Sunday, 4. December 12016
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List for life.

The English Wikipedia’s list of lists of lists.

This sounds like when the teacher talks to a Peanut.

A 2D slice of the 6D Calabi-Yau quintic manifold.

Calabi–Yau manifolds are complex manifolds that are generalizations of K3 surfaces in any number of complex dimensions (i.e. any even number of real dimensions). They were originally defined as compact Kähler manifolds with a vanishing first Chern class and a Ricci-flat metric, though many other similar but inequivalent definitions are sometimes used.

Saturday, 3. December 12016
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Craigslist, Wikipedia, and the Abundance Economy.

You’ve heard it before. Maybe you’ve even said it. “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”

“Girls don’t go to the meetings.”

The Woman the Mercury Astronauts Couldn’t Do Without: Katherine Johnson negotiated the dynamics of both race and space.

Battling sexism and dissension, Marie Tharp changed how we understand the Earth.

This lively short animation from the Royal Institution chronicles how the American geologist Marie Tharp’s tireless and brilliant work helping to map the ocean floor during the mid-20th century – which included battling endemic sexism – forced a massive paradigm shift that led to plate tectonics gaining widespread acceptance among scientists.

One by One, ISIS Social Media Experts Are Killed as Result of F.B.I. Program.

How domestication changes species, including the human.

Domestication means replacing a relationship founded on trust with one ‘based on domination’.

Set your meetings, phone calls and emails aside, at least for the next several minutes. That’s because today you’re a bee.

Friday, 2. December 12016
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The Copper Field Effect.

How physics falls apart if the EMdrive works.

Death row: the lawyer who keeps losing.

A single attorney has had more clients sentenced to death in federal court than any other defence lawyer in America. He’s part of a deeply flawed system that is about to get worse