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BOSS: Dark Energy and the Geometry of Space The SDSS-III’s Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) will map the spatial distribution of luminous red galaxies (LRGs) and quasars to detect the characteristic scale imprinted by baryon acoustic oscillations in the early universe. Sound waves that propagate in the early universe, like spreading ripples in a pond, […]

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Matt Cutts on How Google Tests Its Algorithms Jennifer Slegg, April 3, 2014 5 Comments • SEO Evolution: Sell, Discover, Deliver & Report on Highly Converting Keywords by Krista LaRiviere, gShift Have you ever been curious about how Google decides which algorithm is better than another, when they’re pushing out one of the many tweaks […]

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THE RECKONING Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of NationsJacob Soll Basic Books, April 2014 Whether building a road or fighting a war, leaders from ancient Mesopotamia to the present have relied on financial accounting to track their state’s assets and guide its policies. Basic accounting tools such as auditing and double-entry bookkeeping form […]

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About History & Mission Donald Windham & Sandy Campbell Archive at Beinecke Selection Process FAQ Prizewinners News Read more about each author below 2014 Prizewinners Fiction Nadeem Aslam Pakistan/United Kingdom Drama Kia Corthron United States Fiction Jim Crace United Kingdom Fiction Aminatta Forna United Kingdom/Sierra Leone Drama Sam Holcroft united kingdom Drama Noëlle Janaczewska australia […]

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Welcome back, SiDevilIam  Innovation: The Government Was Crucial After All Jeff Madrick April 24, 2014 Issue The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato Anthem, 237 pp., $19.95 (paper) Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, Speculation and the State by William H. Janeway Cambridge University Press, 329 pp., $35.99 Andrew […]

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Welcome back, SiDevilIam  Iran: A New Deal?   Christopher de Bellaigue April 24, 2014 Issue Jason DeCrow/AP Images   Secretary of State John Kerry (left) and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (right) at a meeting about Iran’s nuclear activities, United Nations headquarters, New York City, September 2013 On a recent trip to Tehran I […]

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Technology Common Web Encryption Tool Is Flawed, Researchers Say Bug, Nicknamed Heartbleed, Potentially Exposes Masses of Sensitive Data By Danny Yadron connect Updated April 8, 2014 7:29 p.m. ET An encryption tool used by a large chunk of the Internet is flawed, potentially exposing reams of data meant to be hidden from prying eyes. The […]

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Politics|White House Memo For Obama Presidency, Lyndon Johnson Looms Large By PETER BAKERAPRIL 8, 2014   Photo   President Lyndon B. Johnson delivering a speech in the East Room of the White House in 1964 during the signing of the Civil Rights Act. Credit Keystone/Getty Images WASHINGTON — Two days before joining other presidents in […]

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GOP solution to ‘war on women’: Women McMorris Rodgers is the only GOP woman in leadership in either chamber. | Getty By ANNA PALMER | 4/7/14 8:33 PM EDT Updated: 4/8/14 7:33 PM EDT Republicans say the Democrats’ “war on women” line is fake. But their fear of it is real. More than a dozen […]

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Business Day Sliver of Medicare Doctors Get Big Share of Payouts By REED ABELSON and SARAH COHENAPRIL 9, 2014 A tiny fraction of the 880,000 doctors and other health care providers who take Medicare accounted for nearly a quarter of the roughly $77 billion paid out to them under the federal program, receiving millions of […]

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Education Best, Brightest and Rejected: Elite Colleges Turn Away Up to 95% By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑAAPRIL 8, 2014   Photo   Stanford University accepted 5 percent of applicants in the latest admissions season, a new low among elite colleges. Credit Thor Swift for The New York Times Enrollment at American colleges is sliding, but competition for […]

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The Opinion Pages|Editorial After Rwanda’s Genocide By THE EDITORIAL BOARDAPRIL 8, 2014  On Monday, Rwanda commemorated the victims of a genocide unleashed 20 years ago by Hutu extremists in power then. More than 800,000 people, mostly Tutsi men, women and children, were systematically hunted down and brutally murdered over a period of just 100 days. […]

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Tech / SciScience   ‘Cosmic Diamond,’ Caused By The Alignment Of A Star And A Planetary Nebula, Shines In New Image [PHOTO] By Charles Poladian on April 09 2014 12:50 PM Thanks to a perfect alignment, the planetary nebula known as Abell 33 is adorned with new cosmic bling. On Wednesday, the European Southern Observatory […]

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Hi, bakulaji! Brandeis University’s double standard on honorary degrees By David Bernstein April 9 at 10:21 am A few years back, Brandeis University awarded an honorary degree to Tony Kushner. This was controversial because Brandeis is a Jewish-sponsored (but non-sectarian) university that has historically had very close ties to Israel. Indeed, the university’s namesake, Justice […]

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The True Subject of Errol Morris’s Donald Rumsfeld Doc: Smugness With Robert McNamara in The Fog of War, the filmmaker captured a painful redemption bid. But the star of The Unknown Known doesn’t think he needs redemption at all. Peter Osnos Apr 9 2014, 8:16 AM ET AP The two most controversial defense secretaries of modern times […]

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MIT and Harvard create new, lightsaber-like state of matter: Photonic molecules By Sebastian Anthony on September 26, 2013 at 11:30 am 7 Comments Share This article [googlemaps https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.extremetech.com%2Fextreme%2F167439-mit-and-harvard-create-new-lightsaber-like-state-of-matter-photonic-molecules&locale=&layout=box_count&action=like&width=50&height=60&colorscheme=light" width="300" height="150" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"> 9 inShare The awesomely named Center for Ultracold Atoms, a joint Harvard and MIT venture, has created a new state of matter: photonic […]

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Israeli archaeologists unearth ‘beautiful face’ from when pharaohs ruled Daniel Estrin Jerusalem — The Associated Press Published Wednesday, Apr. 09 2014, 1:37 PM EDT Last updated Wednesday, Apr. 09 2014, 2:16 PM EDT Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a rare sarcophagus featuring a slender face and a scarab ring inscribed with the name of an Egyptian pharaoh, Israel’s […]

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Heard on the Street Comcast, Time Warner Cable Use Wide-Angle Deal Lens By Miriam Gottfried connect April 9, 2014 5:09 p.m. ET Bloomberg News Comcast CMCSA +1.92% is trying to thread a rather thin needle. Representatives from the cable operator and its proposed merger target Time Warner Cable TWC +1.78% testified before the Senate Judiciary […]

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9 April 2014 Last updated at 20:33 ET ‘RoboClam’ could anchor submarines By James Morgan Science reporter, BBC News RoboClam was inspired by nature – the razor clam is ‘the Ferrari of diggers’ Continue reading the main story Related Stories Nature’s copycats flood the world Smart materials to aid camouflage The real Spider-Man: Stickiness goes […]

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U.S. News Homeless Lose a Longtime Last Resort: Living in a Car Cities in Silicon Valley, Elsewhere Crack Down on Vehicle Dwellers Driven Out of Apartments by Rents 167 Comments   By Zusha Elinson connect April 8, 2014 9:24 p.m. ET Fred Smith, in his motor home last month in Palo Alto, Calif., found himself […]