Monday, June 1, 2015

Proceed With Caution

This Is The Story Of The Hamburger, Shia LaBeouf Believes In You, And Other News, How Is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested?, The Grim History Of A Sunken Slave Ship, VIDEO: Watching 11,000 Marbles Go Down A Marble Run At The Same Time Is Immensely Satisfying, Let's Just Re-Engineer The Climate
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Monday, June 1, 2015
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A MEATY STORY
This Is The Story Of The Hamburger
grubstreet.com
Its rise from a lowly patty of chopped meat to the aristocracy of foods; its charismatic and delicious descendants; the arguments it inspires­ — over ethics and blends and tastes; and Silicon Valley's attempt to replace it with a meat that is not meat at all.
WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND
Shia LaBeouf Believes In You, And Other News
digg.com
Shia LaBeouf's psycho pep talk, Korea's gargantuan shipyard, and Eva Braun's traveling underpants.
VERY CAREFULLY
How Is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested?
motherboard.vice.com
Your average scripter also isn't writing software for jet airliners or nuclear power plants or robotic surgeons. But somebody is — and the odds are pretty good that your life has been in their hands very recently. How do you know they're not a complete hack? Well, you don't really. Which raises the question: How is this sort of code tested?
DEPTHS OF HISTORY
The Grim History Of A Sunken Slave Ship
nytimes.com
The story of the São José, like the slave trade itself, spanned continents and oceans, from fishing villages in Africa to sheikhdoms where powerful chiefs plotted with European traders to traffic in human beings to work on plantations in the New World
THIS GUY'S LOST HIS MARBLES
VIDEO: Watching 11,000 Marbles Go Down A Marble Run At The Same Time Is Immensely Satisfying
digg.com
Sometimes less is more. With marbles, though, more is definitely more.
CLIMATE CHANGERS
Let's Just Re-Engineer The Climate
medium.com
Well, maybe not. Geo-engineering isn't the easy and painless fix for climate change that many proponents say it is.
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SUN'S OUT, TONGUES OUT
Image: A participant of dog race competes with his sled dogs during the Baltic cup sled dog race competition in a park outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, May 31, 2015.
A participant of dog race competes with his sled dogs during the Baltic cup sled dog race competition in a park outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, May 31, 2015. Credit: AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky
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