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description: Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

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description: “The more powerful you are,” says the action icon, author of a new self-help book, “the more power you have in giving back.”

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description: Vegetable stock: my secret lover After learning how to season food correctly, homemade stock is the single best thing anyone can do for his cooking. A stock is a liquid extraction of complementary…

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description: Since I moved out of the startup world I’ve exclusively worked on small projects. Niche, simple tools packed with love and attention to detail. I’ve written …

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description: Back in August, The New York Times ran a profile of Morris Chang, the founder of TSMC. It’s hard to overstate the role that this Taiwan-based semiconductor company plays in the industry. If you search for articles about it, you’ll see headlines like TSMC: The Most Important Tech Company You Never Heard Of and TSMC:…

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description: Here’s a a line I liked from episode 461 of Todd Conklin’s PreAccident Investigation Podcast. At around the 8:25 mark, Conklin says: ….accidents, in fact, aren’t preventable. Accidents manage you, so what you really manage is the capacity for the organization to fail safely. The phrasing “accidents manage you” is great, because it drives home…

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description: The future of Offpunk: UNIX command-line heaven and packaging hell écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.

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description: <p>The mystery of the identity of the second world war soldier who returned to his native Hungary five weeks ago after 55 years of captivity in Russia appears to have been solved.</p>

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