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http://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/21/usb-c-batteries/

http://www.newstatesman.com/science/2013/08/we-still-don%E2%80%99t-really-know-how-bicycles-work

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-22/the-sting-of-volkswagen-s-slap-across-my-well-moisturized-euro-loving-face

Punctuated equilibrium in the large-scale #evolution of #programming languages http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/12/107/20150249 Clustering groups these into trees

Punctuated equilibrium in the large-scale evolution of programming languages
Sergi Valverde, Ricard V. Solé

Before I Go: A Stanford neurosurgeon’s parting wisdom https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2015/03/12/before-i-go-a-stanford-neurosurgeons-parting-wisdom-about-life-and-time/ Eloquent writing on the passing of time, in one’s final hours

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there are two strategies to cutting the time short, like the tortoise and the hare. The hare moves as fast as possible, hands a blur, instruments clattering, falling to the floor; the skin slips open like a curtain, the skull flap is on the tray before the bone dust settles. But the opening might need to be expanded a centimeter here or there because it’s not optimally placed. The tortoise proceeds deliberately, with no wasted movements, measuring twice, cutting once. No step of the operation needs revisiting; everything proceeds in orderly fashion. If the hare makes too many minor missteps and has to keep adjusting, the tortoise wins. If the tortoise spends too much time planning each step, the hare wins.
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The funny thing about time in the OR, whether you frenetically race or steadily proceed, is that you have no sense of it passing. If boredom is, as Heidegger argued, the awareness of time passing, this is the opposite: The intense focus makes the arms of the clock seem arbitrarily placed. Two hours can feel like a minute.
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But the years did, as promised, fly by. Six years passed in a flash, but then, heading into chief residency, I developed a classic constellation of symptoms — weight loss, fevers, night sweats, unremitting back pain, cough — indicating a diagnosis quickly confirmed: metastatic lung cancer. The gears of time ground down.

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https://www.dropboxforum.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/201281529-Issue-with-files-not-appearing-in-Finder?flash_digest=b581a6c87f0fda12df9f7491989f1e385c8ef212 QT:{{”

Instead of re-launching Finder, an alternative in my case is to manually create a new folder inside the dropbox folder that doesn’t show the new files and then to immediately delete the new (still empty) folder. Upon deletion, the list of files is updated. Very annoying.
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http://www.ashg.org/2015meeting/pages/general.shtml

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About the ASHG 2015 Meeting
The 65th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics will be held at the Baltimore Convention Center (BCC) in Baltimore, Maryland, from Tuesday, October 6 through Saturday, October 10, 2015. The ASHG Annual Meeting is the largest human genetics meeting and exposition in the world.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/opinion/sunday/the-rationality-of-rage.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=0

http://time.com/4026192/nest-outages/

http://www.rsvlts.com/2015/03/31/perfect-timed-military-photos/