The 24 Best Science Fiction Books Of 2015

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/best-science-fiction-books-of-2015#.my1pm09ed5


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Win10 Spy Disabler 1.2 free download - Software reviews, downloads, news, free trials, freeware and full commercial software - Downloadcrew

http://www.downloadcrew.com/article/33968-win10_spy_disabler


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FastStats - Injuries

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm


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Guns vs. Cars (and Drugs) | RealClearPolicy

http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2015/12/21/guns_vs_cars_and_drugs_1500.html


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Movie review: “Spotlight” « Why Evolution Is True

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/12/28/movie-review-spotlight/
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The Incredible Shrinking Sex Chromosome | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151201-the-incredible-shrinking-sex-chromosome/


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The Incredible Shrinking Sex Chromosome | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151201-the-incredible-shrinking-sex-chromosome/


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GOP Debates: The Wild Ideas You Missed While Donald Trump Was Talking - POLITICO Magazine

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/12/republican-debate-wild-ideas-donald-trump-213463

The good news for Republicans, arguably, is that their rhetoric has been so consistently over-the-top that it has started to sound routine; academics call this "shifting the Overton window," the range of what's considered politically acceptable. I've watched all the debates as well as the undercards live, but when I reviewed the transcripts, I was amazed how many radical statements had slipped under my radar. Ted Cruz called for putting the United States back on the gold standard. Marco Rubio accused President Barack Obama of destroying the U.S. military. Huckabee said Bernie Madoff's rip-offs weren't as bad as what the government has done to people on Social Security and Medicare. Lindsey Graham said his administration would monitor all "Islamic websites," not just jihadist ones. I had even forgotten Trump's claim that vaccines caused autism in a 2-year-old girl he knew.

Vaccines do not cause autism. Goldbuggery is crackpot economics. The U.S. military is still by far the strongest in the world. And what the government has done to people on Social Security and Medicare is give them pensions and health care. But none of those statements drew any pushback from the other Republican candidates, or, for that matter, the media moderators. Neither did Ben Carson's assertion that if the United States had set a goal of oil independence within a decade, moderate Arab states would have "turned over Osama bin Laden and anybody else you wanted on a silver platter within two weeks," which is wackadoodle on multiple 

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/12/republican-debate-wild-ideas-donald-trump-213463#ixzz3vXRasNdZ
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GOP Debates: The Wild Ideas You Missed While Donald Trump Was Talking - POLITICO Magazine

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/12/republican-debate-wild-ideas-donald-trump-213463


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The truth about Will Smith’s Concussion and Bennet Omalu.

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2015/12/the_truth_about_will_smith_s_concussion_and_bennet_omalu.html


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Shared from Twitter: Digital Rights Battles in 2015: NSA Reform, Net Neutrality, CISA and Beyond | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Digital Rights Battles in 2015: NSA Reform, Net Neutrality, CISA and Beyond | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Syria’s Humanitarian Crisis: What’s to Be Done? | Center for Strategic and International Studies

http://csis.org/publication/syrias-humanitarian-crisis-whats-be-done


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The Washington Post: Genetic engineering’s new frontier

Genetic engineering's new frontier
The Washington Post

Valentino Gantz and Ethan Bier. (Peggy Peattie/Tribune News Service) By Bradley J. Fikes | December 21 at 5:36 PM Humanity's ability to alter nature, a characteristic of our species for thousands of years, has taken a big step forward. The ability to change the genetics of life to our liking was previously confined to domesticated creatures such as livestock and crops. It now extends throughout much of the biosphere, including ourselves. Genetic engineering on a planetary scale used to be the Read the full story

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The Wall Street Journal: How to Perfect Your Martini Recipe

How to Perfect Your Martini Recipe
The Wall Street Journal

With so many new gins, vodkas and vermouths on the market, you can keep the cocktail classic (and classy) and still find a formula just right for you, from extra dry to dirty and everywhere in between. Read the full story

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Orthorexia nervosa: How becoming obsessed with healthy eating can lead to malnutrition | Health News | Lifestyle | The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/orthorexia-nervosa-how-becoming-obsessed-with-healthy-eating-can-lead-to-malnutrition-10479149.html


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Shared from Twitter: The Most Notable Medical Findings of 2015 - The New Yorker

