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Big Fast Wide Sharp the Story of the Rowe-Ackermann Schmidt Astrograph (2016) [pdf] (amazonaws.com)

2 days ago | wallflower | amazonaws.com | newest

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"Total Eclipse" by Annie Dillard (1982) [pdf] (etsu.edu)

2 weeks ago | wallflower | etsu.edu | newest

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New analog AI chip design uses much less power for AI tasks (2023) (ibm.com)

3 weeks ago | wallflower | ibm.com | newest

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School absences have ‘exploded’ almost everywhere (nytimes.com)

3 weeks ago | wallflower | nytimes.com | best

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A Lawyer Abandoned Family and Career to Follow the Voices in His Head (wsj.com)

a month ago | wallflower | wsj.com | newest

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Weather Planning for Eclipse Day (eclipsophile.com)

a month ago | wallflower | eclipsophile.com | best

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Encyclopedia of Surfing: Surf history and culture (eos.surf)

a month ago | wallflower | eos.surf | frontpage

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"Nightfall" by Isaac Asimov (1941) (sunysb.edu)

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Gerald M. Levin, Time Warner Chief in a Merger Debacle, Dies at 84 (nytimes.com)

a month ago | wallflower | nytimes.com | newest

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My deepfake relationship with Mark Zuckerberg and why it matters (twitter.com/lauriesegall)

a month ago | wallflower | twitter.com | newest

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Total Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024 (eclipsophile.com)

a month ago | wallflower | eclipsophile.com | newest

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Total Eclipse (1982) [pdf] (etsu.edu)

a month ago | wallflower | etsu.edu | newest

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Inman Twins, Doris Duke Heirs: The Poorest Rich Kids in the World (2013) (rollingstone.com)

a month ago | wallflower | rollingstone.com | newest

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Are We in the 'Anthropocene,' the Human Age? Nope, Scientists Say (nytimes.com)

a month ago | wallflower | nytimes.com | newest

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What it's like to staff the home of a billionaire (thecut.com)

a month ago | wallflower | thecut.com | best

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Rocket Turtle (twitter.com/nodejs)

2 months ago | wallflower | twitter.com | newest

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What Is Woodshedding? Mastering the Art of Focused Music Practice (audioapartment.com)

2 months ago | wallflower | audioapartment.com | frontpage

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Picking Unfair Fights (2021) (thewoodshedd.com)

2 months ago | wallflower | thewoodshedd.com | best

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William Post, Who Helped Create Pop-Tarts, Dies at 96 (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | wallflower | nytimes.com | newest

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Hands Off. With $3,500 Headsets in the Wild, New Social Norms Apply (wsj.com)

2 months ago | wallflower | wsj.com | newest

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Rapid detection of PFAS using paper spray-based mass spectrometry (sciencedirect.com)

2 months ago | wallflower | sciencedirect.com | newest

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How Maasai agro-pastoralists form and use accidental social ties (2021) (ecologyandsociety.org)

2 months ago | wallflower | ecologyandsociety.org | frontpage

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Parents, Young Adult Children and the Transition to Adulthood (pewresearch.org)

3 months ago | wallflower | pewresearch.org | newest

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Disney unveils the HoloTile floor (ign.com)

3 months ago | wallflower | ign.com | best

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Flent: The FLExible Network Tester (flent.org)

3 months ago | wallflower | flent.org | best

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The Telemetron (2017) (media.mit.edu)

3 months ago | wallflower | mit.edu | frontpage

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What Adrian Did Next – Part 2 – Sun Microsystems (2022) (adrianco.medium.com)

3 months ago | wallflower | medium.com | best

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Microsoft Lost the API War (2004) (joelonsoftware.com)

3 months ago | wallflower | joelonsoftware.com | newest

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Perception: A back-port of Observable (pointfree.co)

3 months ago | wallflower | pointfree.co | frontpage

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The desperate race to save Generative AI (garymarcus.substack.com)

3 months ago | wallflower | substack.com | newest

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BilR is a gut microbial enzyme that reduces bilirubin to urobilinogen (nature.com)

3 months ago | wallflower | nature.com | newest

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Science Teacher Finds Missing Piece of Boeing Jet's Fuselage in His Yard (nytimes.com)

3 months ago | wallflower | nytimes.com | newest

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The Poorest Rich Kids in the World (2013) (rollingstone.com)

