Sunday, 7. October 12018
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1848 – Die vergessene Revolution.

What really helps the poor?

It’s difficult to test whether poverty relief actually works. Do randomised controlled trials provide a scientific measure?

Lessons from the Last Swiss Finishing School.

The women, many of whom had attended M.B.A. programs, were there not to learn how to make money but to acquire the gestures of having inherited it.

Maths for Programmers Course.

Nobody understands anything.

The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media.

Alle gegen alle.

Human dignity is an ideal with remarkably shallow roots.

The 10th-Century Baghdad Cookbook That’s a Poetic Tome to Food.

The text features exhaustive directions for cooking, eating, and being.

Thursday, 4. October 12018
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Web Developer Representation in W3C.

During its annual general member meeting on October 19th, the Fronteers board will propose both to become a member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and to hire Rachel Andrew as our representative in that standards body.

Interface Lovers Interviews.

Perkeep compared.

Perkeep (née Camlistore) is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data in the post-PC era. Data may be files or objects, tweets or 5TB videos, and you can access it via a phone, browser or FUSE filesystem.