December 2015 Archive
2101.
Evidence that “disfluencies” in speech enhance comprehension (nautil.us)
2102.
Good News, Part 1 (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
2103.
How to download the complete genome for an organism (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2104.
The Smartphone Changed the Refugee Crisis (wired.com)
2105.
Facebook Open Sources Its AI Hardware as It Races Google (wired.com)
2106.
Roads to Rome (roadstorome.moovellab.com)
2107.
Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time? [pdf] (econ.upf.edu)
2108.
A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 1: Don’t Copy That Floppy (filfre.net)
2109.
Mechanical webpage hitcounter (spritesmods.com)
2110.
How Calico, Google-Backed Research Lab for Aging Research, Operates (recode.net)
2111.
Manu Prakash’s Foldscope Revolution: A cheap, portable microscope (newyorker.com)
2112.
The Telnet Song (2004) (wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com)
2113.
Loop: Pool on an Ellipse (loop-the-game.com)
2114.
Register for hack.summit() 2016 – huge virtual conf with 64k+ attendees (hacksummit.org)
2115.
Merry Christmas
2116.
Tree Generator in Minecraft Using Command Blocks (ijaminecraft.com)
2117.
Parse Open Source Hub (parseplatform.github.io)
2118.
The Noise-Arch Archive: Underground cassette tape collection (archive.org)
2119.
Show HN: Morfa – new programming language – general purpose and DSL-friendly (morfalang.org)
2120.
Training the Immune System to Fight Cancer Has 19th-Century Roots (npr.org)
2121.
Startup with Bitcoin in Its DNA Stumbles on Fund-Raising Trail (nytimes.com)
2122.
Mind vs. Brain: Confessions of a Defector (2014) [video] (youtube.com)
2123.
The man who made Bond (intelligentlifemagazine.com)
2124.
Data Sketches – Fast, Approximate Analysis of Big Data for Hadoop and Druid (yahooeng.tumblr.com)
2125.
Drone nearly collides with helicopter, operator gets caught (sfgate.com)
2126.
The rise and rise of headphones (independent.co.uk)
2127.
U.S. Can't Make Weapons Fast Enough to Meet Demand (fortune.com)
2128.
When will librarians start to throw offline literature away? (roger-pearse.com)
2129.
Uber becomes legal in NSW, Australia – taxi owners to be compensated (dailytelegraph.com.au)
2130.
Will China Protect Kim Jong Un from International Justice? (edition.cnn.com)