Measuring surgical quality
Not all surgeons are equally skilled with a scalpel. Doctors are developing new ways to test — and improve — operating room performance.
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Task-based effectiveness of basic visualizations
The empty seat on a crowded Japanese train: 10 years on, the 'gaijin seat' still grates
If you're a conspicuous non-Japanese living in the country, then you've likely experienced the empty-seat phenomenon with varying frequency and intensity.
Flea Had a Wild Life. Then He Joined Red Hot Chili Peppers. (Published 2019)
In a new memoir, the bassist describes how he expanded his consciousness, found his muse and landed in a storied rock band.
»I have no desire to open up this man’s skull. I do it because I have to«
Forensic scientists, the police and crime scene investigators master horror with a steady hand. This article gives a rare insight into the post-mortem examination of a homicide.
Search vs. Discovery: How Are They Different?
Google, Microsoft, et al continue to perfect their search engines – but too often search is not enough. The watchword
Tensorflow Tutorial : Part 2 – Getting Started - DataScienceCentral.com
In this multi-part series, we will explore how to get started with tensorflow. This tensorflow tutorial will lay a solid foundation to this popular tool that everyone seems to be talking about. The second part is a tensorflow tutorial on getting started, installing and building…
How do I add python3 kernel to jupyter (IPython) - Stack Overflow
My Jupyter notebooks installed with python 2 kernel. I do not understand why. I might have messed something up when I did the install. I already have python 3 installed. How can I add it to Jupyter?
Star Trek Mr. Spock Live Long And Prosper Pill Box
Star Trek Mr. Spock Live Long And Prosper Pill BoxYour bag, pocket, or car: the final frontier. These are the voyages of your on the go medication. They will travel with you in a handy container as you seek out new life and civilizations. They will boldly go with you to places…
The Hissing of Vintage Tapes
The ongoing fight against tape hiss has proven a useful creative tension for the music industry—even if you’re not into lo-fi music recorded on a four-track.
The Symbolic Seashell | Hakai Magazine
Collecting seashells is as old as humanity. What we do with them can reveal who we are, where we’re from, and what we believe.
How to Discover your Why: What I Learned from my Transition from CEO | Link
Mark Twain once said that the two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day that you discover why. My goal for writing this article is to share an approach to discover (or in my case, rediscover) your “why”.
One Family Built Forever 21, and Fueled Its Collapse
The retailer’s bankruptcy filing, and interviews with former employees, give a rare glimpse into a family controlled, intensely secretive operation.
If You Master This Listening Technique, You’ll Hear What People Don’t Say Out Loud
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Learning to “hear offers” like an improviser can turn obstacles into opportunities.
Man on Fire
The Reverend Charles Moore ardently dedicated his life to the service of God and his fellow man. But when he couldn’t shake the thought that he hadn’t done enough, he drove to a desolate parking lot in his hometown of Grand Saline for one final act of faith.
The Queen of the State Fair of Texas
Ruth Hauntz was in her late 20s when the fair was desegregated. Now, her creations make thousands of fairgoers happy every year
Inside Olympic Destroyer, the Most Deceptive Hack in History
The untold story of how digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big cyberattack will be even harder to crack.
What happens when an Italian tries to go paleo for a month
Your relationship to food could always be worse.
Honor Thy Father
In suburban Fort Worth the frail psyche of a football prodigy collided with the crazed ambition of his dad, who himself had been a high school football star way back when. The consequences were deadly.
Unholy Act
No one in McAllen saw Irene Garza leave Sacred Heart that night in 1960. The next morning, her car was still parked down the street from the church. She never came home.
Inside the Members-Only Eating Clubs of San Sebastián
Step into the private kitchens of Basque country’s sociedades gastronómicas, where everything revolves around food
Zhug
This bright green sauce from Yemen — so fresh from cilantro, so spicy from serrano chiles, so vividly aromatic — will open up a whole world in your cooking Treat it just as you would a basil pesto or a salsa verde: Make it in small batches, in the mortar and pestle, and then…
This Knockout Spicy Sauce From Yemen Will Improve Almost Any Dish
Looking to punch up your eggs? Or add some zing to your salad? Just give it a little zhug.
The Modern NBA Dictionary: A Guide to the 2019-20 Season
From "advanced stats" to "Woj bomb," here are the verbs, adjectives, nouns, and phrases you need to understand basketball in 2019-20
What the U.S. Can Learn From Iranian Warfare
The Iranian approach to proxy warfare offers a surprising lesson.
