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Why Pygmies Aren't Scared by the 'Psycho' Theme
The Video That Made Anonymous
When Beyoncé Samples Your TED Talk, This Is What Happens to Your Book
Data Portraits: Connecting People of Opposing Views
Etymology of “dude” is traced to "doodle," as in Yankee Doodle Dandy
'W' Considered Harmful
How to Read Academic Articles
To diagnose heart disease, visualization experts recommend a simpler approach
The Black Swan of Cairo
Willpower is in your mind, not in a sugar cube
Re:If a mathematician wants to cross a road
on Monday May 20, 2013 @08:49PM (#5741228)
I do remember my high school physics teacher mentioning this during optics... he used an example of the most optimal path for a lifeguard.
Re:Choosing Minecraft over Disney
on Monday May 20, 2013 @12:18PM (#5738399)
He's right :( just checked, and it's available until 5/22/13.
Re:Choosing Minecraft over Disney
on Sunday May 19, 2013 @09:12PM (#5735260)
I second that. Avatar: The Last Airbender deals with a lot of potentially serious material deftly, with humor and grace to match. All three season are on Netflix's Instant Streaming.
The Personal Analytics of My Life
The Unfettered Mind by Takuan Soho
'One Nation Under Stress,' With To-Do Lists And Yoga For All
Brains Got Game: The Amazing Minds of Freestyle Rappers
Re:Why I wear the same shirt every day
on Friday September 07, 2012 @05:08PM (#4491181)
Or a Power Ranger.
Re:Doctor Who goes back in time to beat TV pirates
on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @02:18PM (#4450197)
This rather funny cartoon sums up the difference between Tennant's Doctor and Smith's:
http://hi3ei.deviantart.com/art/Differences-201740537?moodon...
Re:A First Course in Linear Algebra
on Friday August 10, 2012 @12:13PM (#4366792)
What impresses me is the accessibility of this textbook. Not only is it available online (via XML and MathML) but you can download the TeX source and multiple PDFs optimized for printing or on-screen viewing [1].
Bravo.
Re:Internet Archive Starts Seeding 1,398,875 Torrents
on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @11:29PM (#4353740)
Yes! A lot of the audio is available via torrent now [1].
"Decent chilean electronica" nice, but the Internet Archive has an impressive collection of live music; you can thank the Grateful Dead for letting people tape their concerts [2].
[1] http://archive.org/details/bittorrentaudio
[2] http://blog.archive.org/2012/03/27/sharing-works-100000-conc...
Re:What college rankings really tell us
on Friday August 03, 2012 @09:45PM (#4337141)
It always seemed to me that his dad cared more about the prestige factor than the actual quality of education his son received.
Sadly, the prestige factor doesn't end when one enters college. My sister and I are Asian American and our parents emigrated from the Philippines. My sister's majoring in Urban Studies at Stanford. Despite this, my father insists on telling family, friends, co-workers, etc. that she's studying law.
Quite a shame indeed.
Re:The No Excuse List: The Best Place On The Web To Learn Anything
on Thursday August 02, 2012 @05:25PM (#4331094)
Don't forget the continued discussion on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4240007
Re:Slime Molds solve the travelling salesman problem
on Friday July 27, 2012 @11:06PM (#4304566)
Fascinating! My interest in slime now biological, no longer bound to Emacs and Minecraft!
Re:An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem
on Friday July 27, 2012 @10:43PM (#4304519)
Has anything been added to the article? Or is this simply a repost--albeit, a welcomed one--as the URL's query string suggests? [1]
Re:A Different Road To Work, Bypassing College Dreams
on Friday July 27, 2012 @03:31PM (#4303201)
I can't help but be reminded of PG's essay, "Why Nerds are Unpopular," where he talks about teenage apprentices in the Renaissance. Also, his point about specialization seems appropriate here.
Re:Physical assault by McDonald's for wearing Digital Eye Glass
on Monday July 16, 2012 @10:34PM (#4253804)
France's McDonald's operates like an entirely different restaurant [1].
[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/01/24/145698222/why-mc...
Re:Google now answers "what is my ip"?
on Friday October 21, 2011 @11:43PM (#3142696)
DuckDuckGo also has this feature for the privacy-concerned.
Re:Poll: Greatest productivity app on Mac?
on Monday August 08, 2011 @06:01PM (#2861765)
If you like, there are configurations that make vim act like conventional text editors[1][2]. To paraphrase Umberto Eco, I like vim for the same reason other people like football or pedophilia. People have their preferences[3].
[1] http://arstechnica.com/open-source/guides/2009/05/vim-made-e...
[2] http://cream.sourceforge.net/
[3] http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,659577,...