The Most Notable Medical Findings of 2015 - The New Yorker

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Antibiotic resistance: myths and misunderstandings – Aetiology

http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2015/09/10/antibiotic-resistance-myths-and-misunderstandings/


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Machines that learn like people: Gabor filters

http://www.deepstuff.org/machines-that-learn-like-people/


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Bridging the gap: from biometrics to forensics | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1674/20140254


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Review: Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ Blends Verbiage and Violence - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/25/movies/review-quentin-tarantinos-the-hateful-eight-blends-verbiage-and-violence.html?_r=1


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10 Unusual Facts About the Flu From a Nobel Prize-Winning Pandemics Expert | Mother Jones

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2015/04/10-facts-bird-flu-pandemic-expert-nobel-prize-peter-doherty?9


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The North Korea Regime Change Debate | The Diplomat

http://thediplomat.com/2015/01/the-north-korea-regime-change-debate/

the history of the last hundred years has taught that peace cheaply bought can lead to war dearly waged

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Is Anxiety the Price We Pay For Freedom? | The Nation

http://www.thenation.com/article/fear-itself-2/


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QuietComfort® 25 Acoustic Noise Cancelling® headphones — Apple® devices

https://www.bose.com/products/headphones/over_ear_headphones/quietcomfort-25-acoustic-noise-cancelling-headphones-apple-devices.html#v=qc25_black


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Binge watch

What to binge-watch this holiday season
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/23/entertainment/holiday-binge-watch-feat/index.html


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Flagstaff snow routes

http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5341618.pdf

New study indicates that metformin has the potential to prevent and treat preeclampsia | EurekAlert! Science News

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-12/ehs-nsi122015.php

Preeclampsia affects 5-8% of all pregnant women and is diagnosed by the new onset of high blood pressure and the presence of protein in the urine after 20 weeks of gestation. This condition is a leading cause of maternal death; approximately 100 maternal deaths and 400 perinatal deaths worldwide occur per day. Thus far, the only treatment for preeclampsia is delivery.

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Science in 2016: Separating the hype from the promise

http://www.statnews.com/2015/12/23/2016-science-hype-and-promise/?s_campaign=stat:rss


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Feller power law fits

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jdinardo/lawsofgenius.pdf

Theories of this nature are short-lived because they open no new ways, and new confirmations of the same old thing soon grow boring. But the naive reasoning as such has not been superseded by common sense, and so it may be useful to have an explicit demonstration of how misleading a mere goodness of fit can be." Feller (1940)  

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Top 10 Arizona hikes

Check out this article from azcentral:

Top 10 Arizona hikes

http://www.azcentral.com/story/travel/road-trips/2015/10/29/best-arizona-hikes-roger-naylor/74244862/


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Addiction and golden flow

Vietnam, heroin and the lesson of disrupting any addiction
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/21/health/vietnam-heroin-disrupting-addiction/index.html


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A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: On the Juniper backdoor

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/12/on-juniper-backdoor.html?m=1


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A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: On the Juniper backdoor

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/12/on-juniper-backdoor.html?m=1


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Why being vegetarian can kill more animals than eating meat | Measure of Doubt

http://measureofdoubt.com/2011/06/22/why-a-vegetarian-might-kill-more-animals-than-an-omnivore/


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Neural networks and deep learning

http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/chap1.html


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A world by design – even atheists intuitively think the natural world has a designer

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/epiphenom/2015/10/a-world-by-design-even-atheists-intuitively-think-the-natural-world-has-a-designer.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BhaScienceGroup+%28Blog+-+Epiphenom%29


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46,471: Drug Overdoses Killed More Americans Than Car Crashes or Guns

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/dea-drug-overdoses-kill-more-americans-car-crashes-or-firearms


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DEA Releases New Drug Overdose Death Figures: Guns Safer than Prescription Drugs | Mises Wire

https://mises.org/blog/dea-releases-new-drug-overdose-death-figures-guns-safer-prescription-drugs


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Aircrack-ng

http://www.aircrack-ng.org/


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Study tracks the evolution of pro-creationism laws in the U.S. - LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-evolution-of-creationism-in-schools-20151217-story.html

Evolution can even explain the content changes in unconstitutional anti-evolution religious laws...

