MIT Technology Review: Ask Ariel Diaz why he’s taking on the college textbook industry and he’ll tell you, “Quaternions.†Quaternions are a number system used for calculating three-dimensional motion, popular in computer graphics. And Diaz needed a crash course to help him with a consulting gig after his online video platform startup, Youcastr, had failed. […]
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Ever wish you could travel around the world, living with just the pack on your back? Well, according to KK, here is a book that will help guide you to where the jobs are! Most of these kind of books are a bunch of hand-waving generalities, or out of date particulars; this one is very
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The next time you feel down, just think of all the money you could make from selling your tears! Hoxton Street Monster Supplies offers a variety of salt, for every kind of tear. Salt Made From Tears combines centuries-old craft with the freshest human tears which are gently boiled, released into shallow crystallisation tanks, then
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Springwise: Placing allergies at the forefront of their business, however, is French restaurant Mon Histoire dans l’assiette, whose menu is entirely free of 11 of the most common allergens, ensuring that most people with a food intolerance of some kind can still have their pick of the restaurant’s selection. Located in Lyon, the eatery runs
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1817 – The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched. 1883 – The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris. 1933 – The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States’ use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold. 1977 –
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How do you build a desk suspended by balloons? A company called Twisted Image finally started production in February. Their job was to fabricate permanent hot air balloons strong enough to carry the weight of the desk. A new type of rubber composite was used to make balloons that were genuinely air-tight and would never
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NY Times: Dan Guilbeault was 3 when doctors discovered a tumor called an optic glioma pressed against his optic nerves. He continued to play the sports he loved — basketball, baseball and football — until he lost most of his sight at 11. Multimedia Now he is 19 and almost completely blind, and his favorite
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