Link. Chen gives good advice.
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Google’s A.I. recognizes cats. Laugh while you can.
Link. If connectome doubles q2Y…
Colorado fires: not a trend.
Link. GOP reassures – no climate trend here.
Why are remotes so awful? Or, why is Apple so wealthy?
Link. A trillion dollar question.
Difference between running Bain and running the US.
Link. Inarguable.
Dilbert: The rules of spawn boasting.
Link. Guide to polite behavior.
Redefining autism: the role of EEG
Link. Old tech EEG may help define what we mean by “autism” and “aspergers”.
Stress and dementia.
Link. Stress shortens telomeres. This is just accelerated aging.
Billion dollars for 41 jobs.
Link. Data center economics.
WebRTC – unifying the tubes.
Link. Trains once ran on incompatible tracks.
The Microcomputer In Your Chest Needs A Modem.
Link. Like fax.
An Alzheimer’s Researcher with early onset disease.
Link. Not rare.
Sympathy for Merkel
Link. MN would never agree to subsidize South Carolina.
Shades of Psychopathy
Link. The charmingly amoral are dangerous fun. “As the authors emphasize, almost-psychopaths are “far better at doing what they do than we will ever be in detecting and stopping them. And sometimes that requires that you escape a bad situation and allow others to come to their senses in their own time.””
Cheetah running.
Link. Zoo cheetah are slow.
Rethinking Juvenile Justice.
Link. Surprisingly rational.
Riots – Zuotan, Shaxi.
Using large-scale brain simulations for machine learning and A.I.
Link. Neandertal sees the graciles coming over the ridge …
Chrome broken in OS X due to certificate change: Issue 108238 – Canary asks for access to every keychain item
Link. If it’s not Apple, it’s Google. Costing me sleep.
iCloud transition went as expected.
Link. Sleep deprivation.
Apple Should Eat Some Sandbox Dog Food
Link. Nasty Apple.
Operation BearLove Good, Cancer Bad has ended. Now what?
Link. Carreon gives scum a bad name.
Don’t Tell Deficit Fanatics To Go To Hell; They’re Already There
Don’t Buy Gevalia Coffee Unless You Want To Be Ripped Off
Link. Now i know.
The Tyrant of Clipperton Island
Link. Movie material. Absolutely.
101 easy steps to having it all
Link. Estrogen poisoning.
Poll: Republicans hate ‘Obamacare,’ but like most of what it does
Consumer riots in China.
Link. Strength in numbers.
Why does wall street favor the extreme right?
Link. There are probably historic precedents.
Internet Providers Testing Metered Plans for Broadband
Link. Real problem is lack of competition.
Walter Mondale, Arne Carlson among the co-chairs of anti-Voter ID effort
Link. Carlson is former GOP governor.
The Safety Net, Health Care, and Work Supports
Link. Our agenda: “Full employment, health reform that finds efficiencies where waste prevails today, and enough work supports to make work pay even in the lowest wage jobs.”
What will happen to Nokia?
Link. “.. Microsoft capitalizing a spun-off Nokia Smartphones company in exchange for a small equity stake”
GOP whacko joins committee to reelect Obama.
Link. Impeachment threats help bring out the base.
Fragmentation and Segmentation
From killer chimp to lover: Tiny genetic change made Bonobos.
Link. How much has our genome changed in 10,000 years?
NASA Blue Marble earth images 2012
Link. Pick your view and download.
Massive open online course – Wikipedia
Link. Worth scanning.
Google pushing chromebooks for pre-college education.
Link. Good fit. I hope it works.
Bicycling cities of North America
Link. Make MN cycling safer by enforcing the crosswalk law. (Broken windows.)
How to make New York’s cyclists safer
Corruption in American politics: review of Lessig book.
Link. Perhaps we prefer sheephood.
Guilded Age 2.
Link. Weird times.
Facebook email switch.
Link. Mine hasn’t changed yet.
Forest boy outed.
Link. “Mr Van Helsum, 20, had lived at Berlin’s expense while he maintained the fiction that he was a 17-year-old called Ray who had spent years living in the forests. His cover was only blown when old classmates in his hometown of Hengelo recognised his picture on the news. It emerged later that he had travelled to Berlin just days before he re-cast himself as Ray.” Nasty and/or deeply troubled.
Massive computer network IDs cat.
Link. Laughter should be nervous.
Is price stability immoral?
Proton pump inhibitors create dependence
Link. Same problem as nasal decongestants. “P.P.I.’s work by blocking the production of acid in the stomach, but the body reacts by overcompensating and, she said, “revving up production” of acid-making cells. “You get excess growth of those cells in the stomach, so when you unblock production, you have more of the acid-making machinery,” she said.”
Micro vs. macro: one is politically acceptable.
Link. Inconvenient truths.
How to build a perpetually rotating Space-Time Crystal.
Link. Tardis power.