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esa.int
GOCE reveals what’s going on deep below Antarctica
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smithsonianmag.com
Bullets That Killed Kennedy Immortalized as Digital Replicas
The originals remain at the National Archives, but new 3-D scans showcase the ballistics in vivid detail
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tedium.co
Over the past 35 years, views on privacy and Caller ID have flipped
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curbed.com
Why California, and the nation, shouldn’t be afraid of density and upzoning
New research suggests even modest densification can add housing without changing neighborhood character.
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nytimes.com
Paul A. Volcker, Fed Chairman Who Waged War on Inflation, Is Dead at 92
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github.com
infostreams/db
Version control for databases: save, restore, and archive snapshots of your database from the command line - infostreams/db
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queue.acm.org
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onezero.medium.com
900,000 Americans Tell Google They Want to Try, Buy, or Quit Heroin Every Year
I use ad data to try to save their lives
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news.avclub.com
Here are the nominees for the 2020 Golden Globe Awards
The nominations for the 77th Golden Globe Awards are in and while we would love to energetically comb through a list of surprises, triumphs, and real risk takers, this year’s round-up is a solid map of the safest routes throughout film and television. Sure, the Hollywood Foreign Press did manage to include a few of our favorites such as Parasite, Pose, and Marriage Story, but overall, there are a few curious trends that are certainly raising a few eyebrows.
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news.avclub.com
This supercut of Hugh Grant stammering in Notting Hill is over 2 minutes long
Long before Hugh Grant complained of the decibel levels in movie theaters, he sported a floppy kind of hairstyle—best known as the curtain cut—that could make any modern eboy envious. He put it to good use in a handful of British romantic comedies—Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually, and Bridget Jones’s Diary, among them. Some might say, however, that Grant (and his hair) peaked in 1997's Notting Hill, in which he fell in love with an A-list celebrity he met at a book store while remaining the world’s most charming dork. And, if you’re among them, you’ll enjoy this new supercut from TIFF, which celebrates the film’s 20th anniversary with a compilation of every time Grant’s character stammers through a verbal stew of uhs, ums, rights, and yeahs.
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esa.int
XMM-Newton’s 20th anniversary in space
XMM-Newton’s 20th anniversary in space
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pv-magazine-usa.com
The wide market of solar panels, Deep sea pumped storage: pvMB 12/9/19
Hello wonderful people, happy Monday and welcome to the pvMB!
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pv-magazine-usa.com
Solar potential in most of the U.S. is greater than it appears
In this op-ed, journalist William Driscoll notes that land across the U.S. generally has at least 70% of the solar potential of land in the desert Southwest, according to data from a federal map. Yet that map needs a different color scheme to better reflect the data, he says.
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pv-magazine-usa.com
NV Energy has more solar coming than 37 states have installed
Nevada regulators have approved the utility's latest integrated resource plan, which includes a gargantuan trio of solar projects and accompanying storage set to come to Clark County.
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pv-magazine-usa.com
Renewable tax incentives tagged as a winnable platform, new poll finds
As a campaign platform, extending renewable energy tax incentives is a vote winner in battleground Congressional districts, regardless of party affiliation, according to a new Global Strategy Group poll.
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pv-magazine-usa.com
MIT sees wind+solar going big, dreams of nuclear, forgets batteries exist
Researchers see wind and solar headed to over 40% of US electricity generation, even without major national policy. However, analysts project that beyond 40%, the intermittent nature of these sources will drive costs higher without nuclear power than with it.
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atlasobscura.com
Farm.One
Underneath the bustling city streets, a hydroponic farm grows hundreds of unique herbs in a high-tech urban oasis.
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atlasobscura.com
History of Diving Museum
A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.
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tv.avclub.com
The 25 best TV shows of 2019
There were bright spots and showstoppers for virtually every day of the year. These are the ones that rose to the top.
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tv.avclub.com
The best TV of 2019: The ballots
The A.V. Club’s list of 2019’s best TV was determined by a voting body made up of staffers and contributors, who each submitted a ranked ballot of their top 15 shows of the year. Each of those ballots, ranked from best to still quite excellent, can be found below.
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news.avclub.com
Everybody's 'fraid of those ghosts in the first trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife
In 1984, Ivan Reitman made one of the best comedies of all time in Ghostbusters. 35 years later, his son, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jason Reitman, is making a sequel, which, in a post-Answer The Call world, is a curiously sore subject. Even if the discourse surrounding that 2016 film still haunts you, there’s plenty to be about Reitman’s new vision to tantalize, from a cast that includes Carrie Coon, Paul Rudd, and Finn Wolfhard to the return of Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Dan Aykroyd, and even Annie Potts in their roles from the first two films. Finally, nearly a year since the project was first announced, we’re getting our first proper look at the movie.
