe Pollock Ed Yong gleans a larger lesson about teaching from a new study by Elizabeth Bonawitz: Through two experiments with pre-schoolers, Bonawitz has found that teaching can be a…
Jan 25th
This is what snow was invented for →
Check out this message in the snow along the Charles, photographed yesterday from the eighth floor of Mass. Eye and Ear. Via CommonHealth.
Jan 22nd
LaTeX math in HTML. Sweet! →
Jan 18th
Malaprop or ? →
Shared by gremio Ah, the delicious truth… :-) Rep. Steve King: “As I deliberate and I listen to the gentleman from Tennessee, I have to make the point that when you challenge the mendacity…
Jan 9th
Why Is The US Taxpayer Subsidizing Facebook – And... →
By Simon Johnson Goldman Sachs is investing $450 million of its own money in Facebook, at a valuation that implies the social networking company is now worth $50 billion. Goldman is also…
Jan 7th
Jan 7th
I've created a Free Software section in Google... →
Jan 3rd
December 2010
15 posts
Setting Government Data Free with ScraperWiki →
Civic minded hackers from all over the world recently organized themeselves for action as a part of the International Open Government Hackathon. The team from Portland, Oregon decided to…
Dec 30th
Inspire Medical to Test Implanted Device for Sleep... →
Shared by gremio So this will let kids remote control your tongue for laughs? Can’t wait! :-) According to the National Institutes of Health, about 12 million Americans suffer from sleep apnea, a…
Dec 29th
Google Body Browser →
Google has recently demoed an interesting WebGL application called Body Browser, which lets you explore the human body just like you can explore the world in Google Earth. Now you can try Google…
Dec 16th
Chrome for a Cause (use Chrome and give your... →
Dec 16th
Dec 16th
Resurrecting One of the World's 1st Video... →
Shared by gremio Neat! The raquets can be invisible because the button always causes a hit, one simply has to set the angle. Recommendation for Bootstrap 2? This guest post is written by Peter…
Dec 16th
Google AI Challenge won by Hungarian writing in... →
Dec 11th
New House Science Chair Has Zero Percent Rating... →
Shared by mizhi Oh nice. Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX), the oldest member of Congress, was officially confirmed as the next chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday. The Texas…
Dec 9th
Tax Package Will Aid Nearly All, With the Highest... →
The only groups likely to face a tax increase are the poorest.
Dec 9th
Cuteness and Free Software →
Dec 9th
“Many women in both Sweden and Britain will wonder at the unusual zeal with which...”
– http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/08/wikileaks-rape-allegations-freedom-of-speech
Dec 9th
Balls →
via @dcurtisj via @theremina.
Dec 7th
Boldog születésnapot! →
To mark 20 years of the Theoretical Linguistics program at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, our friends there celebrated with remarkable panache:
Dec 2nd
Most coders have sleep problems, need 'hygiene and... →
Dec 2nd
Where is your God now - meme (math style) →
Shared by gremio For Brown… Good luck with quals!
Dec 1st
November 2010
17 posts
"Utterly noxious retail" as Search Engine... →
David Segal, “A bully finds a pulpit on the web”, NYT 11/26/2010: Today, when reading the dozens of comments [at getsatisfaction.com] about DecorMyEyes, it is hard to decide which one…
Nov 28th
Does watching TV make us happy? →
Shared by gremio Not just tv of course. The “incomplete control over, and foresight into, their own behavior” applies to solitaire games of all sorts, and perhaps to Google reader and general…
Nov 28th
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What is the most harmful drug? →
Photo credit A new system that ranks drugs on the basis of harm caused to both the user and others places alcohol as the most harmful drug, above heroin and crack. The scale,…
Nov 27th
The Big Slice Of Cake →
John Cassidy takes stock of the bloated financial industry: Think of all the profits produced by businesses operating in the U.S. as a cake. Twenty-five years ago, the slice taken by financial…
Nov 27th
4th Amendment Wear →
Shared by gremio yes. want. Now there’s a way to protest those intrusive TSA X-ray scanners without saying a word. Announcing 4th Amendment Metallic ink-printed undershirts…
Nov 27th
Fed Up with Stupid →
A blistering read from longtime TPM Reader I’ll just identify as G … For me, it’s the arbitrariness of it, the extremely poor attitudes of the TSA employees, and the fact that it doesn’t seem to…
Nov 24th
Great life advice from Coach John Wooden. →
Nov 21st
The Hidden Costs of Extra Airport Security →
Gauging the impact of security measures on air travel, and the economic repercussions.
Nov 19th