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Humans Are Slamming Into Driverless Cars and Exposing a Key Flaw - Bloomberg Business

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-18/humans-are-slamming-into-driverless-cars-and-exposing-a-key-flaw


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Snowflake formulas, dice odds and other satisfying m...

https://aeon.co/videos/snowflake-formulas-dice-odds-and-other-satisfying-maths-of-the-everyday#


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Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6217/78


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Cancer studies clash over mechanisms of malignancy : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/news/cancer-studies-clash-over-mechanisms-of-malignancy-1.19026


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Relatively Interesting 20 Years of Computing: Comparing 1995's tech to 2015's - Relatively Interesting

http://www.relativelyinteresting.com/20-years-computing-comparing-1995s-tech-2015s/


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Happy Hitchmas — Think for Yourself

http://www.hitchmas.com/


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Are These 10 Lies Justified? - The New York Times

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/can-you-justify-these-lies/?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=1


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Shared from Twitter: These Are the 10 Best Restaurants in the World | TIME

These Are the 10 Best Restaurants in the World | TIME

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Digital Photography School: 6 Photoshop Tools Every Newbie Should Learn

6 Photoshop Tools Every Newbie Should Learn
Digital Photography School

In the days before digital imaging, if you truly wanted to elevate your photography to the level of art, you learned how to process your images in the darkroom. You learned dodging, burning, masking, sandwiching negatives, flashing and fogging – all designed to get the most out of your images, and deliver your artistic vision to your viewers. The finished image after Photoshop, using the tools discussed below. With the advent of digital imaging, photographers have a new way to bring their Read the full story

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Business Standard: Sikka supports open innovation

Sikka supports open innovation
Business Standard

Commits $1 billion for OpenAI, a not for profit artificial intelligence (AI) research company Read the full story

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OpenAI

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/


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Mississippi River Music Cruises

http://www.americancruiselines.com/cruises/special-theme-cruises/mississippi-river-music-cruise


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Machine Learning Works Great—Mathematicians Just Don't Know Why | WIRED

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/machine-learning-works-greatmathematicians-just-dont-know-why/?mbid=social_twitter


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You won’t believe what Donald Trump said! (Yes you will. . .) « Why Evolution Is True

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/you-wont-believe-what-donald-trump-said-yes-you-will/

We knew when Trump criticized Cruz it would not be substantive, but we hoped it would be coherent
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The Little-Known Recording Trick That Makes Singers Sound Perfect | Motherboard

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-little-known-recording-trick-that-makes-singers-sound-perfect?utm_source=mbfb


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New Help for Back Pain - WSJ

http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-help-for-back-pain-1448311243?mod=776578645&kwp_0=73877&kwp_4=413784&kwp_1=239544


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City of Sedona : Code Enforcement

http://www.sedonaaz.gov/your-government/departments/community-development/development-services/code-enforcement


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NIHCM - health spending distribution charts

http://www.nihcm.org/health-spending-distribution-charts


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460 foothills

http://www.sedonaaz.gov/home/showdocument?id=28102

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Article 9 DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS

http://www.codepublishing.com/AZ/sedona/html/SedonaLDC/SedonaLDC09.html

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Pro life idiots

"I'm a warrior for the babies. "
-- Robert Lewis Dear

Yes Pro-Life people, this is your murderous idiot.

If you are "pro-life", it is apparently ok to murder people; proving that thugs that spew anti-abortion rhetoric, like @CarlyFiorina, are illiterate, not only literally for obliterating the meaning of what it means to support human life, but scientifically, with no knowledge of human reproductive development, the social impacts of unwanted children, or the basic right of autonomy of women.


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Sam Harris’s Quantum Universe (or, How to Say One Thing While Meaning Another)

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/09/sam-harriss-quantum-universe-or-how-to-say-one-thing-while-meaning-another/


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Shared from Twitter: Very-low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet v. low-fat diet for long-term weight loss: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. - PubMed - NCBI

Very-low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet v. low-fat diet for long-term weight loss: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. - PubMed - NCBI

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Road Scholar National Parks Hub

http://np.roadscholaradventures.org/?so=PEY-D-NP-FB


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Bowen technique - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowen_technique


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See key features of the app and device. | Canary

http://canary.is/how-it-works/?utm_medium=banner&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=Holidays_2015&utm_content=1a


