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Scientists are developing AI systems called deep neural nets that can read medical images and detect disease — with astonishing efficiency
Eliminate an entire category of bugs with a few simple tools
How you can use a few simple static code analysis tools to avoid common programming bugs.
Stet
There’s a term in copyediting called “stet.” That’s what you write when you want the copyeditor to not make the indicated change. It’s probably Latin for, “leave…
Buying My First Gun in the Dark Heart of America
At first I wondered why we needed to go to a gun show to buy a gun. After all, Charles lives about three miles from a store called Frank’s Gun & Repair. It’s at the corner of Highway 51 and 121…
How to stop using console.log() and start using your browser’s debugger
Debug More Efficiently
The Unsolved Murder of an Unusual Billionaire
Last December, a Canadian pharmaceuticals executive and his wife were found strangled in their home. No one knows who did it or why, but everyone has a theory.
Sword Swallowers and Shrunken Heads: An Ode to Johnny Fox and His Freakator
[caption id="attachment_78396" align="alignnone" width="600"] This huge '60s sideshow banner—roughly 8 by 9.5 feet—was painted by esteemed circus arti...
Lumpers and splitters
There are two interesting ways to solve a problem, find a startup or even write a blog post. You can lump two previously disparate categories into one. Or you can split a previously coherent catego…
The Road of Doom Leads to A Lemony Heaven
Limoncello on Italy’s Amalfi Coast.
The elephant as a person
Elephants might have the necessary capacities for personhood – we just need to help them acquire the cognitive scaffolding
Things I Learned Building an Analytics Engine
A side project that got much bigger than I thought.
The man who has eaten at more than 7,300 Chinese restaurants, but can’t use
David R. Chan’s love of lists and determination never to eat at the same place twice has seen him become an accidental expert on Chinese-American history. Just don’t call him a foodie
Hemingway, a Lost Suitcase, and the Recipe for Stupidity
No matter how good our intentions, sometimes we do incredibly stupid things, like lose a suitcase full of priceless writings. In this article, learn how to recognize the potential for stupidity before it happens.
How a Gang of Hedge Funders Strip-Mined Kentucky’s Public Pensions
Kentucky’s willingness to gamble massively on high-risk alternative investments for its pensions has made the state an easy mark for Wall Street hucksters.
How Being a Line Cook Ruined Me
When you exist outside of regular society, when the nine-to-five gig is as foreign to you as going somewhere hot for a vacation, it makes it easier to indulge in the wilder, untamed side of things.
How the Finnish survive without small talk
Their desire for avoidance is a predisposition so common that it’s become hard-baked into Finnish culture.
For Want of a Nail
Without a good shoeing, a horse can indeed be lost. Enter the farrier.
https://listabs.com/19-simple-psychological-tricks-that-actually-work/
Dandelion seeds fly using ‘impossible’ method never before seen in nature
Nature - The seeds contain a lot of open space, which seems to be the key to sustaining flight.
The Cheating Scandal That Has Shaken the World of Élite Sommeliers
The revelation of deceit in fine wine’s most sacrosanct circle has rattled the tight-knit world of sommeliers, who pride themselves on presenting a decorous, unflappable face to those outside their ranks.
Nine Electric, Intoxicating Hours Inside Bogotá’s Wildest Party
Like a Cheesecake Factory crossed with a nightclub on steroids, but with absolutely fantastic Colombian food
Sharon Jones Is The 21st Century's Godmother Of Soul
The Augusta-born soul singer's ballads, floor-burners and soaring motivational anthems took the might of Motown's peak and sharpened it to fight the impossible.
Tackling the 7,000-Mile Great Western Loop
The route patches together portions of five other thru-hikes and includes sections of trail-less meandering through the Sonoran and Mojave deserts. It's no wonder that only one person has ever completed it—yet.
France Dispatch: At World’s Largest Food Market, a Sip of Wine After a Nigh
Rungis, a wholesale food market bigger than Monaco, is beloved in culinary circles, but this “working-class place” is unknown to most visitors to Paris.
