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The World’s Wealthiest Family Gets $4 Million Richer Every Hour From left: Jim Walton, Alice Walton, Jim's wife Lynne McNabb Walton, Rob Walton's wife Melani Lowman Walton and Rob Walton. Photograph: Rick T. Wilking / Stringer The 25 wealthiest dynasties on the planet control $1. The World’s Wealthiest Family Makes $4 Million Every Hour

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AUSTIN, Texas — Boosting academic success does not have to derive from new teachers or curriculum; it can also come from changing students’ attitudes about their abilities through a short online intervention, according to the latest findings from the National Study of Learning Mindsets published A Growth Mindset Intervention Can Change Students' Grades if School Culture

How several former vegans and vegetarians across the country came to see meat as their calling. At Western Daughters Butcher Shoppe in Denver, Kate Kavanaugh trimmed the sinew from a deep-red hunk of beef the size of a bed pillow. The Vegetarians Who Turned Into Butchers - The New York Times

Psychopath. The word conjures up the image of a cold-blooded killer, or perhaps a fiendishly clever but heartless egoist. There’s Ted Bundy, who in the 1970s abducted women, killed them, and had sex with their decomposing bodies. You have more in common with a psychopath than you realise | Aeon Essays

Nodes is your thinking space for exploring ideas with code on the web, powered by JavaScript and NPM. What if programming was about ideas not semicolons? Compose, abstract, generalise. Start from top down or bottom up and refine as you go. With Nodes programming feels like sketching on canvas. Nodes is a new way to create with code

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Coffee and the cosmos at large both approach thermal equilibrium. Pour milk in coffee, and the eddies and tendrils of white soon fade to brown. In half an hour, the drink cools to room temperature. Left for days, the liquid evaporates. The Universal Law That Aims Time’s Arrow | Quanta Magazine

A paper posted online this month has settled a nearly 30-year-old conjecture about the structure of the fundamental building blocks of computer circuits. Mathematician Solves Computer Science Conjecture in Two Pages | Quanta Maga

For the first time, researchers have teleported a qutrit, a tripartite unit of quantum information. "Qutrit" Experiments Are a First in Quantum Teleportation - Scientific Amer

For Fast Company‘s inaugural Best Workplaces for Innovators list, we set out to find companies that empower all employees—not just top executives, scientists, or coders—to create new products, improve operations, and take risks. The 50 best workplaces for innovators

As of June 30, 2019, Backblaze had 110,640 spinning hard drives in our ever-expanding cloud storage ecosystem. Of that number, there were 1,980 boot drives and 108,660 data drives. Hard Drive Reliability in 2019: Failure Rates of 108,461 Drives

The visual below shows the locations of 20% of the photos that were taken on January 25th, 2018 by Planet's satellites (the white circles) which are continuously circling the Earth. The desktop version shows 100% of the photos. Planet | Imaging the entire Earth, every day

Our vision is to improve the efficiency of all cooling systems by harnessing an untapped renewable resource: the sky. Our vision is to improve the efficiency of all cooling systems by harnessing an untapped renewable resource: the sky. SkyCool Systems: The future of cooling

Adults are really good at paying attention only to what you tell them to – but children don’t ignore anything. That difference can actually help children do better than adults in some learning situations, a new study suggests. Warning to adults: Children notice everything

Today, members of the millennial generation are ages 23 to 38. These ought to be prime years of careers taking off and starting families, before joints really begin to ache. Millennial loneliness poll: 22 percent say they have “no friends” - Vox

It’s difficult to measure and quantify what good management actually looks like. But there’s new data that can help. So much depends upon managers. For example, a Gallup study found that at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement scores is driven by who the boss is. What Great Managers Do Daily

What goes through the head of a U.S. president? That is a question that both voters and leaders alike would love to know the answer to. Mapped: The Countries With the Highest Housing Bubble Risks

In a controversial first, a team of researchers have been creating embryos that are part human and part monkey, reports the Spanish daily El País. Scientists are making human-monkey hybrids in China - MIT Technology Review

Earlier this week, while waiting to board an early morning flight from San Francisco to Portland, Oregon, I found myself stranded in Terminal 2, hungry and parched. My search for sustenance led me to a breakfast bar, where I procured a bagel and a small beverage. The total? $11. Why is airport food so expensive?

Nvidia has unveiled some really clever new augmented reality visualization technology that may be key to creating glasses that can actually match human’s visual acuity. Nvidia's Killer AR Tech Doubles Hololens 2's Field of View | Tom's Guide

Updated at 4:05 p.m. ET For the first time, doctors in the U.S. have used the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR to try to treat a patient with a genetic disorder. CRISPR Gene-Editing Tool: 1st Patient With Genetic Disorder Treated In U.S.

It is absolutely the stuff of science fiction: a contact lens that zooms on your command. But scientists at the University of California San Diego have gone ahead and made it a reality. They've created a contact lens, controlled by eye movements, that can zoom in if you blink twice. Scientists create contact lenses that zoom when you blink twice - CNET

OUR STAFF are our most important asset. Many managers have intoned this mantra over the years but plenty of employees have probably thought to themselves that, deep down, executives place a higher value on the machines on the factory floor or cash in the bank. Employee happiness and business success are linked - Bartleby

Google today launched Chrome 76 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. The release includes Adobe Flash blocked by default, Incognito mode detection disabled, multiple PWA improvements, and more developer features. Chrome 76 arrives with Flash blocked by default, detecting Incognito mode d

Lee Harris and his wife Lizanne have won permission to bring a judicial review against Oxford Diocesan Schools Trust (ODST) after arguing that Burford Primary School is acting “unlawfully”. Atheist parents take primary school to court as they say assembly prayers 

