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Reading articles earlier and ended up at a page What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like. There was another site with audio of people reading short stories in reconstructed proto-indo-european but I wonder if they got the phonology right because many of the words sounded harsh and not natural, like something some overly-theoretical linguists would come…

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I rank collaborative document editing as one of the all-time ground-shaking, ultimate killer apps for electronic information appliances, up there with the word-processor, spreadsheet, and e-mail. But up till now it has been lagging way behind. But that simply can no longer be given that most people use multiple devices: a computer at work, a…

slashdot.net: “Fully Autonomous Flapping-wing MAV Is As Light As 4 Sheets of A4 Paper“

What do you do when the executive branch of your country, and the legislative branch as well, violate the Consitution? What does it mean when the executive and legislative branches of a country violate its constitution? I think it means there’s a problem.

23andMe bows to FDA, drops all medical information from new tests After a partial attempt to get the Food and Drug Administration to ease up on its complaints, the personal genetics company 23andMe took a rather substantial step yesterday: it pulled all medically relevant information from its site, replacing its normal home page with a…

The ruling by the Sacramento County judge prevented the state from selling construction bonds for the project and ordered the California High-Speed Rail Authority to write a new funding plan. He also ordered the authority to have all environmental clearances in place for the first 300 miles of track in the Central Valley. …the three-member…

KEEP THE SAME DESIGN AND USE ANDROID. Are you totally fucking stupid? Lost billions of $$$? Wtf?!?

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