DNS 101: An introduction to Domain Name Servers
Domain names provide the internet much more user-friendly way of referencing servers, but have you ever wondered how it works under the covers?
Changing Your Pricing Model: How Hired Went from a Transactional to a Subsc
Hired's Head of Global Revenue, John Kelly, explains how the company successfully transitioned from a transactional to a subscription model.
Insurance Quotes | Armadillo Insurance Agency
Armadillo Insurance Agency welcomes Texans around the state and is ready to help them find the insurance coverage that they need. Speak with our agents in Austin, TX to get started with a policy and learn how you can get a quote.
Visual guide to Agile methodologies for modern product management
Agile methodologies theory, practice, examples, and free templates for product development and product management teams.
Interested in improving your relationships? Try Nonviolent Communication
Nonviolent communication (NVC) is a popular method of conflict resolution that privileges unbiased evidence and specificity.
On Humility and Making Better Decisions
Dr. Daniel Kahneman features on the latest Farnam Street podcast and it’s a surprising episode. Kahneman wrote Thinking Fast and Slow. I admire Kahneman a great deal. Not for his Nobel or for his work, which are both impressive, but for his humility. Some of the key tenets of…
When 'Angels in America' Came to East Texas – Texas Monthly
Twenty years ago my hometown made national headlines when the local college staged an internationally acclaimed play about gay men and the AIDS crisis. The people I grew up with are still feeling the aftershocks.
Building An MRAM Array
Why MRAM is so attractive.
Google Analytics: Introduction to Cross-device Reporting | Practical Ecomme
There has been a seismic shift in website traffic in the past several years, from desktop to mobile. Google Analytics has rolled out the beta version of cross-device reporting to inform merchants of how their shoppers are interacting via multiple devices.
Teaching Ethics in Appalachia Taught Me About Bridging America’s Partisan D
There’s a language for talking about hot-button issues. And we’re not learning it.
The Story of France’s Most Extraordinary Pastry
Rustically simple, this baked good is delicious due to the high quality of its parts.
Spain's Happy Little Carless City - Reasons to be Cheerful
Wherever you find advocates for saner transportation, their dream scenario usually hinges on the same outcome: making cities blissfully free of cars. To this end, the Spanish city of Pontevedra, population 84,000, has done something remarkable: it has reduced car use in its…
A Lone Postman Delivers the Mail to the Far Reaches of the Big Bend
Not many people will drive the mail to places the U.S. Postal Service won’t. Seventy-one-year-old Gilbert Lujan is one of them.
Ad-Tech Experts Call for Third-Party Verification After the Death of the Co
Google’s proposals for machine learning-based frequency capping are questioned.
Old Dudes On Skateboards
The death of his life-long skateboarding friend prompts Aaron Gilbreath to get back on his board — at 44, with his toddler daughter in tow.
The Acid Farmers - Mike Jay
How Sandoz Pharmaceuticals produced the LSD that turned on the world
The Best Cast Iron Skillets
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We found five cast iron skillets worth their weight in metal after examining heat conduction, frying dozens of eggs, searing steaks, and loads of baking cornbread.
The Cobra Effect: how linear thinking leads to unintended consequences
The world is much more complex than we realise. The Cobra Effect is when an attempted solution results in unintended consequences.
A Beginner’s Guide To Flight Tracking
Translations:English (UK)EspañolFlight tracking is an accessible and useful tool for open source investigators. Being able to track the movements of aircraft belonging to powerful individuals and armed forces can add important details to stories, or even uncover entire new…
Deep Learning with PyTorch: A 60 Minute Blitz — PyTorch Tutorials 2.4.0+cu121 documentation
Sinigang (Tamarind Broth With Pork and Vegetables) Recipe - NYT Cooking
This is the soup that made me like vegetables when I was growing up You always measure sinigang by sourness, which is so much a part of our cuisine — layers of acid coming from vinegar, fresh citrus, tamarind and unripe fruits Here, sour is a power move, hitting you all the way…
The Epic Hunt for a Lost World War II Aircraft Carrier (Published 2019)
In 1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the Pacific. For decades, the families of the dead wondered where in the lightless depths of the ocean the ship could possibly be. Earlier this year, a team of wreck hunters set out to find it.
Jazz Night In America: The Playlist
A modern jazz survey at ground level, from stone classics to state-of-the-art jams.
Moroccan-inspired Santa Fe house asks $950K
The intricate front door signals what’s to come inside: 1,800 square feet of craftsmanship and detailing that even the staunchest minimalist could respect.