The other mile-high club
WHEN Elisha Otis stood on a platform at the 1854 World Fair in New York and ordered an axeman to cut the rope used to hoist him aloft, he changed cityscapes for...
Kim Jong-il's Sushi Chef Kenji Fujimoto: Newsmakers: GQ
The sushi chef was leaving his apartment when he noticed the stranger outside. He could tell by the man's suit—black and badly made—that he was North Korean. Right away, the chef was nervous. Even in his midsixties, the chef is a formidable man: He has thick shoulders, a broad chest; the rings on hi...
Hasnain says:
This is a fascinating and captivating read. Really worth reading.
Posted on 2013-06-04T15:58:45+0000
Colonoscopies Explain Why U.S. Leads the World in Health Expenditures
While the American medical system is famous for expensive drugs and heroic care at the end of life, a more significant factor in the nation’s annual health care bill may be the high price tag of ordinary services.
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Posted on 2013-06-01T20:17:47+0000
Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons.
We throw thousands of men in the hole for the books they read, the company they keep, the beliefs they hold. Here's why.
Embedded in Academia : MSCS
Anyway, here’s the thing, folks. The large number of coursework-only MS degrees that we are collectively granting is eroding whatever prestige and credentialing value was previously associated with an MS. To put it bluntly, people have caught on. For example, see this short essay by Aline Lerner (or...
Hasnain says:
"The declining value of the MS in Computer Science"
Posted on 2013-05-29T20:21:48+0000
March 19, 2013: People of ACM: Christos Papadimitriou — Association for Computing Machinery
Christos Papadimitriou is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at University of California, Berkeley. Before joining UC Berkeley in 1996, he taught at Harvard, MIT, Athens Polytechnic, Stanford, and University of California, San Diego. He serves on the Campus Ad...
Chinese DIY Inventions
One visible sign of China's recent economic growth is the rise in prominence of inventors and entrepreneurs
The Girl Who Turned to Bone
Unexpected discoveries in the quest to cure an extraordinary skeletal condition show how medically relevant rare diseases can be.
Unknown Mathematician Proves Surprising Property of Prime Numbers | Wired Science | Wired.com
An unknown mathematician, Yitang Zhang, has revolutionized his field and helped move forward a 2,000-year-old conjecture about prime numbers. His counterintuitive findings show that special pairs of primes, called twin primes, can never be more than 70 million places away from one another.
Turing Drawings
This is an asm.js fork of Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert's original page (see original blog post). The original code interprets the Turing machine; this code compiles it to asm.js. (I also added the Faster/Slower/Pause buttons and the ring around the machine's head visible at slow speeds.)