Precision medicine fans were treated this year to two must-read popular science books – one you’ve probably heard of, written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning physician-author, the other, less familiar, produced by a self-published biotech writer who grew up “shoveling pig sh-t” on a farm in Wisconsin.
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By QUENTIN HARDY
A $2.5 billion data center transforms the learning experiences of a rural community’s students in a state where schools are struggling.
Published: December 10, 2016 at 06:00PM
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Heroes III build: Conflux!
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Behold A Robot Hand With A Soft Touch
Using light-conductive materials, researchers have built a robot hand that can sense shapes and textures. Soft robotics holds promise for better prosthetics or machines with a more “human” touch.
December 11, 2016 at 06:37PM
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More and more people are increasingly frustrated with Facebook for different reasons. I am one of them. I decided to find out how easy it would be take back my attention from the newsfeed. Here’s how you can too.
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You should never bet against Amazon, unless you’re a masochist, which I am not. So, I’m going to predict that the newly-announced Amazon Go cashierless convenience stores will be wildly successful when they are rolled out, beginning with the first store in Seattle in early 2017. I also expect that […]
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Technology alone cannot solve the fake news problem – only through teaching society to be data and information literate can we improve citizens’ ability to interpret the world around them
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The Walking Dead could theoretically go on forever, but given its source material and the interest of the audience, how much longer will the show last at this point?
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Now I see why the MC community is getting a bad rap
Asked in server chat if and how I can claim a plot next to mine so I can extend and connect, random griefer TPs next to me, zooms over to the plot I wanted and claims it before I know what's going on. Builds a line of 10 cobble blocks, goes afk.
Server staff refuses to do anything about it, general server population tells me this is perfectly acceptable and happens all the time on many creative servers.
I downloaded my plot and am not too sure whether I will even be going back on the server at all if I can dump the schematic in a SP world. I'm too old to have to deal with 13-year-olds with an attitude over the internet.
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