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pv-magazine.com
Oman reveals bidders in 146 MW solar-diesel-storage tender
The state-owned Rural Areas Electricity Company wants to build 11 solar-diesel-storage projects in isolated rural areas. Pre-qualified bidders in the tender include Engie, Canadian Solar, Akuo, Longi, Jinko, GCL, Abengoa, Total and Belectric.
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insights.dice.com
5 Top Cybersecurity and DevOps Trends for 2020
As we head into 2020, it’s clear that nothing much has changed in the cybersecurity community: threats are still very real, and the hunger for experienced
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bloomberg.com
Repo Blowup Was Fueled by Big Banks and Hedge Funds, BIS Says
The September mayhem in the U.S. repo market suggests there’s a structural problem in this vital corner of finance and the incident wasn’t just a temporary hiccup, according to a new analysis from the Bank for International Settlements.
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hbs.edu
The Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap - Working Paper - Harvard Business School
Theold boys’ club refers to the alleged advantage that male employees have over their female counterparts in interacting with powerful men. For example, male employees may schmooze with their managers in ways that female employees cannot. We study this phenomenon using data from a large financial institution. We use an event study analysis of manager rotation to estimate the causal effect of managers’ gender on their employees’ career progression. We find that when male employees are assigned to male managers, they are promoted faster in the following years than they would have been if they were assigned to female managers. Female employees, on the contrary, have the same career progression regardless of the manager’s gender. These differences in career progression cannot be explained by differences in effort or output. This male-to-maleadvantage can explain a third of the gender gap in promotions. Moreover, we providesuggestive evidence that these manager effects are due to socialization between maleemployees and male managers. We show that these manager effects are present only if the employee works in close proximity to the manager. We use survey data to show that, after transitioning to a male manager, male employees spend more time with their managers. Finally, we study a shock to socialization within males, based on the anecdotal evidence that employees who smoke tend to spend more time together. We find that when male employees who smoke switch to male managers who smoke, they spend more of their breaks with their managers and are promoted faster in the following years. Moreover, the effects of these smoking manager switches are similar in timing and magnitude to the effects of the gender manager switches.
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bbc.co.uk
Sanna Marin is to become the world's youngest prime minister at the age of 34
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jefftk.com
Long Bets by Confidence Level
If you want to make a long-term bet one of your options is to register your bet with the Long Now Foundation as a Long Bet. They have some rules, which are roughly: Both parties put up the same amount, at least $200/each. Long Bets effectively runs a donor-advised fund (DAF). When the bet concludes the winner chooses a charity to receive the money. The charity gets the initial stakes, plus half
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sametab.com
Operations and Internal Communication Strategies For Effective CEOs
Learn how effective CEOs, and leaders in general think about internal communication and operations with real-life examples and practical tactics
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greentechmedia.com
Why is Wind + Storage Getting Short Shrift?
Hybrid plants combining wind, solar and batteries can reliably supply electricity during peak-demand hours, the author writes.
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smithsonianmag.com
A Great Wave of Hokusai
The Freer Gallery—home to the largest collection of the popular Japanese artist’s paintings—unveils 120 rarely seen works
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smithsonianmag.com
This Restaurant in Sweden Offers Every Meal Served at the Nobel Banquet Since 1922
At Stadshuskällaren, in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall, diners eat like Nobel Prize winners
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local.theonion.com
Learned Coworker Always Has Heard Good Things About Whatever Piece Of Media Being Discussed
DALLAS—Awestruck by a knowledge base spanning everything from 1960s art house films to the most recent episode of Veronica Mars, employees at SunTech Systems confirmed Monday that coworker Mason George, 31, possesses the preternatural ability to have heard good things about whatever pop culture phenomenon is being discussed at any given time. “Whether it’s a podcast he read something about or a movie a friend of his saw, Mason is always aware that it’s generally well-received,” said colleague Becca Thompson, recalling the dozen or so times George authoritatively delivered secondhand knowledge of superficial approval for some form of media, confirming to all who would listen that the movie, series, album, or artist in question had a lot of great buzz and was something he wished to check out sometime soon. “Even if we’re standing several dozen yards away from him and discussing a season of a TV show or a song, he unfailingly picks up on it and shares his experience of having read a capsule review of the thing we’re chatting about from all the way across the office. We were talking about Ocean’s 8 just last week and out of nowhere we heard him say he had seen a few clips of it online and thought it looked cool. It’s uncanny how anything and everything we’ve ever discussed is something he’s been meaning to watch. I can’t imagine where he finds the time.” George later became conspicuously absent from a lunchtime gathering in the SunTech break room when a discussion of the movie Last Christmas unexpectedly turned towards politics.