3 months ago | wallflower | rollingstone.com | newest

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The Worst Thing on Earth (2021) (theverge.com)

3 months ago | wallflower | theverge.com | newest

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The More Features You Add (lukew.com)

3 months ago | wallflower | lukew.com | newest

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The Art of Unix Programming (2003) (catb.org)

3 months ago | wallflower | catb.org | best

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The Telemetron (2017) (media.mit.edu)

4 months ago | wallflower | mit.edu | newest

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93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) (mcmillen.dev)

4 months ago | wallflower | mcmillen.dev | newest

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If We Could Talk to the Animals (karawynn.substack.com)

4 months ago | wallflower | substack.com | newest

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Homemade Modular Synthesiser (2020) (nervoussquirrel.com)

4 months ago | wallflower | nervoussquirrel.com | frontpage

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What made Apollo a success? (1971) [pdf] (nasa.gov)

4 months ago | wallflower | nasa.gov | best

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Apple iPhone Spatial Video on Vision Pro (cnet.com)

4 months ago | wallflower | cnet.com | newest

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The moon has been altered by human activity. Are we in a 'Lunar Anthropocene?' (space.com)

4 months ago | wallflower | space.com | newest

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The unsung geniuses who uncovered why we sleep and dream (nature.com)

4 months ago | wallflower | nature.com | newest

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iOS 17.2 Brings Apple's Journal App to the iPhone. It's Not What I Expected (cnet.com)

4 months ago | wallflower | cnet.com | newest

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Reaching the Stars in a Century Using Fusion Propulsion (2018) (i4is.org)

4 months ago | wallflower | i4is.org | newest

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On Limited Editions (1998) (woodblock.com)

4 months ago | wallflower | woodblock.com | best

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Behind the Scenes of the Most Spectacular Show on TV (nytimes.com)

4 months ago | wallflower | nytimes.com | newest

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I bought a container full of backyard electric construction equipment from China (electrek.co)

4 months ago | wallflower | electrek.co | frontpage

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Everybody Knows Flo from Progressive. Who Is Stephanie Courtney? (nytimes.com)

5 months ago | wallflower | nytimes.com | newest

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In Praise of Shenanigans (jed.co)

5 months ago | wallflower | jed.co | newest

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Chrome Manifest V3 is looming over us. Where do we stand? (adguard.com)

5 months ago | wallflower | adguard.com | newest

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A space station fell to Earth. An Australian boy brought it to San Francisco (sfgate.com)

5 months ago | wallflower | sfgate.com | best

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CUBOTino: A small, simple, 3D printed, inexpensive Rubik's Cube solver robot (github.com/andreafavero71)

5 months ago | wallflower | github.com | best

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She lived in a New York hotel for more than 40 years, but her life was a mystery (npr.org)

5 months ago | wallflower | npr.org | best

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New breed of supercomputer aims for the two quintillion mark (wsj.com)

5 months ago | wallflower | wsj.com | frontpage

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Exposure: Measuring U.S. Supply Chain Reliance [pdf] (brookings.edu)

5 months ago | wallflower | brookings.edu | newest

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The Bodily Indignities of the Space Life (nytimes.com)

5 months ago | wallflower | nytimes.com | newest

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Dime is a beautiful expense tracker built with iOS design guidelines in mind (github.com/rarfell)

5 months ago | wallflower | github.com | newest

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What the Golden Gate Is (Finally) Doing About Suicides (nytimes.com)

5 months ago | wallflower | nytimes.com | newest

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Heat-evolved algal symbionts enhance bleaching tolerance of adult corals (wiley.com)

5 months ago | wallflower | wiley.com | newest

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Galapagos Giant Tortoises Prove Their Worth as Ecosystem Engineers (hakaimagazine.com)

5 months ago | wallflower | hakaimagazine.com | newest

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Electric vehicles can help communities bounce back after a disaster (2019) (nissan-global.com)

6 months ago | wallflower | nissan-global.com | newest

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Go.com [pdf] (computer.rip)

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The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back (2022) (ian-leslie.com)

6 months ago | wallflower | ian-leslie.com | best

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What We Know About the Effects of Remote Work (nytimes.com)

6 months ago | wallflower | nytimes.com | newest

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Slack staffers are 'gaming' the company's training platform to speed through (businessinsider.com)