I have been writing children’s fiction for more than 10 years now, and still I would hesitate to define it; it is a slippery, various, quicksilver thing. But I do know, with more certainty than I usually feel about anything, what it is not: it is not exclusively for children. Story time: the five children’s books every adult should read | Books | The

As a committed vegan, Saliy Shaker-Elmes' menu choices are limited. So she was pleased to discover this week that her local Tim Hortons now offers its meatless breakfast sandwich with a vegan-friendly topping: a plant-based, eggless omelette. Plant-based eggs join meatless options at Tim Hortons | CBC News

An obscure law from 1917 places the moon under the purview of the Diocese of Orlando, Florida. The Diocese of Orlando, Florida, covers much of the greater central Florida area. It encompasses nine counties, hundreds of cities, nearly 401,000 Catholic residents, and, strangely enough, the moon. Yes, the moon has it's own Catholic Bishop

Whether you are a software engineer, a programmer, a data scientist or a technical manager, these skills will help you stand out. Soft Skills Every Programmer or Data Scientist Should Master

Darius ForouxJul 9 · 5 min readhe first successful person I ever met — truly successful, with accomplishments I admired and ambition I strove to emulate — was an entrepreneur in his forties, a client of mine in the first real business I’d ever started. 10 Bad Habits of Unsuccessful People - Forge

Do you have suggestions for better descriptions? Missing products? Pull requests are welcome on README.md (this file). Note: This list only includes products that are publicly available. google-cloud-4-words/DarkPoster.pdf at master · gregsramblings/google-cloud

TabNine is the all-language autocompleter. It uses machine learning to provide responsive, reliable, and relevant suggestions. Traditional autocompleters suggest one word at a time. TabNine

OOP is considered by many to be the crown jewel of computer science. The ultimate solution to code organization. The end to all our problems. The only true way to write our programs. Bestowed upon us by the one true God of programming himself… Object-Oriented Programming  —  The Trillion Dollar Disaster ?

Have you ever noticed that when you present people with facts that are contrary to their deepest held beliefs they always change their minds? Me neither. In fact, people seem to double down on their beliefs in the teeth of overwhelming evidence against them. How to Convince Someone When Facts Fail - Scientific American

Neuralink — Musk's secretive company that's developing a brain-machine interface — gave a presentation Tuesday that outlined its first steps toward this building this technology, which it's been working on for the past two years. Elon Musk's Neuralink unveils brain-machine interface device - Big Think

Andersen called a local veterinarian to get advice, and was told to cut old socks into T-shirts for Tintin and to protect the open wound. Because the squirrel was so young, he had to be fed kitten milk through a baby bottle. What It’s Really Like Owning a Pet Squirrel — OK Whatever

PARIS — The security employee monitoring the smoke alarm panel at Notre-Dame cathedral was just three days on the job when the red warning light flashed on the evening of April 15: “Feu.” Fire. It was 6:18 on a Monday, the week before Easter. The Rev. Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than people knew. This is how it w

Some of the most intriguing details from the Apollo 11 saga remain largely unknown or poorly understood. Fifty years ago next week, 600 million people around the world watched on live television as Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took those historic first footsteps on the moon. Apollo 11: Eleven things you never knew about NASA's landmark moon mission

Twitter Facebook Name The name of the application (but I bet you knew that). Package name: An identifier for Android applications on the Play Store. It must be unique, so I suggest using the URL of the PWA in reverse order (e.g. com.netguru.wordguru). How to Get a Progressive Web App into the Google Play Store | CSS-Tricks

As the saying goes, what goes up must come down—and, as it turns out, a lot of what goes up comes down into the world’s oceans. Iron particles, released by human industrial activities, are one example of a pollutant that goes into the atmosphere and eventually settles into the sea. Humans May Be Accidentally Geoengineering the Oceans - Scientific American

Here's a to-do list for preventing dementia, new research suggests: Ditch red meat, take a brisk walk to the grocery store, do the Sunday crossword and stick to one glass of wine at dinner. Doing these five things could decrease your risk of Alzheimer's by 60 perce

Carbon fiber composites are incredibly strong for their weight; that’s why they’re key to the newest aircraft designs. However, they’re only strong in one direction, so they’re generally layered or woven in grid patterns before being shaped into structures. First the E-Bike, Next the Flying Car - IEEE Spectrum

Hey, if Nintendo and Sega can do it, then Konami can too. In a surprise E3 announcement, the company is releasing a miniature version of their classic 90s Turbografx-16 console, called the Turbografx-16 mini. More to come... Konami Announces The Turbografx-16 Mini

In 1886, the British archaeologist Arthur Evans came across an ancient stone bearing a curious set of inscriptions in an unknown language. The stone came from the Mediterranean island of Crete, and Evans immediately traveled there to hunt for more evidence. Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languag

The San Luis Valley in southern Colorado still looks much as it did one hundred, or even two hundred, years ago. Blanca Peak, at 14,345 feet the fourth-highest summit in the Rockies, overlooks a vast openness. [Folio] The Last Frontier, by Ted Conover | Harper's Magazine

I used to drink coffee on a daily basis since I was a teenager. Two weeks ago, I stopped cold turkey. Here’s how I did it. What I Learned From Quitting Coffee After 15 Years Of Daily Consumption

We've been restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer1. Now that we have the world's only working AGC, I decided to write some code for it. Trying to mine Bitcoin on this 1960s computer seemed both pointless and anachronistic, so I had to give it a shot. Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer: 10.3 seconds per hash

Helping educators give their students confidence in CS, advance their skills, and prepare them for the future. CS First is a free computer science curriculum that anyone can teach. Code with Google | Google for Education

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