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Computing

• Please Don’t Learn to Code
• Please Understand Learning to Code
• How to pay back a programming technical debt
• More Universities Should Shut Down Their CS Programs
• Why you need to work with the machine, not against it
• How to scale a development team
• Software Engineers Will Work One Day for English Majors
• Things I Wished I Learned in Engineering School
• Don’t Hire a Product Manager Without These Key Leadership Skills
• Right kind of ambition
• What it takes to build great machine learning products
• Netflix never used its $1 million algorithm due to engineering costs
• Why Atlassian is to Software as Apple is to Design
• An IDE is not enough
• Interactive Programming

Science & Technology

• Airplane boarding simulation
• How to Set Deadlines for Your Students
• “The Self” in the Future: Will it be Extinguished, by Neuroscience?

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100 years of ships

Perpetual Ocean

Science & Technology

• 500MW from half a gram of hydrogen: The hunt for fusion power
• Physicist uses math to beat traffic ticket
• Jennifer Aniston Neuron
• Titanic: How do you convert a movie to 3D, anyway?
• MIT Scientist Captures 90,000 Hours of Video of his son
• A Man. A Woman. Just Friends?

Computing

• Stephen Wolfram reveals the personal analytics of his life
• 8 Reasons To Choose A Startup Over A Corporate Job
• Four Archetypes Startups Need To Succeed
• 14 Ways to Contribute to Open Source
• Unusual patterns from cloud computing
• An open letter to language designers: Kill your sacred cows.
• Comparison of Open Source Licenses

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Interactive Starry Night

Water droplets orbiting a needle

Photo of the month

Guess the subject of the photograph

Science

• Why haven’t we cured cancer yet?
• Bioconservatives vs. Bioprogressives
• Seeing in ultraviolet
• Collection of talks by Richard Feynman

Computing

• Hackers had full control of NASA’s computers
• How target figured out a teen girl was pregnant before her father did
• Ancient computers in use today
• How Red Hat became a billion dollar business
• What level of programmer are you?
• Deconstruction of a computer worm
• A new approach to Gnome application design
• API design in UI for developers
• How to get experience working with large datasets

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Breathtaking aurora formed by the largest magnetic storm in 10 years

Interesting short film about prejudice against robots

Computing

• Introducing HUD menus for Ubuntu
• Deobfuscating malicious code layer by layer
• The rise of developeronmics

Science

• 47 year old television signals bouncing back to Earth
• Your body wasn’t built to last
• 10 incredibly strange brain disorders

Bonus

• Rocket UI – Build complex UI widgets without coding
• The Noun Project – Vector Art for Everything
• AndroidPttrns – Design/Interaction Patterns
• SuperEmbedBuilder
• Video Game Programming Tutorials
• 30 free programming e-books

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Time lapse video of comet Lovejoy

Vertical progression through the human skull

Image Gallery

Long exposure photo of a candle procession

World’s largest 3d painting

Gale Crater: Landing site for the Curiosity Mars Rover

Larissa Sansour: Palestine in Sci-fi

Inventor of the multi-tabbed browser

Science

• How to build smarter airport terminals
• 10 mega-construction projects that could save the environment
• 10 bodily functions that continue after death
• Out bodies want us to stay fat
• Perils of in-breeding: Debunked
• Special relativity in a nutshell

Computing

• Detecting kinship from a pair of images
• Ascii Ray tracer
• Illustrative guide to cryptographic hashes
• Elevator Algorithms
• Infinite Compilation Problem
• Why do big companies tend to only build with Java

Bonus Links

• Brand Name Generator
• Android Home Screen Gallery

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Canon 5D2 DSLR Time Lapse

Bouncing water droplets

Throwable Ball Panoramic Camera

Whale Fall: After life of a whale

TED Talk: How to spot a liar

Image Gallery

Nikon D300s travel’s to the edge of space

WebGL Terrain Simulation

Design that solves problems for the poor

Science

• Why we can’t drink sea water
• Myths about the mind
• 10 stubborn myths about food
• Bayesian theory of the brain

Computing

• Siri: A verbal command line
• On extroverted programmers
• Piracy is not theft
• A collection of handy Perl one-liners

Bonus

• Sleep Timing

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Image Gallery

Realistic Skin Rendering in WebGL

A rainbow cloud shimmers over Ethiopia

X-ray reveals hidden Goya painting

Science & Technology

• HIV vaccine passes phase one human trials with 90% success rate
• MIT’s ‘Artificial leaf’ makes fuel from sunlight
• Mind-reading technology reconstructs videos from brain
• Corporate Taxes: How Low Can You Go?
• Don’t dumb girls down
• Tallest squat in the world
• Wikileaks Takes Down the Head of Al Jazeera

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Images worth a thousand words

Light bulb that’s been on since 1901

Data-driven enhancement of facial attractiveness

Sitting is killing you

Science & Technology

• Teen brain data could predict pop hits
• Japan scientist synthesizes meat from feces
• What sugar does to your brain and body
• Why is there only one human species
• What would a teaspoonful of neutron star do to you
• Is Faster-Than-Light Travel or Communication Possible
• The rising threat of Super Bacteria
• The Muslim Art of Science

Computing

• Why Google Earth Can’t Show You Israel
• Average color of New York City sky, updated every 5 minutes
• What is BitCoin

Images worth a thousand words

25 Futuristic Abandoned Yugoslavian Monuments

Simon Schubert creates complex scenes in paper using creases

Science & Technology

• Neural Networks Simulate Schizophrenia with Hyper-learning
• Voyager set to enter interstellar space
• Why leaves really fall off trees

Computing

• Web development is just broken
• Programming is not a craft

Interesting Reads

• How China recycles millions of cell phones every year
• How the American Man spends his money
• The Unwritten Laws of Engineering
• The Cognitive Cost to Doing Things
• Superiority – Arthur C. Clarke
• The Nine Billion Names of God – Arthur C. Clarke

Bonus

• Online Encyclopedia of integer sequences
• Future Timeline