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What a Dad Cooks for His Two Very Hungry Boys in a Week The Week My Husband Left And My House Was Burgled I Secured A Grant To Begin The Project That Became BRCA1 obrovské vlny (h/t Diana Oliveira, ktorá je kúsok odtiaľ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkBVBlcp3LA gömböc alebo prečo má korytnačka taký tvar, aký má first round – 10 years companies with a…
ďalej...On social media, privacy is no longer a personal choice But the results do show that information from your friends on a social network could accurately predict your marital status, location, sexual orientation or political affiliation — information that you may not want anyone to know, let alone in a social network you’re not even on. kontrast (fotky prezidentov Obamu…
ďalej...Včera vo veku 40 rokov na rakovinu zomrela Maryam Mirzakhani, matematička iránskeho pôvodu, jediná žena, ktorá dostala Fieldsovu medailu (keď sa dávali naposledy, v roku 2014). Mala českého manžela a malú dcéru. To her dismay, Mirzakhani did poorly in her mathematics class that year. Her math teacher didn’t think she was particularly talented, which undermined her confidence. At that age, “it’s…
ďalej...Greetings, E.T. (Please Don’t Murder Us.) The anti-METI movement is predicated on a grim statistical likelihood: If we do ever manage to make contact with another intelligent life-form, then almost by definition, our new pen pals will be far more advanced than we are. The best way to understand this is to consider, on a percentage basis, just how young…
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A love story – úžasné When we encounter a mother doing too many things perfectly, smiling as if it were all so easy, so natural, we should feel a civic responsibility to slap her hard across the face and scream the word “Stop!” so many times that the woman begins to chant or whimper the word along with us. Once…
ďalej...Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria The stations—which didn’t so much scan as photograph books—had been custom-built by Google from the sheet metal up. Each one could digitize books at a rate of 1,000 pages per hour. The book would lie in a specially designed motorized cradle that would adjust to the spine, locking it in place. Above, there was…
ďalej...our mothers as we never saw them The old photos of her are even more compelling than the stories because they’re a historical record, carrying the weight of fact, even if the truth there is slippery: the trick of an image, and so much left outside the frame. These photos serve as a visual accompaniment to the myths. Because any…
ďalej...superbabies don’t cry by eight months Fiona developed a love for clapping. At nine months she had her first grand mal seizure. At eleven months she rolled from front to back. At one year old she weighed twelve pounds. During that first year, her syndrome revealed itself to be simultaneously life-altering and, in some strange way, just fine. A new…
ďalej...Minulý týždeň sme tu mali celoštátne kolo matematickej olympiády. Dve doobedia počítali, poobede ich bolo treba niekam zobrať. Výlet mi zatrhli (lebo, že vraj sa nedá spoľahnúť na počasie a nechceme improvizovať na poslednú chvíľu), tak som na jedno poobedie vybavila prehliadku mesta (hore na Burianovu vežu, dole do katakomb), ale to olympionikov vôbec nenadchlo. Kolega na druhé poobedie vybavil…
ďalej...výborné video delenia buniek (time lapse video of the cells in a tadpole egg dividing over a period of 33 hours) woman facts Once women who lived unconventional lives were seized as witches and burned. Now people just say to them, “You look tired.” – – – Large numbers of women can be caught by baiting a trap with a…
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