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https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1819576527/
The Onion
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
ISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing…
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https://textbooks.math.gatech.edu/ila/index.html
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https://ismy.blue/
ismy.blue
Is my blue your blue?
Test your color perception with this interactive test.
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https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240903-removing-the-klamath-river-dams-to-restore-the-river-what-happens-next
Bbc
'Anything that can be built can be taken down': The largest dam removal in US history is complete – what happens next?
The Klamath River is free of four huge dams for the first time in generations. But for the Yurok tribe, the river's restoration is only just beginning – starting with 18 billion seeds.
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https://climate.benjames.io/solar-will-get-too-cheap-to-connect-to-the-power-grid/
Ben James
Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid.
The cost of solar panels is plummeting, and this will flood the power grid with cheap electricity. But that’s just Act 1. We won’t stop building solar at the limits of the grid - we’ll build a lot more.
This post explains why we'll keep building more,
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/05/common-food-dye-found-to-make-skin-and-muscle-temporarily-transparent
the Guardian
Common food dye found to make skin and muscle temporarily transparent
Researchers say procedure not yet tested on people could eventually be used to help locate injuries or tumours
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https://www.alphaxiv.org/
www.alphaxiv.org
Discuss, discover, and read arXiv papers.
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https://www.realornotquiz.com/
Realornotquiz
Real Or Not
The growing quality in AI images makes them harder to spot. Can you tell if an image is real or AI generated?
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https://mastodon.social/@LukaszOlejnik/113193089731407165
Mastodon
Lukasz Olejnik (@LukaszOlejnik@mastodon.social)
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GREAT change is approaching. NIST will standardise prohibition of requirement of composing passwords from various character styles, and requirement for periodic password changes. These are harmful and obsolete rules. Now they will be treated…
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https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/octopuses-hunt-with-fish-punch-video-rcna171705
NBC News
Octopuses recorded hunting with fish — and punching those that don't cooperate
Octopuses have often been thought to prowl the seafloor solo using camouflage. But a new study suggests that some have surprisingly rich social lives.
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https://musicbrainz.org/
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https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2024/tde/
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https://dlmultimedia.esa.int/download/public/videos/2024/10/023/orig-2410_023_AR_EN.mp4
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Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) v4.0
https://ieeecs-media.computer.org/media/education/swebok/swebok-v4.pdf
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https://michaelcharl.es/aubrey/en/code/new-rebeccapurple-css-logo
Michael Charles Aubrey
CSS Gets a New Logo: And It Uses the Color `rebeccapurple` | MichaelCharl.es/Aubrey (Michael Charles Aubrey)
A community vote in the CSS-Next repository on GitHub decided on a new official logo for CSS. The design follows the design language of the logos of other web technologies like JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly. A demonstration of the new rebeccapurple…
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0j1z14p57po
Bbc
Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths
For the first time, the annual report delved into race and ethnic data of those who underwent assisted dying.
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https://www.openerv.ca/
www.openerv.ca
Fresh outdoor air all year round.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234
arXiv.org
The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?
This article is about the neural conundrum behind the slowness of human behavior. The information throughput of a human being is about 10 bits/s. In comparison, our sensory systems gather data at...
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https://youtu.be/W3I3kAg2J7w?si=ionblrSiNxr-7DxP
YouTube
What "Follow Your Dreams" Misses | Harvey Mudd Commencement Speech 2024
I had the pleasure of being invited to give Harvey Mudd's commencement speech this year.
Reposted here with permission from the University
Timestamps:
0:00 - End of Harriet Nembhard's introduction
0:45 - The cliché
2:28 - The shifting goal
5:57 - Action…
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https://roelsworld.eu/blog-music/music-geometry-intervals-scales/
ROEL\'S WORLD (blog)
Music & Geometry - Intervals & Scales - ROEL'S WORLD (blog)
An article about music and geometry, in particular about musical intervals and scales and their geometric equivalent ...