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Irma Thomas, a Soul Queen Far Beyond New Orleans
As she turns 81, the singer whose intimacy matches her grandeur is the subject of a public television documentary, “Irma: My Life in Music.”
Did jazz forget about Oscar Peterson?
The visionary pianist influenced everyone from Quincy Jones to Billy Joel, while flying under the fame radar himself. A new documentary tells the unsung hero’s story.
Formatting Ruby: Part 1
This post is part of a series about how ruby-syntax-tree/syntax_tree works under the hood.
How to Commit Murder Inside a Locked Room
Few genres are more preposterous than the locked room mystery. The premises are absurd and plot solutions ridiculous—but still I keep on reading.
The Best Ruby HTTP clients for 2021 | ScrapingBee
This article will discuss the best HTTP clients in Ruby. Faraday, HTTParty, Rest-client...it can be hard to choose the best one.
20 Cannabis Edibles That Are Truly, Actually Delicious
The world of cannabis is bursting with new flavors—here are ones worth picking up.
The Most Prized Watch Brands You’ve Never Heard Of
The rising prices of Rolexes and Pateks have collectors turning to what one expert called “the dead brands society.”
The Little TV Industry That Could
Want a medical drama, a spy thriller, a snowy neo-noir? Finland has you covered.
The Babushka of Baikal, the granny in her 80th year who has popularised the
How the Riot Grrrl Movement Created a Revolution in Rock & Punk
The Riot Grrrl movement feels like one of the last real revolutions in rock and punk, and not just because of its feminist, anti-capitalist politics. As Polyphonic outlines in his short music history video, Riot Grrrl was one of the last times anything major happened in rock…
Beyond Rumours: Building a Fleetwood Mac Record Collection
AllMusic provides comprehensive music info including reviews and biographies. Get recommendations for new music to listen to, stream or own.
Smashing Newsletter
An ancient language has defied decryption for 100 years. Can AI crack the c
Machine learning can translate between two known languages, but could it ever decipher those that remain a mystery to us?
The Rise and Fall of a Prison Town Queen
A family feud over drugs, money and fried fish roils the heart of the Texas prison system.
Opinion | The depressing final act of Eric Clapton
Bigotry and ignorance, in the age of the internet, have a way of catching up with you. And Clapton’s racism and conspiracy theories can no longer be ignored.
Crypto Glossary of Terms And Jargon
Learn all of the most important blockchain and cryptocurrency terms and jargon here. We add new words and descriptions every week.
$3.6 billion bitcoin seizure shows how hard it is to launder cryptocurrency
A couple allegedly used a “laundry list” of technical measures to cover their tracks. They didn’t work.
Color Picker with Ruby on Rails 6, Stimulus and Webpacker
A tutorial to integrate a Javascript color picker library Pickr, with Ruby on Rails 6.0, StimulusJS, and Webpacker.
Library of design inspiration examples & user flows from web apps • Nicely
Browse a curated design library of web app screens, UI components and User flows from top SaaS web apps, inspiring product teams from leading companies.
How Crypto’s Original Bubble Boy Rode Ethereum And Is Now Pulling The Strings Of The DeFi Boom
Now he’s pulling the strings, and raking in hundreds of millions, from a blockchain rage called DeFi, which promotes the fantasy of democratized financial services.
Intelligent System Security
We present a novel approach to infiltrate data to air-gapped systems without any additional hardware on-site.
A step by step guide to scenario mapping - UXM
Scenario mapping is a really quick, easy and dare I say it even fun way to collaboratively create, discuss and communicate user scenarios. Find out how to go about creating scenario maps and why they’re so damn useful in the first place.
Topic Modeling in Python | Toptal
Topic modeling can bring NLP to the next level. Here’s how.
Micromanipulation: The Covert Tactic That Narcissists Use in Arguments to Reassert Control
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Here’s how to recognize its damaging effects.
