2019-10-28 Mike Seymour and Alvy Ray Smith An interview with Dr. Alvy Ray Smith, a legend in VFX and CGI, who has worked closely with Ed Catmull, George Lucas, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates. fxpodcast #320: Dr. Alvy Ray…
2019-05-11 Matt Levine [A] Reddit user called MoonYachts who claims to have gotten 250x leverage, putting in $4,000 and turning it into a $1,000,000 stock position. You are not supposed to be able to do this; normal stock market games…
2019-10-31 All Things Considered, Jon Hamilton The brain waves generated during deep sleep appear to trigger a cleaning system in the brain that protects it against Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.
2018-07-07 Alexander Lee The world’s most popular fast food has ancient roots, but it was a royal seal of approval that set it on the path to global domination.
2019 Autumn, Heather Mac Donald Failure to enforce basic standards of public behavior has made one of America’s great cities increasingly unlivable.
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2019-08-30 Chris Lee Right light pulse duration and joint orientation enable ceramics to be welded.
2019-09-10 University of Hawaii at Manoa In 1998, two independent teams of astronomers discovered that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating, consistent with the presence of a uniform contribution of Dark Energy. It was not recognized, however, that GEODEs…
2019-08-22 Fernando Chague, Rodrigo De-Losso, Bruno Giovannetti “We show that it is virtually impossible for an individual to day trade for a living, contrary to what course providers claim. We observe all individuals who began to day trade between 2013…
2019-08-30 Jimmy Maher How the Egyptians may have built the Pyramid of Khufu.