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The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought

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The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought Silicon Valley CEOs are supposed to be sacrosanct. So how did it all go wrong at Uber?

How Moving Images Work, Explained With A Slow Motion Camera And A Macro Lens

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How Moving Images Work, Explained With A Slow Motion Camera And A Macro Lens Those Slow Mo Guys are at it again, this time with an informative video on how our televisions and displays are able to fool our eyes into seeing motion and color with nothing more than three colors and a single line. January 18, 2018 at 05:52PM

ununennium: Word of the day for January 19, 2018

ununennium , n : The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with an atomic number of 119 (symbol Uue).

How Moving Images Work, Explained With A Slow Motion Camera And A Macro Lens

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How Moving Images Work, Explained With A Slow Motion Camera And A Macro Lens

Article of the day for January 19, 2018

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Article of the day is Sonic Spinball. Check it out: http://ift.tt/1oWeX6W

ununennium: Word of the day for January 19, 2018

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Word of the day is ununennium : The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with an atomic number of 119 (symbol Uue).

Picture of the day for January 19, 2018

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Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris), east part of Utö, Haninge Municipality, Stockholm archipelago, Sweden. In the background the Baltic Sea, with some sea smoke..

Article of the day for January 19, 2018

The Article of the day for January 19, 2018 is Sonic Spinball . Sonic Spinball is a pinball video game developed by the Sega Technical Institute and published by Sega. It was originally released for the Mega Drive/Genesis in North America and Europe in November 1993 and in Japan the following month. It was later ported to the Game Gear and Master System in 1994 and 1995 respectively. The game has been re-released on eleven different consoles and has been included in Genesis-related compilations. The player controls Sonic the Hedgehog, who is manipulated like a pinball in various machine-like environments for most of the game, while the series antagonist Doctor Robotnik tries to enslave the population on the planet Mobius. Sonic Spinball was commissioned by Sega when it became clear that a new Sonic the Hedgehog game could not be completed in time for the 1993 holiday season, since the majority of their staff were developing Sonic the Hedgehog 3. The game was hastily developed, with mo

The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought

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The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought

Picture of the day for January 19, 2018

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Picture of the day on January 19, 2018: Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris), east part of Utö, Haninge Municipality, Stockholm archipelago, Sweden. In the background the Baltic Sea, with some sea smoke.

From Nazi Germany to Australia: The Incredible True Story of History’s Longest Kayak Journey

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From Nazi Germany to Australia: The Incredible True Story of History’s Longest Kayak Journey This is the story of Oscar Speck’s voyage, a seven-and-a-half-year adventure nearly lost to history.

From Nazi Germany to Australia: The Incredible True Story of History’s Longest Kayak Journey

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From Nazi Germany to Australia: The Incredible True Story of History’s Longest Kayak Journey