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Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices
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OUP Academic
Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices: Spices taste good because they are good for us
Spices are plant products used in flavoring foods and beverages. For thousands of years, aromatic plant materials have been used in food preparation and preserv
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Blue Origin makes a big lunar announcement without any fanfare
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Ars Technica
Blue Origin makes a big lunar announcement without any fanfare
"Although our vision is technically ambitious, our technology is real now."
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Walmart to Close Three Tech Hubs, Tells Tech Staff to Return to Offices
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WSJ
WSJ News Exclusive | Walmart to Close Three Tech Hubs, Tells Tech Staff to Return to Offices
The retail giant is closing offices in Austin, Texas, Portland, Ore., and Carlsbad, Calif., and telling hundreds of staff they must relocate to keep their jobs.
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The Retaliation: Pranking My Roommate with Targeted Facebook Ads (2014)
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Ghost Influence
How I Pranked My Roommate With Eerily Targeted Facebook Ads
This is the chronicle of the most epic retaliation and how I pranked my roommate with targeted Facebook Ads to the point of complete paranoia and delusion.
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United Flight 1722 came within 775 feet of plunging into Pacific Ocean
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The Air Current
United dive after Maui departure adds to list of industry close calls
The previously unreported December incident saw the Boeing 777 come within 800 feet of the Pacific Ocean.
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DuckDuckGPT brings ChatGPT to search results
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GitHub
userscripts/chatgpt/duckduckgpt at master · adamlui/userscripts
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Greasemonkey userscripts. Contribute to adamlui/userscripts development by creating an account on GitHub.
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A grim environmental disaster is happening in Ohio and you've not heard about it
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Fast Company
A horrific environmental disaster is happening in Ohio, and you may not even have heard about it
The EPA says it’s safe to return to East Palestine after a train derailment sparked a toxic chemical fire, but locals are worried about ongoing health impacts.
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U.S. Copyright Office Tells Judge That AI Artwork Isn’t Protectable
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Peta Pixel
U.S. Copyright Office tells Judge that AI Artwork isn’t Protectable
A computer scientist is trying to get his AI machine named as author.
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Google’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compiler – A Primer
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Math ∩ Programming
Google's Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compiler — A Primer
Back in May of 2022 I transferred teams at Google to work on Fully Homomorphic Encryption (newsletter announcement). Since then I’ve been working on a variety of projects in the space, including being the primary maintainer on github.com/google/fully-homomorphic…
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Bigscreen Beyond – The Smallest VR Headset
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From Swiping to Sexting: The Gender Divide in American Dating and Relationships
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The Survey Center on American Life
From Swiping to Sexting: The Enduring Gender Divide in American Dating and Relationships - The Survey Center on American Life
The January 2023 American Perspectives Survey sheds some light on dating preferences, experiences, and perspectives. The national survey of more than 5,000 adults age 18 and older, including nearly 800 single adults, finds that Americans have strong dating…
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Twilio to cut 17% staff, close offices to focus on profitability
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Reuters
Twilio announces another round of layoffs, reorg in profit push
Cloud communications company Twilio Inc said on Monday it was eliminating about 17% roles and closing some offices as part of a restructuring effort to focus on profitability.
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Plant remains from a 15th century royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea
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journals.plos.org
The king’s spice cabinet–Plant remains from Gribshunden, a 15th century royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea
Maritime archaeological investigations of the wreck of the medieval warship Gribshunden (1495), flagship of King Hans of Denmark and Norway, have revealed diverse artifacts including exotic spices imported from far distant origins: saffron, ginger, clove…
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Problem solving with dimensional analysis
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Gregorygundersen
Problem Solving with Dimensional Analysis
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The Return of the X-Flares
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More than five whys and “layer eight” problems
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Ask HN: Any HNers have air quality sensors near-ish 'East Palistine, Ohio'?
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How Does Human Echolocation Work?
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Smithsonian Magazine
How Does Human Echolocation Work?
Blind since he was very young, Daniel Kish is the world's foremost proponent of using vocal clicks to navigate
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Only You Can Stop an AI Apocalypse
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Better without AI
Only you can stop an AI apocalypse | Better without AI
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What Colour are your bits? (2004)
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Ansuz - mskala's home page
What Colour are your bits? - Ansuz - mskala's home page
As of Summer 2024, my article "What Colour are your bits?" has been
online 20 years, and people are still linking to it as a benchmark. It's
clear that people still care about intellectual property in general and
copyright in particular, and the difference…
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Show HN: Sign-up flows from 100s of websites made publicly available
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Formsort
The finest form flows from across the web
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