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A US$28 million Picasso masterpiece was missing for 20 years, until the art
Art historian Arthur Brand managed to track down the 1983 painting Buste de Femme (Dora Maar), which went missing from a Saudi prince’s boat in 1999.
Name It, and They Will Come — overreacted
A change starts with a story.
How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception and Meaning | Quanta Magazine
Neuroscience has found that gestures are not merely important as tools of expression but as guides of cognition and perception.
I wrote a story that became a legend. Then I discovered it wasn’t true. - C
In 2003, with what felt like an angel on my shoulder, I wrote a story that became a myth. It was a once-in-a-lifetime piece. An emblem for human courage in the face of adversity, and an inspiration for motorcyclists like me, that swept the world in its small way. It would have…
How the music of 1950’s Cuba revolutionized the sound of young Senegal
“Dakar was where everyone came to make music.”
Who Still Buys Wite-Out, and Why?
Correction fluids have improbably outlasted the typewriter and survived the rise of the digital office.
Boy, 12, said to have created nuclear reaction in playroom lab
Hobbyists say Jackson Oswalt of Tennessee is youngest person to achieve fusion
Stupid Advice: “You’ll Never Be Rich Working for Somebody Else”
Is being an entrepreneur really necessary for success? Here's why you should ignore the hype and how to pick your career path instead.
The Quest to Acquire the Oldest, Most Expensive Book on the Planet | Litera
A wooden box containing one of the most valuable books in the world arrives in Los Angeles on October 14, 1950, with little more fanfare—or security—than a Sears catalog. Code-named “the commode,” …
Buc-ee’s: The Path to World Domination
Beaver Aplin built the quirky convenience chain into a Texas empire. Will his tactics translate outside the state?
A journey to the Disappointment Islands
In 1765, an English explorer gave two islands a rather unfortunate name that has sheltered them from the world and preserved one of Earth’s last paradises.
Jeremy Mikkola - Rules for Autocomplete
15 Steps to Understand & Influence User Behavior: A Deep Dive
Understanding user behavior is key to understanding how users interact with your product. Here are 15 steps to analyze & change their interactions to your benefit.
Awesome Ruby
Your go-to Ruby Toolbox. A collection of awesome Ruby gems, tools, frameworks and software. 1319 projects organized into 137 categories.
100-Year-Old Negatives Discovered in Block of Ice in Antarctica
For the past 100 years, a box of never-before-seen negatives has been preserved in a block of ice in Antarctica. Recently, Conservators of the New Zealand
The Dark Romance and Grim Reality of Life in the French Foreign Legion | Va
Legionnaires need war, and Afghanistan is winding down. But there's always the hopeless battle against rogue gold miners in French Guiana . . .
An AI invented a bunch of new paint colors that are hilariously wrong
Let’s just say this neural network won’t make you fear the robot uprising.
What a beautiful tiny house in rural Japan can teach us about the health of
Guests are transforming the sleepy town into a major destination for tourists seeking the "real Japan."
How Turkish coffee destroyed an empire
Kahve was a favourite drink of the Ottoman Empire’s ruling class. Little did they know it would one day hasten the empire’s demise
$9 Marketing Stack: A Step-by-Step Guide
Update 2016-10-18: This tutorial has been updated to reflect the latest version of my stack (now with Drip!). I’ve also updated pricing info (it’s technically a $0 stack now) and screenshots. The original outdated article is archived here. “Just tell me what to do so I can stop
nfl-football-ops/Big-Data-Bowl: Homepage for the National Football League's
Homepage for the National Football League's Big Data Bowl - nfl-football-ops/Big-Data-Bowl
The Definitive 2019 Guide to Cryptographic Key Sizes and Algorithm Recommen
A simple, accessible recommendation for key sizes and recommended algorithms for various cryptographic algorithms.
The Home Of SXSW Is So Much More Than That: How Austin Got Weird : NPR
A new book, Austin to ATX, explains the creative, contrarian history of the Texas capital. As South By Southwest ravages a large swath of the city, let's take a look back.
