Bank of the Underworld - The Atlantic

Liberty Reserve was like PayPal for the unbanked. Was it also a global money-laundering operation?

In Afghanistan’s War and Peace, WhatsApp Delivers the Message (Published 2019)

WhatsApp has proliferated in the highest echelons of the Afghan government — as well as among the Taliban.

The 21 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Series Ever

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People Are Confused About the Usefulness of Buying Fancy Things

Why luxury goods don't impress, but repel.

How to build an ecommerce machine learning project in Elixir

32K subscribers in the elixir community. Subreddit for the Elixir programming language, a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable…

The Vast of Night is an alien encounter film like no other

Film festival darling snuck up and attracted Amazon money in 2019, hits Prime this weekend.

The Box That Built the Modern World

How shipping containers made distance irrelevant.

Intel Tremont CPU Microarchitecture: Power Efficient, High-Performance x86

Intel's Tremont CPU microarchitecture will be the foundation of a next-generation, low-power processors that target a wide variety of products across

Intel's new Atom Microarchitecture: The Tremont Core in Lakefield

The buyers and sellers of Khorgos, a special trade zone on the Kazakhstan-C

The town hasn't yet become the promised global-trade nexus. Nonetheless the shopping zone has lured entrepreneurs hoping to get rich and shoppers trying to get a bargain.

How the ‘Brainy’ Book Became a Publishing Phenomenon

These uncertain times have seen a renewed interest in serious nonfiction, as people try to make sense of an unstable world.

What Happened When Oslo Decided to Make its Downtown Basically Car-Free?

If you decide to drive in downtown Oslo, be forewarned: You won’t be able to park on the street.

An Illustrated Guide to Some Useful Command Line Tools - WezM.net by Wesley Moore

A short description and screenshot of some useful command line tools I use that aren't part of typical POSIX environment.

To Catch A Bomb-Maker

This is the story of a little-known FBI forensics lab and how it changed the war on terror.

12 Sites for Free Stock Video

Adding video to your website design, particularly your home page, can engage visitors. But producing original videos can be difficult and expensive. Here is a list of websites to find free stock videos for commercial use.

Background Noises • Ambient Sounds • Relaxing Music | myNoise ®

myNoise sets the standard for online background noise machines and interactive soundscapes.

Jasmine, Basmati, Sticky, and Beyond: The Serious Eats Guide to Rice

A brief history and thorough shopping guide of the grain that became a staple across the world.

I Now Suspect the Vagus Nerve Is the Key to Well-being

“Stimulating” it leads to calmness, but how and why?

Why wonder is the most human of all emotions | Aeon Essays

One emotion inspired our greatest achievements in science, art and religion. We can manipulate it – but why do we have it?

How Pizza Hut stopped innovating its pizza and fell behind Domino’s

Once an innovation powerhouse, with creations like Stuffed Crust and BigFoot, Pizza Hut has been forced to shift focus from food to technology.

A scalable plan for onboarding your first 500 employees

Employee onboarding is a critical moment when new hires begin integrating into the culture and workflows of their new company.

The Planet Hunting Machine

Caltech professor Gregg Hallinan and his team are scanning the universe for possible Earths with cheap antennae built from parts found online, cake pans, and, yes, chicken wire—taking the lonely search for habitable planets and automating it.

The Paleta War

The word "Michoacana" has been at the center of a series of lawsuits over which paleta shops get to use it

Outfoxed and Outgunned: How China Routed the U.S. in a U.N. Agency

Clumsy diplomacy, allegations of bribery, a stinging U.S. diplomatic loss, and China's ascension in the United Nations.

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Measuring surgical quality

Not all surgeons are equally skilled with a scalpel. Doctors are developing new ways to test — and improve — operating room performance.

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

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.