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English: The Quadrangle at Harvard University,...English: The Quadrangle at Harvard University, formerly called the Radcliffe Quadrangle or the Harvard Annex dorms, is part of Harvard's undergraduate campus. Français : Le Quadrangle de l'université de Harvard, anciennement appelé Radcliffe Quadrangle ou dortoirs annexe d'Harvard, fait partie du premier cycle de l'université de Harvard (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Henry Moore sculpture "Large Four Piece R...Henry Moore sculpture "Large Four Piece Reclining Figure", Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Pluralism Key to Real Change in Arab World
Originally appeared on Voice of America Three years after the start of political upheaval across the region, transitional governments are struggling to maintain popular support amid rising sectarianism, poverty and violent extremism.   read more
Learn to Code at Harvard for Free
If you've resolve to learn to code this year, one of our favorite Lifehacker U courses is just starting up: Harvard's CS50X. It'll teach you the beginnings of computer programming from the ground up. You can audit it online or even try for a certificate for free. It's happening now, so if you want to get involved, don't wait.
Top Canadian CEOs earn average worker's annual salary by lunchtime today
TORONTO - By the time you finish lunch on Thursday, Canada's top paid CEOs will have already earned the equivalent of your annual salary.

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Working truck built out of ice
A company in Canada is hoping to set a new world record for driving a truck made almost entirely of ice. The unique vehicle was commissioned by Canadi...
Shokalskiy soap opera – rescue ship stuck too, climatologists asks skeptics Coleman & Watts for weather-info
Who could’ve dreamed up the script for this one? If you are following the saga of the climate-scientists stuck in sea-ice-they-think-is-shrinking,  the latest patchy news is that the icepack is so thick and so wide that the Chinese rescue icebreaker is also stuck and has been for a day or so. It can’t send out the helicopter to pick up the scientists on the Russian chartered boat, the Akademik Sho
A Message for a New Year
… here is a “Brin-Classic”   that I’ve updated as my wish for all of you as we embark upon a new era…I hope to start 2014* with an upbeat tone -- something bright and hopeful. For, indeed, I am a hopeful kind of guy. I believe in our future. I have to. I have kids.Moreover, I deeply believe that true hope is engendered not by absolute faith in narrow dogmas, but by curiosity, hard work and devotio
Clump of spiders video goes viral
One man got the fright of his life after poking a 'toupee' that turned out to be a big pile of spiders. Footage taken by a man as he investigated a st...
Best of 2013: US Military Scientists Solve the Fundamental Problem of Viral Marketing 100+ Emerging Technolo... / 1d 

Pluralism Key to Real Change in Arab World
Originally appeared on Voice of America Three years after the start of political upheaval across the region, transitional governments are struggling to maintain popular support amid rising sectarianism, poverty and violent extremism.   read more
Learn to Code at Harvard for Free
If you've resolve to learn to code this year, one of our favorite Lifehacker U courses is just starting up: Harvard's CS50X. It'll teach you the beginnings of computer programming from the ground up. You can audit it online or even try for a certificate for free. It's happening now, so if you want to get involved, don't wait.
Top Canadian CEOs earn average worker's annual salary by lunchtime today
TORONTO - By the time you finish lunch on Thursday, Canada's top paid CEOs will have already earned the equivalent of your annual salary.

Boffins develop dog translation device
The remarkable gadget known as 'No More Woof' can translate a dog's thoughts in to plain English. Developed in Sweden, the device can pick up the EEG ...
Skeptical view makes Australian front page: climate madness, dishonesty, fraud, deception, lies and exploitation says Maurice Newman
The giant boondoggle is coming undone. What makes this article remarkable is the strong language coming from a credible source on the front page of a major national daily. We have crossed another line in the decline and fall of the Great Global Warming Scare.  Maurice Newman is chairman of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council , was Chairman of the ABC, and of the board of the Australian
Best of 2013: How Google Converted Language Translation Into a Problem of Vector Space Mathematics
In September, a team of Google engineers showed how to translate one language into another by finding the linear transformation that maps one to the other.
Sun's magnetic field has flipped upside-down
NASA has announced that the long-awaited reversal of the sun's magnetic poles has finally taken place. The reversal, which takes place every 11 years,...
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