The Believer — The California Sunday Magazine
Why the world was wrong about the "worst Olympian ever."
Working efficiently with JupyterLab Notebooks
Being in the data science domain for quite some years, I have seen good Jupyter notebooks but also a lot of ugly. Notebooks can have the perfect balance between text, code and visualisations but how often do your notebooks rather get messy and incomprehensible after a while?…
The Impossibly Cool Album Covers of Blue Note Records: Meet the Creative Te
Blue Note release—whether or not you were a fan of jazz or had heard of the artist or even the label. “If you went to those record stores,” says Estelle Caswell in the Vox Earworm video above, “it probably wasn’t the sound of Blue Note that immediately caught your attention.
The History of the Color Blue: From Ancient Egypt to the Latest Scientific Discoveries
Some scientists believe that the earliest humans were actually colorblind, and had no concept of the color blue.
Startup Sheds Some Light On Optical Processing
Optalysys, a startup based in the United Kingdom, has introduced an entry-level optical coprocessor, the first such system of its kind on the market. The
Project Management Tools Comparison: Jira vs Trello vs MS Project vs Baseca
Project management software comparison websites list about 600 different project management tools and choosing the right one can be head-spinning. We provide a list of 6 essential Project Management tools and insights on which types of projects they are most suited for.
Outline of The Elephant in the Brain
Cone of Shame Notecards
Spawned from her Cone of Shame series, photographer and creative director Winnie Au's new notecards—which are currently funding on Kickstarter—are essentials for dog lovers and design enthusiasts alike. Stylist Marie-Yan Morvan created
Reciprocity Decay
Our desire to give back wanes rapidly with time - Why if you want people to return a favor, you need to act fast
Graph neural networks: a review of methods and applications | the morning paper
How to Respond to Skepticism of Testing Small Groups of Users
“That’s just one person” and “Our real users aren’t like that” are common objections to findings from qualitative usability testing. Address these concerns proactively to ensure your research is effective.
Markets To Build In (2019)
Nine interesting markets to track in 2019.
The 50 Best Movie Soundtracks of All Time
From Black Panther to Clueless, Dazed and Confused to Purple Rain, the music that has defined modern filmmaking
Is This the Greatest Photo in Jazz History?
A quiet Sunday night in 1953. The Dodgers had just won the pennant. J.F.K. and Jacqueline Bouvier had just married. And four titans of bebop came together in a dive bar for a rare jam session.
Guns, Germs and Steel | Documentary - The Big Picture
A PBS documentary concerning the disparity between those who have advanced technology and those who still live primitively.
Learn Enough Docker to be Useful
Part 1: The Conceptual Landscape
First Listen: Tedeschi Trucks Band, 'Signs'
Veteran blues-rock powerhouses Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks return with an impassioned new album, informed by the deaths of several mentors and family members.
What Is Signaling, Really? - LessWrong 2.0
The most commonly used introduction to signaling, promoted both by Robin Hanson and in The Art of Strategy, starts with college degrees. Suppose, the…
The Jobs to be Done Data Model
A way to communicate, quantify, validate, and design for a Job to be Done
Best 106 Linux Commands with Example
4-Part Nonviolent Communication (NVC) - PuddleDancer Press
Express and receive communication empathically using the four-part Nonviolent Communication process developed by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
ROC Curve Explained in One Picture - DataScienceCentral.com
With a ROC curve, you’re trying to find a good model that optimizes the trade off between the False Positive Rate (FPR) and True Positive Rate (TPR). What counts here is how much area is under the curve (Area under the Curve = AuC). The ideal curve in the left image fills in…
Arrow Electronics API | ProgrammableWeb
Mouser Electronics | Mouser Search API Access Request
Mouser has solutions to increase productivity, reduce manual data entry and optimize time generating POs with our Electronic Order Automation Services.
http://developers.arrow.com/api/
API Solutions | DigiKey
DigiKey offers a complete set of APIs to share information and automate the ordering process.