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How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name
FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver's newly launched website at ESPN, uses statistical analysis — hard numbers — to tell compelling stories about politics, science, economics, lifestyle, and sports.
Inside the Shadowy World of High-Speed Tennis Betting
FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver's newly launched website at ESPN, uses statistical analysis — hard numbers — to tell compelling stories about politics, science, economics, lifestyle, and sports.
Universities can’t fulfill the myth, but they can’t become vocational schools either
Universities come with a mythical mission. But they don't fulfill it.
Healthy eating: The case for eating steak and cream
Shifting the argument The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet. By Nina Teicholz. Simon & Schuster; 479 pages; $27.99. Buy from...

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How to Invent a Person Online - Curtis Wallen - The Atlantic
Is it possible to be truly anonymous in the digital world?

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Anonymous Vows Action Over Shooting Death of Unarmed Teen
Anonymous, the hacktivist network, released a video message Sunday encouraging protests and threatening their own actions against the police who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown and left him for dead in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri.
Why one of cybersecurity’s thought leaders uses a pager instead of a smart phone - The Washington Post
A Q&A with Dan Geer.
Gamasutra: Thomas Henshell's Blog - Why I've Said Goodbye to Mobile in Favor of PC

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Lone Geniuses Are Overrated - The Atlantic
In a very optimistic book published at a very pessimistic moment, Walter Isaacson explains how a group of oddballs and savants collaborated to create the world we live in today.
When Science Fiction Grew Up
How renegade sci-fi writers of the 1960s paved the way for today's blending of literary and genre fiction.
Read Iggy Pop's incredible John Peel lecture
Delivered last night on BBC 6 Music | Gigwise

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Meeting strangers in the street « It's a Tarp
A story about the time I became obsessed with a mobile game that requires you to meet strangers
The Rise of the Professional Cyber Athlete

Keeping Secrets — STANFORD magazine — Medium
Four decades ago, university researchers figured out the key to computer privacy, sparking a battle with the National …

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