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Above Zero by Olaf Otto Becker. Second only to Antarctica, Greenland has the largest inland ice surfaces in the world. Becker’s spectacular portraits of this region are taken during physically...
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Early in his academic career, [Paul] Schervish was a committed Democratic Socialist. But around 1990, he began interviewing wealthy people and decided that his Marxist instinct to criticize the rich...
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Yes! Video games are the best way to explain basic topology. You know those special levels in Super Mario Bros. where the screen doesn’t move with you — you’re just in a “room” and if you go off to...
View Article500 Startups-Backed VidCaster Introduces Paywall To Let Publishers Charge For...
Reblogged from TechCrunch: VidCaster was founded in 2010 to make creating video sites easier than ever, and has signed up a number of customers who use it to deliver free, or ad-supported videos...
View Articleinstalling R 2.13.1 on Amazon EC2's "Amazon Linux" AMI #rstats
Reblogged from Things I tend to forget: Condensed from this post (and comments) on David Chudzicki's blog, tweaked, and updated for R-2.13.1. Assumes you're starting with a virgin "Amazon Linux" AMI....
View ArticleGet A Job: The Craigslist Experiment
Reblogged from Thought Catalog: I am a 26-year-old with a Master’s degree in English. I am currently looking for a full-time job, preferably in a major city, since that’s where a vast multitude of...
View ArticleWhy Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa
Reblogged from Roger Launius's Blog: Ernst Stuhlinger wrote this letter on May 6, 1970, to Sister Mary Jucunda, a nun who worked among the starving children of Kabwe, Zambia, in Africa, who questioned...
View ArticleHow to make triathlons fairer
Reblogged from Hill Farm House: If one goal of a triathlon is to provide a balanced test of prowess over its three disciplines many of them don't succeed. Last weekend, for example, Paula and her...
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