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2013-05-20 Afghan Conservative MPs Defend Islamic Tradition
by opposing a law that bans child marriage and selling women to settle disputes.
2013-05-20 Did Your Vimium Chrome Extension Just Stop Working?
Here is an alternative
2013-05-20 Newton-Raphson in Lisp
The classic root finding algorithm is inherently recursive, and finds a natural expression in lisp.
2013-05-20 Imagez
Here is an image processing library for Clojure that seems quite simple to use.
2013-05-17 Richard Stallman on Norman Finkelstein
He presents us with a poisonous made-up fact.
2013-05-17 Please Add My Journal to Your List
Crusading librarian Jeffrey Beall maintains a list of predatory or fake scholarly journals. Bizarrely, he sometimes gets email from a journal asking that they be added to his list.
2013-05-17 Fibonacci Numbers in the Real World
The best way to calculate Fibonacci numbers on a real computer depends on what you want to know about them.
2013-05-14 A Big Week in Number Theory
Two new stunning results have been proven.
2013-05-09 PyPy Status Blog: PyPy 2.0 — Einstein Sandwich
A new release of the Python JIT compiler, now supporting stackless.
2013-05-09 Google Now on iOS: Broken by Design
After griping from iPhone users since the rollout of Google Now about it not seeing most calendar appointments nor Gmail, a Google representative has finally spoken: this behavior is “expected”.
2013-05-08 Planar Choreographies
Although a general solution to the gravitational N-body problem is not known, there exist a handful of periodic solutions with equal masses. Here is a lovely visualization of some of these.
2013-05-06 Smartphone Photos From Orbit
The three smartphones that are currently in orbit are now taking pictures of the Earth.
2013-05-02 Google Now on iOS: Broken Calendar Reminders
One of the principal functions of the software is to integrate with your calendar appointments, to do cool and useful things, such as warning you to leave now if you want to get to the show on time. But it doesn’t work on the iPhone.
2013-05-01 Death Penalty for Moroccans Who Leave Islam
“Morocco’s High Council of Ulemas (the highest government religious institution headed by the King) has issued a fatwa decreeing the death penalty for Moroccans who leave Islam [...] clearly a response to the establishment of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Morocco – the first public atheist organisation in a country with Islam as the state religion.”
2013-05-01 Wikipedia Antics
Public criticism of the “croudsourced” encyclopedia leads to childish retaliation by its editors.
2013-04-30 The Next Version of Google Glass
... will be a contact lens.
2013-04-30 Out of Helium, Herschel Telescope Ends Mission
“Herschel has exceeded all expectations, providing us with an incredible treasure trove of data that that will keep astronomers busy for many years to come.” Visit the link for beautiful images provided by Herschel.
2013-04-29 Hurricane on Saturn
A giant hurricane within the North pole “hexagon”; see the movie.
2013-04-28 HERE IS TODAY
Perspective about timescales; nicely done.
2013-04-27 Physicist Imprisoned by Iran for Refusing to Help Make Nuclear Weapons
He was grabbed while on a visit from the University of Texas in Austin.
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