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Weekend Links: 7 August 2015
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I really liked this explanation of death and life force by a Zen Master. On the topic of death, this news is old, but I really liked Jimmy Kemmel talking about Cecil the Lion. Quite saddening to read about lion farms in South Africa on which lions are raised with the sole purpose of being hunted
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Weekend Links: July 24 2015
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The Greek crisis has subdued a little, and I think I’ve not seen anything more ludicrous recently. The Greek government seemed to have ruined their case terribly, and this article does a good job in providing a brief summary of how this played out. Germany played a leading role in working through the Greece situation, and
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Weekend Links: 17th July 2015
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Images of Pluto’s surface were all the rage this week, and I must have gone through several links, and still wanted to see more. Perhaps, what was more surprising about this was the cost of the expedition, at less than the cost of an American football stadium, this project costs much less than what I would have
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Weekend Links: July 10 2015
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One of the most interesting things I came across this week was Google’s Deep Dream program. Basically, this is Google’s Image recognition program which they have flipped on its head to now create images. The results are a little freaky right now, but people have already found incredible uses with it and none more incredible than what Turkish
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Weekend Links: July 3 2015
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First up, a very very interesting quiz in the NY Times that you should all try out. Don’t worry about hating numbers or anything else like that. Spend some time on it, very well worth it. Next up, an article on what Greece may be able to do next. Semi related, how 16th century Spain dealt with a
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Weekend Links – May 29 2015
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One of the more interesting news stories of the week was the FIFA arrests, and this NYT article gives a good account on how the Swiss authorities went about doing this. The American indictment of FIFA officials doesn’t look into the alleged corruption in awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, which has caught a lot of
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Bronze age woman has a giraffe in her freezer
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I’ve read a lot of interesting articles and opinions about Modi’s one year, and I am sure a lot of you have also done that so instead of posting links to more – I’ll post an article by my favorite economist on what needs to be done to get to 8.5% growth. Very interesting article
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Warm blooded fish gets tax demands while watching British TV shows
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Let’s start this week with an excellent article from the Economist on the dawn of artificial intelligence. AI is advancing in leaps and bounds, and there are some prominent people who worry that it might lead to the end of us. A sad state of affairs – CAG assesses that the Indian army will run out
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Chinese strippers deliver mammoth to the trunk of your car
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Let’s start this week with a very interesting article about Chinese scientists editing the genomes of human embryos. There has been a lot of debate about whether this should be tried out or not, and it was inevitable that someone did try it out. The current experiment has failed, but it is only a matter of time
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Early weekend links – April 9 2015
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I read a lot of different interesting things this week so even though I’m traveling tonight, I thought a weekend links post is in order. First up, a very interesting article and 12 minute video about a certain invasive python species in Florida. Invasive species are a species of animals not native to a particular
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