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The LA Rams are winners in football. They’re ‘loss leaders’ in economics
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(PDF) Text is not the enemy: How illiterates' use their mobile phones
PDF | Despite 800 million illiterate people worldwide little research has aimed at understanding how they use and appropriate mobile phones. We... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2021 | PortSwigger Research
Welcome to the Top 10 (new) Web Hacking Techniques of 2021, the latest iteration of our annual community-powered effort to identify the most significant web security research released in the last year
Why I changed my mind about advertising | The Sample blog
I used to be very anti-advertising. Fast forward two years and several pivots, and my slightly-less-early-stage business is doing $900 per month in revenue... from ads.
With Coffee, It Pays to Be a Homebody
Elevate everything.
The 4 Main Types of Intellectual Property and Related Costs
There are four primary ways that businesses can protect their intellectual property (IP) assets: patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.
How Artists Use Psychology to Price a Painting
Driven by buyers' need for consistency and explanation, the most popular pricing method uses a surprisingly simple formula based on size.
How to Find Seed Keywords and Explore Topic Clusters
Creating a short list of seed keywords is fundamental to search engine optimization, content marketing, and pay-per-click advertising. But for some marketers, the task of identifying seed keywords isn't clear.
The Accidental Invention of Bubble Wrap
Two inventors turned a failed experiment into an irresistibly poppable product that revolutionized the shipping industry
Breaking Bad became one of the best TV shows ever by borrowing a trick from Shakespeare
The show balanced improvisation and careful planning thanks to its overarching structure.
8 Principles for Building a High-Performance Culture | The Leading Blog: A Leadership Blog
Leadership Now is a leading source for leadership development and analysis. We believe that anyone can make a difference by leading from where they are.
How to Build an Ecommerce Keyword List
Keywords are an important building block for ecommerce marketing. Developing and maintaining a keyword list may help an ecommerce business understand shoppers and do a better job of marketing to them. In the context of search engine optimization, searchers' words or phrases…
Five Reasons to Sell End-to-End Products in Early Markets by @ttunguz
In early and developing markets, selling complete products is often a superior go to market strategy, rather than selling an innovation in a layer in the stack. This is true for five reasons. First, for early customers to generate value from a novel technology, that technology…
What might Amazon’s six-page narrative structure look like?
If you want to move to a Jeff Bezos–style executive meeting without PowerPoint, with a six-page narrative memo, you mustn't forget the narrative. Here's why
Shopify and the Power of Platforms
It is all but impossible to beat an Aggregator head-on, as Walmart is trying to do with Amazon. The solution instead is to build a platform like Shopify.
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The 87 Most Essential Tools For Data-Driven Product Management
Like CEOs, data-driven product managers need a variety of different tools, skills, and capabilities. Here's the tools product managers need to succeed.
The Tribal Network Effect (nfx #15)
Today, we’re sharing the newest social nfx we've identified—the 15th type of network effect: Tribal Network Effects.
18 Cognitive Bias Examples Show Why Mental Mistakes Get Made
Here are 18 of the most common mental mistakes in business and investing. Make sure to learn from these cognitive bias examples to make better decisions.
Heart of Mold
Why we’re obsessed with heart-shaped foods around Valentine’s Day—especially the suddenly ubiquitous heart-shaped pizza.
Filmmaking Process
From sequence to shot to frame, explore our studio pipeline.
In a world gone digital, Moleskine still believes in the power of paper
"Paper is not going away, it's not going anywhere," CEO Daniela Riccardi said. Here's how she's keeping it relevant for consumers.
The economics of Spotify
Spotify’s recent Joe Rogan controversy has also deepened a rift between the platform and artists over pay.
The Not-so-Sexy SQL Concepts to Make You Stand Out
Databases are the houses of our data and data scientists HAVE TO HAVE A KEY! In this article, I discuss some lesser known concepts of SQL that data scientists do not familiarize themselves with.