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LinuxDevices: Dual-core ARM SoC clocks to 1.2GHz.
via Hack the Planet by Wes Felter on May 16, 2008
LinuxDevices: Dual-core ARM SoC clocks to 1.2GHz.
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Finger Trees: A Simple General-Purpose Data Structure
via Hacker News by (author unknown) on May 16, 2008
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Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
via Hacker News by (author unknown) on May 16, 2008
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The Orgasmic Mind: The Neurological Roots of Sexual Pleasure [Scientific American Mind]
via Scientific American by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
She did not often have such strong emotions. But she suddenly felt powerless against her passion and the desire to throw herself into the arms of the cousin whom she saw at a family funeral. “It can only be because of that patch,” said Marianne, a participant in a multinational trial of a testosterone patch designed to treat hypoactive sexual desire disorder, in which a woman is devoid of...
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The Brain Is Not Modular: What fMRI Really Tells Us [Scientific American Magazine]
via Scientific American by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
The atom is like a solar system, with electrons whirling around the nucleus like planets orbiting a star. No, actually, it isn’t. But as a first approximation to help us visualize something that is so invisible, that image works as a metaphor.Science traffics in metaphors because our brains evolved to grasp intuitively a world far simpler than the counterintuitive world that science has only...
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XML: The Angle Bracket Tax
via Coding Horror by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
Shared by Benjamin Golub XML doesn't suck; JSON just sucks a lot less.Everywhere I look, programmers and programming tools seem to have standardized on XML. Configuration files, build scripts, local data storage, code comments, project files, you name it -- if it's stored in a text file and needs to be retrieved and parsed, it's probably XML. I realize that we have to use something...
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Inca Skull Surgeons Were "Highly Skilled," Study Finds
via National Geographic News by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
Shared by Hezy "They were aware of the medicinal properties of many wild plants, including coca and wild tobacco. These, along with maize beer, may have been used to alleviate some of the pain." brrrrrDangerous skull surgery was commonly and successfully performed among the Inca, likely as a treatment for head injuries suffered during combat, a new study finds.
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Fold It: The Protein Folding Game
via Hacker News by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
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Government Efficiency and Network Theory
via Slashdot by kdawson on May 12, 2008
Science News reports on a study relating (in a loose way) the efficiency of a national government with the size of its cabinet. Researchers in Vienna found that the development level of countries, as a proxy for the efficiency of their governments, is in general lower for countries with more members in the national cabinets. They then went on to model cabinet members as nodes in a network and...
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After the boomers, meet the children dubbed 'baby losers'
via Hacker News by (author unknown) on May 11, 2008
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