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Protesters openly urge Xi Jinping to resign over China Covid curbs
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Chinese takeout fried rice secrets revealed
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Inflation, part 2: Shelter in Canada and the United States
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Bambi to become 'a vicious killing machine' in new horror movie Bambi: The Reckoning
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ooh! Directory
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The Internet Archive just put 565 Palm Pilot apps in your web browser
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Irene Cara, ‘Fame’ and ‘Flashdance’ singer, dies at 63
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Zizipho Poswa’s new ceramics and photography explore hair as a medium for sculpture
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Building an electric guitar from scratch with the pros
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Design collective Andra Formen has created furniture from electric scooters fished out of the canals of Malmö
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‘Strange World’ is a historic bomb for Disney on a weak Thanksgiving box office weekend
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Can you live with a Citroën Ami? We put the dinky EV to the test.
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The toxic history of color
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg joined hundreds of other youth activists to file a lawsuit against the Swedish government over its alleged inaction on climate change
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The world generates so much data that new unit measurements were created to keep up
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The Irish art of lilting
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Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones
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An mRNA–lipid nanoparticle vaccine protects animals from twenty influenza lineages
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Choosing a good e-reader for studying
I started studying again this semester, and have to read a lot of stuff because of it. As we get nearly all our Books as PDF and reading on my notebook or my phone gets tiering quite fast. So I'm...
I started studying again this semester, and have to read a lot of stuff because of it.
As we get nearly all our Books as PDF and reading on my notebook or my phone gets tiering quite fast. So I'm thinking about getting myself an e-reader to make things go easier.So i tried to find some ressources to learn about e-readers, but the internet (or search engines) these days seem to suck.
So maybe my lovely tildes can help.must haves:
can read PDF
needs to make reading this "shitty" two colums pages my PDF have good and easynice to haves:
FOSS
Backlightcan somebody help me out? or do you know about a resource where I can learn about the pro and cons of the different e-readers, I'm starting with close to 0 knowlege as I never thoght I will need one, I generally prefere to read proper books.
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Inside | Official trailer
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An egg drop from space - and the failures along the way
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What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
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What did you do this week (and weekend)?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
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Welsh council bids to print McDonald’s customer car number plates on wrappers
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James Cameron breaks down his most iconic films
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Can anyone recommend a specific type of statistics course?
I would like to find a good Statistics course to do for myself, and also to recommend to others, down the road ... one that specifically focuses on risk, and the discrepancy between actual...
I would like to find a good Statistics course to do for myself, and also to recommend to others, down the road ... one that specifically focuses on risk, and the discrepancy between actual statistical probability vs humans' intuitive sense of risk.
I recall a quote, which The Interwebs informs me right now, came from Albert A. Bartlett ... "The Greatest Shortcoming of the Human Race Is Man’s Inability To Understand the Exponential Function".
Alternately, Mark Twain popularized (but did not originate) the saying "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics".
That's the kind of course I'm looking for, that focuses on questions like how much should we actually worry about supervolcanoes, asteroid strikes, Covid 2.0, WWIII, Trump getting re-elected, etc.
There are two parts to this. One, people often (naturally, human nature, how our brains are wired to handle Risk) obsess about a short list of risks in life that are overblown, or appear to be more of a concern than they actually are.
The other part is, some things have a very small risk of actually happening, but when considered in conjunction with the potential consequences (asteroid strikes, WWIII, global pandemic), are still worthy of aggressive efforts to prevent ... and people often focus on the first element (statistically unlikely) and dismiss or overlook the second piece (devastating consequences).
Anyway, stuff like that ... ideally an actual, hands-on MOOC-type Statistics course, but even a good youtube video or blog article would suffice.
As usual, thanks in advance.
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This video tells the story of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, its design, construction, life, and ultimate demise
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The vegan holiday feast even meat eaters will love
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Wildcat | Official trailer
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Congress passes law banning non-disclosure agreements in sexual harassment cases
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Most Amazon search results are ads
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The Hibernator’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Mozilla bundles its VPN and email/phone Relay services for $7 per month
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The insane world of Chinese shlockbusters. Movies don't have to be good to be fun.
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What creative projects have you been working on?
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on. Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just...
This topic is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for users to discuss creative projects they have been working on.
Projects can be personal, professional, physical, digital, or even just ideas.
If you have any creative projects that you have been working on or want to eventually work on, this is a place for discussing those.
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How to speak honeybee
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When life doesn't give you lemons (three sour Costa Rican citruses) | Weird Fruit Explorer
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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started...
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
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With bi-directional charging, the Volvo EX90 basically works as a power bank, allowing the battery to store electricity that can later be transferred back into an owner's home
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Weekly megathread for news/updates/discussion of Russian invasion of Ukraine - November 24
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic,...
This thread is posted weekly on Thursday - please try to post relevant content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Especially significant updates may warrant a separate topic, but most should be posted here.
If you'd like to help support Ukraine, please visit the official site at https://help.gov.ua/ - an official portal for those who want to provide humanitarian or financial assistance to people of Ukraine, businesses or the government at the times of resistance against the Russian aggression.
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US Navy forced to pay software company for piracy
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The secret skills of US Coast Guard rescue swimmers
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US Food and Drug Administration approves most expensive drug ever, a $3.5 million-per-dose gene therapy for hemophilia B
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Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals
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The nine best Thanksgiving songs I definitely didn’t just make up
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Nancy Pelosi embodied America's gerontocracy problem
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Before his battery behemoths, Rivian’s billionaire founder made an eco sports car
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US Congress to hold hearing after Ticketmaster-Taylor Swift fiasco
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10,000 brains in a basement: The dark and mysterious origins of Denmark’s psychiatric brain collection
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