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Little Grown-ups and Their Progeny
On the evening of July 24, 1899, newsboys were pouring into the Lower East Side from every directionuptown, the Battery, the Brooklyn Bridge. Decades later, these kids would be enshrined in…
AUTHOR:Jennifer Senior
SOURCE:New York Magazine
PUBLISHED: March 31, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (780 words)
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Humans | Science News
With drug firms in retreat, the pipeline for new psychiatric medications dries up With drug firms in retreat, the pipeline for new psychiatric medications dries up By Laura Sanders Web edition:…
SOURCE:www.sciencenews.org
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2797 words)
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An Overview of Cryptography
1. INTRODUCTION Does increased security provide comfort to paranoid people? Or does security provide some very basic protections that we are naive to believe that we don't need? During this time when…
SOURCE:www.garykessler.net
LENGTH: 108 minutes (27065 words)
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Google's Eric Schmidt: drone wars, virtual kidnaps and privacy for kids
Eric Schmidt told an audience at Cambridge University that although cyber-crime and terroism would be growing problems, connectivity in countries such as North Korea would be of great benefit to…
AUTHOR:Charles Arthur
SOURCE:www.guardian.co.uk
PUBLISHED: Jan. 29, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1435 words)
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Cocktail Party Physics, Scientific American Blog Network
This weekend I’ll be at Science Online 2013 in North Carolina, moderating a panel with io9′s Annalee Newitz on science and science fiction. It’s a topic near and dear to both our…
AUTHOR:Jennifer Ouellette |
SOURCE:blogs.scientificamerican.com
PUBLISHED: Jan. 27, 2013
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2430 words)
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The ice inferno
Antarctica is a place only an intellectual could love. The further one moves into the interior, away from the coast and storms and marine life that tenuously valence with the Earth, the more dominant…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2610 words)
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Leonard Cohen's hallelujah moment
It was a cold grey morning and starting to rain when Leonard Cohen walked down Hampstead High Street, clutching a suitcase and an address. It was just before Christmas 1959 and the windows of the…
AUTHOR:Sylvie Simmons
SOURCE:www.telegraph.co.uk
PUBLISHED: Oct. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4801 words)
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Famous Ghosts in American History
Portrait of Theodosia Burr On December 31, 1812, the beautiful and vivacious Theodosia Burr, wife of wealthy Governor Joseph Alston of South Carolina , left her husband's plantation and sailed north…
SOURCE:www.history.com
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2332 words)
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State of the Species
By Charles C. Mann THE PROBLEM WITH environmentalists, Lynn Margulis used to say, is that they think conservation has something to do with biological reality. A researcher who specialized in cells…
SOURCE:Orion Magazine
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8130 words)
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