Entries from July 2012 ↓

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• Meet The Genius Kids Of The Google Science Fair | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
  Artificial neural networks can detect patterns that are too complicated for humans to spot. Wenger’s neural network, which is hosted on the Google App Engine, was tested on FNA data (681 samples) collected by the University of Wisconsin. The result–99.1% sensitivity to malignancy–is 5% higher than the best commercial network’s result.
• How We Got 50 Women to Our Hackathon (And You Can, Too) | Lauren Gilchrist | Brick by Brick
• Greed, Green & Grains: A New Normal?

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• ‘How to Be a Woman,’ by Caitlin Moran – NYTimes.com
• NYTimes: Hollywood Mythmaker Buys a Real-Life Pandora
  Hollywood Mythmaker Buys a Real-Life Pandora
  The director James Cameron, now writing two “Avatar” sequels, has bought 2,500 acres of New Zealand farmland and established a home.

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• Shitscalators. | jwz
• Romney’s Critique of Obama’s Foreign Policy Record Won’t Fly – TIME
• ‘Why Is Reddit So Anti-Women?’: An Epic Reddit Thread Counts the Ways – Entertainment – The Atlantic Wire
• I Hate This Book So Much: A Meditation | Entertainment | TIME.com
• 15 Code Editors For the iPad – For Free or Very Cheap
• Education in the Cloud
• Letters of Note: The proverbial "really good" sci-fi movie
• New Apple Campaign Urges Consumers To Buy iPhone For Other Hand | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
• Why Macs Before 2011 Can’t Use AirPlay Mirroring In Mountain Lion cultofmac.com/178460/the-rea…

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• Site Reliability Engineers: “solving the most interesting problems”

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• How to suck at your religion – The Oatmeal
• ReadWriteWeb: Girls Who Code: Crashing the "Brogram"
  The high-tech industry is largely a guy’s world made up of brogrammers and job ads that ask, "Want to bro down and crush code?" Small wonder that women made up just 21% of all programmers in 2010, off from 24% in 2000. Or that less than 10% of venture-backed companies have women founders. An organization called Girls Who Code is trying to reboot the system starting from the beginning.
  Girls Who Code is working to close the tech gender gap by teaching girls 13 to 17 the skills they need for a career in technology. Its first program is this summer, eight weeks of 8-hour sessions in New York City where 20 girls are learning everything from coding to pitching a business plan to investors…
  http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2012/07/girls-who-code-crashing-the-brogram.php
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• Arguments from Global Warming Skeptics and what the science really says
  Here is a summary of global warming and climate change myths, sorted by recent popularity vs what science says. Click the response for a more detailed response. You can also view them sorted by taxonomy, by popularity, in a print-friendly version, with short URLs or with fixed numbers you can use for permanent references.
• Nobel laureate occasionally hangs out on street corners, answering physics questions – Boing Boing

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• Chronostasis – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  The most well-known version of this illusion is the stopped-clock illusion, where the first movement of the second hand of an analog clock, following the viewer’s directing attention to the clock, appears to take longer than the next movement.
• Ireland Bulldozes Ghost Estate in Life After Real Estate Bubble
• Sublime Text 2 Shortcuts (OS X) Cheat Sheet by example42 – Cheatography.com
• "There are now more than 17000 webpages in which Wenlock is compared to a giant penis" bit.ly/NPGLF9 I’m not alone there then.

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• Bill Moyers Essay: Living Under the Gun | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com
• The Aurora Movie Theatre Shooting and American Gun Culture : The New Yorker
• The Certainty of More Shootings – James Fallows – The Atlantic
• Mona Lisa’s Skeleton Found? : Discovery News
• Two Tough Guys Meet Tough Times, And Each Other : NPR
  ‘Back in 2008, "Boston" Bill Hansbury was learning to live with a prosthetic after losing his leg to an infection. That’s when he met Jake Bainter, who was about to have his right leg amputated…’
• The Jeremy Lin Debate No One Wants to Have: The Q: GQ
• Aurora Shooting – We’ve Seen This Before – NYTimes.com
  Immediately after a shooting last month in the food court of the Eaton Centre mall in Toronto, a young woman named Jessica Ghawi posted a blog entry. Three minutes before a gunman opened fire, she had been seated at the exact place he fired from.

  “I was shown how fragile life was,” she wrote. “I saw the terror on bystanders’ faces. I saw the victims of a senseless crime. I saw lives change. I was reminded that we don’t know when or where our time on Earth will end. When or where we will breathe our last breath.”

  This same woman was one of the fatalities at the midnight screening in Aurora.

• 30 Awesome Behind The Scenes Photos From Old Movies
• Spike in Shootings, Murders Creates ‘Wild, Wild Midwest’ Effect in Chicago – The Daily Beast
• The Apollo 11 Journey in Photographs – Alexis Madrigal – The Atlantic
• Store a Password In Your Brain Without Remembering it | Australian Popular Science
• The ebbing of the body politic
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• Noisy Typer – a typewriter for your laptop. | F.A.T.
• In First, Software Emulates Lifespan of Entire Organism – NYTimes.com
• The Clothesline Paradox and the Sharing Economy (pdf with notes)

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• Intro to JavaScript and jQuery – Girl Develop It Austin (Austin, TX) – Meetup
  RT @garannm: If you’re a woman in Austin who’s been wanting to learn JavaScript.. It’s that time again!
• Announcing Power Track – Full Firehose filtering for the Tweets you want – Gnip Blog
• Michigan State Representative Silenced By GOP For Saying ‘Vagina’ | TPM2012
  Michigan House Republicans blocked a state representative from speaking on the floor on Thursday after she referenced certain parts of female anatomy in a speech on an abortion bill.
• Georgia Lawmaker Compares Women to Cows and Pigs | Video Cafe
  Republican Georgia state Rep. Terry England says that his experience with cows, pigs and chickens has proven to him that women should be forced to have their babies after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
• The Campaign Against Women – NYTimes.com
• Article: Wal-Mart heirs worth as much as bottom 41.5% of American families
  http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-walmart-heirs-20120718,0,1882208.story
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