6 months ago | wallflower | businessinsider.com | newest

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Hasan Minhaj’s “Emotional Truths” (newyorker.com)

7 months ago | wallflower | newyorker.com | best

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Painting wind turbine blades black help birds avoid deadly collisions (2020) (smithsonianmag.com)

7 months ago | wallflower | smithsonianmag.com | best

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‘Elon Musk’ Review: Move Fast, Blow Things Up (wsj.com)

7 months ago | wallflower | wsj.com | newest

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I am dying at age 49. Here’s why I have no regrets (washingtonpost.com)

8 months ago | wallflower | washingtonpost.com | newest

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I am dying at age 49. Here’s why I have no regrets (washingtonpost.com)

8 months ago | wallflower | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Allie Beth Allman, the Queen of Highland Park (texasmonthly.com)

8 months ago | wallflower | texasmonthly.com | frontpage

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Where Everybody Knows Your Name (nytimes.com)

8 months ago | wallflower | nytimes.com | newest

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My husband just retired. I’m scared to death of running out of money (washingtonpost.com)

8 months ago | wallflower | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Rubbing Shoulders: Class Segregation in Daily Activities [pdf] (maximmassenkoff.com)

8 months ago | wallflower | maximmassenkoff.com | best

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Studying the limits of human perfection, through darts (nytimes.com)

8 months ago | wallflower | nytimes.com | frontpage

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The Deepest Submarine Rescue (2021) (newsweek.com)

8 months ago | wallflower | newsweek.com | best

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The Oregon Resilience Plan (2013) [pdf] (oregon.gov)

8 months ago | wallflower | oregon.gov | frontpage

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Drought Forces Spain to Source Drinking Water from the Sea (wsj.com)

8 months ago | wallflower | wsj.com | newest

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Death Squared: The explosive growth and demise of a mouse population (1973) [pdf] (nih.gov)

8 months ago | wallflower | nih.gov | frontpage

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The Secret Life of the 500 Cables That Run the Internet (cnet.com)

9 months ago | wallflower | cnet.com | newest

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Meta Tells Managers Promotions Will Be Few and Far Between (businessinsider.com)

9 months ago | wallflower | businessinsider.com | best

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The Evolution of Working from Home (stanford.edu)

9 months ago | wallflower | stanford.edu | newest

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Death Squared: The Explosive Growth and Demise of a Mouse Population (1973) [pdf] (nih.gov)

9 months ago | wallflower | nih.gov | newest

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Amazon Taught Alexa to Speak in an Irish Brogue (nytimes.com)

9 months ago | wallflower | nytimes.com | newest

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Oral History of Ed Fredkin (2006) [pdf] (computerhistory.org)

10 months ago | wallflower | computerhistory.org | frontpage

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The Trillion-Gallon Question: What If California's Dams Fail? (nytimes.com)

10 months ago | wallflower | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Adhesive Joining of Metal End-Caps to Composite Pressure Vessels (ntua.gr)

10 months ago | wallflower | ntua.gr | newest

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The Extraordinary Story of the Deepest Ever Submarine Rescue (2021) (newsweek.com)

10 months ago | wallflower | newsweek.com | newest

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The Coolest Library on Earth (hakaimagazine.com)

10 months ago | wallflower | hakaimagazine.com | frontpage

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Temperature-dependent RNA editing in octopus recodes the neural proteome (cell.com)

10 months ago | wallflower | cell.com | best

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The Spy Who Called Me (nytimes.com)

10 months ago | wallflower | nytimes.com | frontpage

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The Bay Area German bar that brought down Apple’s famed iPhone security (sfgate.com)

10 months ago | wallflower | sfgate.com | best

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Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation [pdf] (hhs.gov)

11 months ago | wallflower | hhs.gov | newest

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SR-71 Blackbird Speed Check Story (thesr71blackbird.com)

11 months ago | wallflower | thesr71blackbird.com | best

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Unlocking the Potential of Hybrid Work for Software Engineers [pdf] (microsoft.com)

11 months ago | wallflower | microsoft.com | newest

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The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999) (catb.org)

11 months ago | wallflower | catb.org | best

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The World’s Greatest Freediver (2021) (gq.com)

11 months ago | wallflower | gq.com | best

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The Scoop on Solar Geoengineering (technologyreview.com)

11 months ago | wallflower | technologyreview.com | frontpage