Why Doctors Reject Tools That Make Their Jobs Easier
From the thermometer’s invention onward, physicians have feared—incorrectly—that new technology would make their jobs obsolete
Evergreen
Evergreen is a React UI Framework for building ambitious products on the web. Made by Segment in San Francisco, CA.
How to use Git stashes as a temporary storage
Git stashes can be used to temporarily store code you don't want to commit. This video shows you how to create and apply Git Stashes.
The Power of Price Points
Customer segmentation is not just a revenue tool, but also a way to achieve excellence in execution.
10 photos that blew the competition away at the Siena International Photo Awards.
These images captures something astounding, magical, true, or important about the world.
Elvis Costello’s new album, Look Now, reviewed.
And one of his best in decades.
Major Pure-Play Foundries Revenue Per Wafer 2017-2018
The average revenue generated from processed wafers among the four biggest pure-play foundries (TSMC, GlobalFoundries, UMC, and SMIC) is expected to be $1,138 in 2018, when expressed in 200mm-equivalent wafers, which is essentially flat from $1,136 in 2017, according to a new…
The Levimoon brings a levitating, light-up moon replica to your bedside tab
https://youtu.be/ZI5KLV6vmdY Some products are built purely for one's eyes only. Designed to uplift spaces and enrich lives, the Levimoon is one such product. Designed as a replica of our very own satellite, the Levimoon is a levitating moon-like orb that can float, rotate, and…
The 40 Greatest Movie Soundtracks of All Time
Purple Rain, The Bodyguard, and more.
Look Now by Elvis Costello & the Imposters
Look Now by Elvis Costello & the Imposters album reviews & Metacritic score: The first album for Costello with the Imposters since 2008's Momofuku was co-produced Sebastian Krys and features a guest appearance from Burt Bacharach....
Janko Nilovic - Drug Song (1975)
From the Montparnasse 2000 Label comes this groovy funky flute track
Measuring the varied sentiments of good and bad words
There was a survey a while back that asked people to provide a 0 to 100 percent value to probabilistic words like “usually” and “likely”. YouGov did something similar for wo…
https://frontnet.eu/new-milestone-661-tbit-s-data-rate-over-a-fiber-optic-cable-reached/
Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2017 | Blog
The verdict is in! Following 37 nominations whittled down to a shortlist of 15 by a community vote, our panel of experts has conferred and selected the top 10 web hacking techniques of 2017 (and 2016)
Elvis Costello Doesn't Want Your Nostalgia, He Wants You To 'Look Now'
Elvis Costello is releasing his first album with The Imposters in nearly a decade, titled Look Now. The legendary musician speaks about his work and surviving a cancer scare that caused him to cancel tour dates earlier this year.
The Love Story that Upended the Texas Prison System – Texas Monthly
In 1967, a 56-year-old lawyer met a young inmate with a brilliant mind and horrifying stories about life inside. Their complicated alliance—and even more complicated romance—would shed light on a nationwide scandal, disrupt a system of abuse and virtual slavery across the state…
What to Do at Parties If You Hate Small Talk
We publish articles around emotional education: calm, fulfilment, perspective and self-awareness. | What to Do at Parties If You Hate Small Talk — Read now
How This 4-Step Sales Process Has Earned Me $5 Million in the Last 18 Months
Sales gets a bad rap, but it's essential to your business.
Kurt Vile Abides
Singing the existential blues made him famous. With his great new album, 'Bottle It In,' he's just looking for a good time and a calm mind
Joan Jett’s Raw, Inclusive Rock and Roll
The pioneering musician talks about sensitivity, vulnerability, and the assertiveness needed to defy gender stereotypes.
Proof of life: how would we recognise an alien if we saw one?
Proof of life: what evidence would it take to convince you that alien intelligence had been found?
We Tried the Vegan Brisket at Rice University
Prepare your plate for "plant-based" meat.
Small-Town Injustice
The shooting of a civilian exposes the underbelly of a small town police department.
What is /proc? | OpsTips
Get to know what is under the hood of procfs - what Linux does when you interact with /proc
Entrepreneurial sixth sense: how intuition drives stronger decision making
Adam Werbach was the Sierra Club’s golden boy.