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IDF deploys tunnel detectors on Gaza border
Globes.co.il
Defense sources told "Globes" in the past few days that the sensors and advanced algorithms on which the system is based have already provided the IDF with warning of the presence of a tunnel that constituted the infrastructure for a possible future terrorist attack on Israeli territory.
Globes.co.il
Abolish the TSA
It’s time government employees stopped fondling airline passengers and taking their stuff.
Washington Post
It’s time government employees stopped fondling airline passengers and taking their stuff.
Washington Post
Binge Reading Disorder
by Nikkitha Bakshani
The typical American consumes more than 100,000 words a day, and remembers none of them. When everybody’s reading, but nobody’s smarter, what value has the word?
TheMorningNews.org
by Nikkitha Bakshani
The typical American consumes more than 100,000 words a day, and remembers none of them. When everybody’s reading, but nobody’s smarter, what value has the word?
When we scroll, our eyes tend to move in the shape of the letter “F.” Research by Danish web usability consultant Jakob Nielson states that when people read on the internet, their eye movements first move all the way across the page, then only halfway across the page as they scroll further down, until their eyes are barely crossing the page at all. Many websites have been optimized to accommodate this “F” pattern, which, when you think about it, is about half of the actual text.
TheMorningNews.org
Al Qaeda Is Beating the Islamic State
Politico.com
the jihadist group that has won the most territory in the Arab world over the past six months is Al Qaeda
Politico.com
Tech titans’ latest project: Defy death
For centuries, explorers have searched the world for the fountain of youth.
Today’s billionaires believe they can create it, using technology and data.
Washington Post
For centuries, explorers have searched the world for the fountain of youth.
Today’s billionaires believe they can create it, using technology and data.
Acceptance of the point at which intelligence and its inventions can no longer battle the ultimate natural master, death, is a true affirmation of what it means to be human.
SUSAN JACOBY, “Never Say Die”
Washington Post
First images of the UK's beehive-inspired Milan Expo pavilion released
Dezeen.com
Wolfgangbuttress.com
Dezeen.com
Wolfgangbuttress.com
כוכבברוך הבא
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מיר האבן זיך געבענקט
גם אני מצטרף,
ידידך הק' נח בער
עס איז גאר פריידיגע נייעס אז דער געניטער אויג וואס האט א מומחיות אין אפירקראצן גאר אינטערעסאנטע שטיקלעך איז דא צוריק מיט אונז, און וועט בעזר הוי"ה ווייטער מהנה זיין דעם ציבור וואס דורשטן נאך די רייכע סחורה וואס זיין פענע שטעלט אהער און האפנטליך וועט מען אויך האבן די זכי' צו מהנה זיין פון זיין אייגן קוואל וואס דער עולם האט קוים פארזוכט אבער האבן אוודאי באמערקט אז דא רעדט מען פון א ריז בידיעות נרחבות אין די טיפענישן פון אלע פארשטופטע חכמות.
FBI overstated forensic hair matches in nearly all trials before 2000
Washington Post
Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far
Washington Post
Why we want food so much it hurts
BBC.com
cravings are more strongly linked to emotions and external cues that evoke memories ‒ while being hungry can certainly be a factor in starting cravings, they are more psychological than physiological. Being sad, anxious, stressed, bored, or lonely is often the trigger for a craving, Kemps says
BBC.com
The rise and fall of the Bombshell Bandit
For two months last summer an unusual bank robber shocked, mystified and captivated the US. She was a woman, she was short, young and well-dressed, and she held up a string of banks in quick succession. The Bombshell Bandit told Jeff Maysh her story.
BBC.com
For two months last summer an unusual bank robber shocked, mystified and captivated the US. She was a woman, she was short, young and well-dressed, and she held up a string of banks in quick succession. The Bombshell Bandit told Jeff Maysh her story.
BBC.com
הערליך און אינטרעסאנט, זיי ממשיך.
Twilight of One-Hour Photo, America’s Fastest-Fading Business
Bloomberg.com
ביי שומרי שבת אידן וואס דארפן האבן אלבוםס צו קוקן פרייטאג צונאכטס וועט דאס אלעמאל בלייבן.
Bloomberg.com
ביי שומרי שבת אידן וואס דארפן האבן אלבוםס צו קוקן פרייטאג צונאכטס וועט דאס אלעמאל בלייבן.
An Alternative-Medicine Believer’s Journey Back to Science
Wired.com
.When the public believes in magic, it's springtime for the charlatans
Paul Krugman
Just because there are problems with aircraft design, that doesn’t mean magic carpets really fly
Wired.com
.For a while, we used chickens that were bred in Israel. To be kosher birds, they had to have strong legs
A Poultry Sum
Luckypeach.com
מ'קען משוגע ווערן פון בוךווארעמס אוצרות, אבער א לייק געבן איז א שאד ווייל עס ווערט נישט אפרישיעיטעד 😕 .
From Ferguson to Baltimore: The Fruits of Government-Sponsored Segregation
EPI.org
In the last 50 years, the two societies have become even more unequal. Although a relatively small black middle class has been permitted to integrate itself into mainstream America, those left behind are more segregated now than they were in 1968.
EPI.org