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Livestock feed additives for methane mitigation

sciencedirect.com
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The iPad's "Sweet Solution"

macstories.net

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Ancient DNA Shows Stone Age Europeans Voyaged by Sea to Africa

nature.com

Stone Age people might have crossed the Mediterranean on wooden canoes, navigating from island to island...
Stone Age people might have crossed the Mediterranean on wooden canoes, navigating from island to island by sight.Credit: Sheila Terry/Science Photo LibraryThousands of years before Odysseus crossed the ‘wine-dark sea’ in Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa ac...

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Game of Trees

gameoftrees.org
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Artificial Intelligence Learns to Reason

science.org
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Ask HN: Are You Polite to AI?

ycombinator.com
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'Bluey's World': How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became a $2B Juggernaut

hollywoodreporter.com

Tyler Hilton shrugged it off when his 5-year-old daughter, Winnie, became obsessed with a series introduced...
Tyler Hilton shrugged it off when his 5-year-old daughter, Winnie, became obsessed with a series introduced by a nanny. “Uh, OK … a dog family,” he thought, doubting its appeal. But as the musician and actor became unable to escape listening to Bluey’s World in the background of his Canada home, he soon found himsel...
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The Cult of the American Lawn

noemamag.com

When Janet and Jeff Crouch sought to enliven their front yard in suburban Maryland with native...
When Janet and Jeff Crouch sought to enliven their front yard in suburban Maryland with native black-eyed Susans, Joe-Pye weed, asters and coneflowers, they had no inkling that they were doing anything controversial.“It was a garden full of life and color,” Janet told me. “It was beautiful.” Her sister advocated for...
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Show HN: A terminal emulator in pure PHP

github.com
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GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring Back end Engineers

ycombinator.com
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Mathup: Easy MathML authoring tool with a quick to write syntax

mathup.xyz

npm install mathup import mathup from "mathup"; Download one of the following: Module (full, min) Script...
npm install mathup import mathup from "mathup"; Download one of the following: Module (full, min) Script (full, min) Custom element as module (full, min) Custom element as script (full, min) Stylesheet (full; not needed for custom element) …and include the module: <script type="module" src="mathup.js"></script> <lin...
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Chunking Attacks on File Backup Services Using Content-Deﬁned Chunking [pdf]

daemonology.net
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Bigscreen Beyond 2

bigscreenvr.com
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Global population datasets systematically underrepresent rural population

nature.com
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IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol

github.com
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A Synchronization Engine for Everyone

greenvitriol.com

I love storing user data on the client. It helps with privacy, data ownership (which prevents...
I love storing user data on the client. It helps with privacy, data ownership (which prevents enshittification), and allows users to run mundane computations (like indexing) on their devices instead of sharing a sliver of a server's CPU time. Also, if the backend fails, UX degrades like an escalator, not an elevator...
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The Road Not Taken Is Guaranteed Minimum Income

codinghorror.com

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Police-Induced Confessions, 2.0: Risk Factors and Recommendations

apa.org
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Liberapay

liberapay.com
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Legged Locomotion Meets Skateboarding

umich-curly.github.io
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Congestion Pricing Is a Policy Miracle

substack.com

On January 5th 2025, Congestion Pricing went into effect in New York City. It was a...
On January 5th 2025, Congestion Pricing went into effect in New York City. It was a long and winding road (as I detailed here last summer), but Governor Hochul finally made the right decision and allowed the policy to go into effect (albeit at a $9 price point vs. the initial $15). While I was a bit concerned at fir...
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Specializing Python with E-Graphs

vectorfold.studio

We've explored progressively more sophisticated techniques for optimizing numerical computations. We started with basic MLIR concepts,...
We've explored progressively more sophisticated techniques for optimizing numerical computations. We started with basic MLIR concepts, moved through memory management and linear algebra, and then neural network implementations. Each layer has added new capabilities for expressing and optimizing computations. Now we'...
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'The Maverick's Museum' Review: Albert Barnes and the Art of Collecting

wsj.com
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Even the worst mass extinction had its oases

arstechnica.com

Some earlier plants might not have made it through the extinction since rock layers from the...
Some earlier plants might not have made it through the extinction since rock layers from the onset of the End-Permian Mass Extinction showed a decrease in pollen and spores, as well as fewer plant species. Other species were scarce because they had not been as well-preserved as others; the team did not automatically...
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