The King of Adventure Stares Down Death
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A rodeo cowboy, skydiver, firefighter, ultramarathoner and motorcycle racer, Coach Stroud is a 71-year-old badass. And he’s determined to die on his own terms.
Don’t Camp at Walmart
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Big-box parking lots are an easy stopgap, but there’s so much public land waiting for those willing to look a little.
What exactly is a disease?
There is an ongoing debate about whether or not obesity is a disease. The debate raises other questions, such as, who gets to decide what is a disease and what isn't.
Searching for The Sundays
When music writers are also music fans, they can walk a line between appreciative and intrusive.
On Hitler’s Last Desperate Plan to Destroy Paris
On August 23rd, the day after Dietrich von Choltitz dispatched Rolf Nordling to contact the Allies, Hitler sent a message to Field Marshal Walther Model and von Choltitz demanding that Paris be hel…
The Murders That Shook a Mountain Town
Last winter, Moroccan officials found two hikers dead on the trail to the highest peak in the Atlas Mountains. The international investigation that followed revealed the fragility of the adventure travel economy, as well as what happens when a small tourist hub is suddenly made…
How Capicola Became Gabagool: The Italian New Jersey Accent, Explained
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A linguistic exploration.
What This Drawing Taught Me About Four-Dimensional Spacetime
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Stuck in his research, a cosmologist finds a hint in an intricate drawing.
Restaurant Secrets From Nobu: Reservations, Unruly Celebs, Sushi
From celebrity seating warfare to dogs sipping Champagne, there’s never a dull moment at America’s most famous sushi joint.
Dr. John: The Joy and Mystery of a New Orleans Saint
Few embodied the spirit of New Orleans, or helped take its music to strange new places, the way the man born Mac Rebennack did.
Wanderland: a journey through Iran’s wild west
Nomads have been central to the country’s history for centuries. Anthony Sattin joins the roaming empire
Losing the News
The Charleston Gazette-Mail, known for its dogged accountability journalism, survived a merger and bankruptcy. Will it survive a new owner with ties to the very industries its reporters have been watchdogging?
The Art of Saying No to Invites When You REALLY Don't Want to Do Something
Plus how to actually do it—with sample scripts
Stan Smith: The Man Who Became A Shoe
How Stan Smith went from a "decent" tennis player to the most popular trainer on the planet
Buried Power Lines Make Memory Faster - IEEE Spectrum
Researchers at imec explore strategy that could make memory more efficient and pack in more transistors
The Comedians, The Mob and the American Supperclub by Kliph Nesteroff
"The Mob was an integral part of everything." - Comedian Jackie Curtiss "I worked for a lot of gentlemen of that persuasion over the years. I learned a long time ago when I worked for Frank Costello in New York...
TF-IDF: The best content optimization tool SEOs aren’t using - Search Engin
Term frequency–inverse document frequency uncovers the specific words that top-ranking pages use to give target keywords context.
yzhao062/pyod: A Python Toolbox for Scalable Outlier Detection (Anomaly Det
A Python Library for Outlier and Anomaly Detection, Integrating Classical and Deep Learning Techniques - yzhao062/pyod
Bullet Time
An inquiry into how young people are hanging out on the internet.
In Memory And Near-Memory Compute
How much power is spent storing and moving data.
5 tactics that encourage customer reviews
Make sure your business pages are claimed and ready for reviews – then be ready with a strategy to respond to them.
Articles - Ness Labs
This archive page lists the last 100 articles in the Ness Labs library by date and title. Articles are listed in reverse chronological order with the newest articles at the top and the oldest ones at the bottom. If you want to read the best articles first, you can also explore…
30 mental models to add to your thinking toolbox - Ness Labs
Mental models affect how we see problems and people. Depending on how you use them, mental models can be incredibly constructive or destructive.
Free SaaS tools for companies on a budget (and a pre-formatted budgeting sheet) - Canny Blog
Not every SaaS company has endless spare money. One of the biggest piggy bank breakers are the tools we use—and it adds up fast.