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Choosing an HTTP Status Code — Stop Making It Hard | Racksburg

http://racksburg.com/choosing-an-http-status-code/


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Dr. Amber L. Randall, MD - Flagstaff, AZ - Orthopedic Surgery | Healthgrades.com

http://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-amber-randall-2jxx3


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Must See JavaScript Dev Tools That Put Other Dev Tools to Shame — JavaScript Scene — Medium

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/must-see-javascript-dev-tools-that-put-other-dev-tools-to-shame-aca6d3e3d925?imm_mid=0dd220&cmp=em-web-na-na-newsltr_20151202#.ahfbfs2b5


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Growl Class - A Workshop Demo for Reactive Dogs

https://www.udemy.com/dunbar-growl-class/?utm_term=Growl-Class-Lookalike-Ian-Dunbar-LAL-iOS&utm_medium=udemyads&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=Growl-Class-Growl+Class+-+A-1046920515348012-9ym9B2&utm_campaign=Growl-Class-Mobile&k_clickid=c3d9e39a-f304-49db-80f0-25d9281a43b9_75152792&couponCode=827355b4-bacf-43a2-83e7-c568774a81f7


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The dopamine switch between atheist, believer and fa...

https://aeon.co/essays/the-dopamine-switch-between-atheist-believer-and-fanatic

As 9/11 suggests, the neurological line between the saint and the savage, the creative and the unconscionable, turns out to be razor-thin. Just look at the bounty of evidence showing that families of extraordinarily creative individuals often include members with histories of insanity, sometimes even criminal insanity. Genes that produce brains capable of unusually creative associations or ideas are also more likely to produce (in the same individual or in members of his/her family) brains vulnerable to loose or bizarre associations.

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The dopamine switch between atheist, believer and fa...

https://aeon.co/essays/the-dopamine-switch-between-atheist-believer-and-fanatic


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How Hard Is New York’s Algebra Exam? - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/20/nyregion/algebra-quiz.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0


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Shared from Twitter: How Hard Is New York’s Algebra Exam? - The New York Times

How Hard Is New York's Algebra Exam? - The New York Times

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2015’s Best & Worst Cities for Wallet Wellness | WalletHub®

https://wallethub.com/edu/best-cities-for-wallet-wellness/2862/


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'More Light, Less Heat.' New book debunks myths about gun violence and mental illness | EurekAlert! Science News

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-12/gumc-ll120215.php

In contrast, restricting firearm access even temporarily to people who are at high risk of fatally harming themselves or others, whether they have a mental illness or not, has been demonstrated to decrease both firearm suicide and homicide rates."

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'More Light, Less Heat.' New book debunks myths about gun violence and mental illness | EurekAlert! Science News

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-12/gumc-ll120215.php


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The Believer - Anarchy in the USA

http://www.believermag.com/issues/201511/?read=article_sherman

We're destroying the planet, we're killing people in the third world, we're sucking up all the resources of the earth…" The list goes on, yet somehow we manage to get up, go to work, and pretend like nothing's wrong. "That is a magic trick. And Ted Kaczynski couldn't pull it off. And anybody that can't pull off that trick can't live in this society."
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BBC - Future - The cyborg chess players that can’t be beaten

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151201-the-cyborg-chess-players-that-cant-be-beaten?ocid=global_future_rss


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End the Gun Epidemic in America - The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/05/opinion/end-the-gun-epidemic-in-america.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0


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User Guide — Let's Encrypt 0.2.0.dev0 documentation

https://letsencrypt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/using.html#installation


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In laptop reliability survey, one brand trumps all | ZDNet

In laptop reliability survey, one brand trumps all | ZDNet: "Apple, as in year's past, has the most reliable notebooks by far - a 10 percent breakdown rate in the first 3 years - with Samsung and Gateway distant seconds at 16 percent, and the rest of the industry - including Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba, HP, Dell and Asus, at 18-19 percent."



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Hip exercises

http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/PDFs/Rehab_Hip_3.pdf





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'Daily News' provokes with cover on Calif. shooting: 'God isn't fixing this'

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

'Daily News' provokes with cover on Calif. shooting: 'God isn't fixing this'

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/12/02/ny-daily-news-provokes-cover-calif-shooting-god-isnt-fixing/76703060/


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Standards vs research in energy

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_juice/2015/12/bill_gates_isn_t_a_climate_savior.html


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Combating crime with large-scale face-search technology | MSUToday | Michigan State University

http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2015/combating-crime-with-large-scale-face-search-technology/


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