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local.theonion.com
Antiques Shop Owner Only Thousands Of Sales Away From Avoiding Bankruptcy
All the latest local coverage from The Onion, America's finest news source.
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greentechmedia.com
Rocky Mountain High: Colorado Governor ‘Bullish on Storage’ as Residential Sets New Record | GTM Squared
Is the U.S. residential storage market surging or overhyped? Here are highlights from GTM’s liveliest Energy Storage Summit yet.
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nytimes.com
The Great Recycling Con
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npr.org
Eat For 10 Hours. Fast For 14. This Daily Habit Prompts Weight Loss, Study Finds
A new study finds time-restricted eating helped overweight people who were at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes to lose about 3% of their body weight, reduce belly fat and feel more energetic.
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worth.com
How to Buy a Private Jet
Despite its reputation as a symbol of extravagance, owning a private plane can help preserve your most precious resource—time. Here’s what you need to know if you’re interested in investing.
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pv-magazine.com
African Development Bank to lend almost €49 million for 208 MW of solar in Burkina Faso
The lender is providing the funds to support the West African country’s solar ambitions under the bank’s Desert to Power program. Several other European organizations have vowed to back the €137 million Yeleen solar project, which will encompass four sites.
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pv-magazine.com
Scientists analyze toxic gases released from burning thin-film, PET-laminated modules
Scientists from China’s State Key Laboratory of Fire Science have analyzed the combustion behavior of flexible PET-laminated PV panels. They found toxic gases including sulfur dioxide, hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen cyanide and a small amount of volatile organic compounds are released when such a PV system burns.
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pv-magazine.com
Taiwanese government proposes solar tariffs of US$0.13-0.19/kWh
The draft feed-in tariff scheme should be approved by the end of the month. Payments for residential solar systems are expected to fall only 0.34% but those for utility scale solar may be reduced by 2.2%. An increase is set to be granted to projects in remote areas and also to those which rely on high-efficiency modules.
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brothers-brick.com
World's first AI-powered LEGO sorting machine built with 10,000 LEGO bricks [Exclusive Feature] | The Brothers Brick
Take a look at what Daniel West accomplished when he decided to create a solution to his sorting burdens with an AI-powered Universal LEGO Sorting Machine!
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spectrum.ieee.org
What Are Your Options for Cognitive Enhancement?
Some technologists use psychedelics to boost creativity and productivity. Here’s how to get similar benefits through more conventional approaches.
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pv-tech.org
NEXTracker’s ‘NX Gemini’ tracker supports up to 120 modules on four 1500-volt strings
NEXTracker has introduced its smart single-axis solar tracker family, 'NX Gemini’, which enables two-module-in-portrait (2P) tracking of either monofacial or bifacial PV modules. The next-generation two-module-in-portrait (2P) tracker is optimized for customer sites with hard soils, challenging terrain, irregular parcel shapes and high-wind requirements.
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pv-tech.org
Auction convened to offload PV generators of bankrupt DC Solar
Over 700 units are set to go under the hammer this week as part of court-ordered liquidation of Californian solar firm, brought down by FBI probe over Ponzi-style fraud allegations.
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pv-tech.org
Major Burkina Faso PV project secures €48.82m ‘Desert to Power’ loan
AfDB's Sahel programme will sponsor the development of four 52MWp plants to help the energy-impoverished West African nation boost capacity by 15%.
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pv-tech.org
India’s SECI in fresh solar auction push as green energy goal beckons
Launch of solar and solar-plus-wind tenders totalling 2.4GW comes as some analysts question country can reach 175GW-by-2022 renewables aim.
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pv-tech.org
Chint switches on the Netherlands’ self-styled largest solar project
Delivering 103MWp Midden-Groningen within eight months involved installing 315,000 panels, setting up biodiversity-friendly areas and linking the plant directly to the Dutch grid.
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schneier.com
Failure Modes in Machine Learning - Schneier on Security
Interesting taxonomy of machine-learning failures (pdf) that encompasses both mistakes and attacks, or -- in their words -- intentional and unintentional failure modes. It's a good basis for threat modeling....
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reneweconomy.com.au
All eyes on Madrid, but they should be on China’s next 5-year energy plan
The climate talks in Madrid simply highlight how important China’s next electricity plan is for the world, for China and for Australia.
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pv-magazine.com
Chint Solar connects 103 MW of solar to Dutch grid
A PV project by the Chinese company started generating electricity in late October, the group said. German subsidiary Astronergy supplied the solar panels.
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