Our 6 Must Reads for Cutting Through Conflict and Tough Conversations
Big ideas, strong-willed characters, impossible deadlines and close quarters — if you wrote out a recipe for conflict, it might bear an uncanny resemblance to the high-stakes, pressure-cooker environment of a startup. We spoke with top engineers, seasoned managers and experts in…
A Gentle Introduction to Noise Contrastive Estimation
Find out how to use randomness to learn your data by using Noise Contrastive Estimation with this guide that works through the particulars of its implementation.
Inside a Top-Secret Factory Where Scent Is Made
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A peek at the scientists who chemically engineer the scents behind numerous commercial products.
UT Southwestern’s Cutting-Edge Battle Against Rare, Fatal Childhood Disease
With a new gene therapy center almost completed, the medical center is providing hope for families who previously had little.
The Science Behind “Blade Runner”’s Voight-Kampff Test - Facts So Romantic
Is Rick Deckard a replicant, an advanced bioengineered being? The jury concerning the character in 1982’s Blade Runner is still out. Harrison Ford, who plays Deckard in the film, thinks he’s human. Ridley Scott, the film’s director, is adamant that he’s not.* Hampton Fancher…
Stay Around by J.J. Cale
Stay Around by J.J. Cale album reviews & Metacritic score: The 15-track release posthumous album of unreleased songs were compiled by his widow, Christine Lakeland Cale and manager Mike Kappus....
Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram Breathes Life Into The Blues
The 20-year-old guitar phenom understands the blues as a lifeline, a malleable language, a way of being in the world.
The Peculiar Blindness of Experts
Credentialed authorities are comically bad at predicting the future. But reliable forecasting is possible.
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To avoid moral failure, don’t see people as Sherlock does | Aeon Ideas
Elementary, my dear Sherlock: it’s moral failure to see people as objects to be studied or as evidence to be interpreted
Archaeology of the 99%
The vast majority of people in antiquity were too poor to leave many artifacts behind. But archaeologists have learned how to look beyond the temples and palaces.
The Bizarre Tale of a Cursed Russian Ghost Ship
The Russian ship called the Ivan Vassili began its life in St. Petersburg in 1897, where it was built as a civilian steam
Meet a scientist with a most delightful job: He studies baby laughter
Babies start laughing before they can speak, and this delicious sound just may serve as a powerful source of human communication and connection, says psychology researcher Caspar Addyman.
The Seaside Portuguese Town That Inspired James Bond
Estoril, which was once the wartime home of royalty seeking sanctuary—and the spies who watched them—enjoys an enchanting faded glamour today
The Lowest of Low Seasons at the Edge of the World
The 52 Places Traveler was one of four tourists on the remote Falkland Islands, also known as Las Malvinas. But there were thousands of penguins.
The Black-Scholes formula, explained
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Bias Busters: Knowing when to kill a project
You’re keen on encouraging innovation and letting a thousand flowers bloom, but how do you sort the weeds from the seeds?
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How to assess the quality of garments: A Beginner's Guide {Part I} — Anusch
What's the number one prerequisite to building a high-quality wardrobe? Exactly: You need to be able to recognize a quality garment when you see one. You need to be able to tell the difference between a durable, well-crafted piece and one that looks pretty on the rack but won't…
How to Sew on a Button
Learn how to sew a button quickly and correctly with this photo guide.
Why Arabic Is Terrific (Idle Words)
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Startup Runs AI in Novel SRAM
Areanna claims that a custom SRAM delivers 100 TOPS/W on deep learning, but it’s early days for the startup.
Inside the Booming Business of Background Music - The Guardian - Pocket
Once derided, the successors to muzak have grown more sophisticated – and influential – than any of us realize.
Jazz’s Sisterhood: Regina Carter, Renee Rosnes, and More Women Transforming
For a century, jazz was a men’s club. Now a vanguard of women virtuosi—including these 16 standouts—are reshaping this most American of art forms.
The Oyster Poachers of Connemara - Saveur - Pocket
In Ireland, few things are black and white, especially the law—and the tales of men who break it to dive for treasure under cover of darkness