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Roberto Saviano: My life under armed guard | World news | The Guardian

For eight years, the journalist Roberto Saviano has faced constant threat of death for exposing the secrets of the Naples mafia in his book Gomorrah. Is the price of life under armed guard too much for a writer to pay?

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Game Theorists Crack Poker – Scientific American

Heads Up Limit Hold ‘Em has been solved by an adaptive algorithm.

An “essentially unbeatable” algorithm for Texas hold ’em points to strategies for solving real-life problems without having complete information

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Bernie Sanders for President? Why Not. — NYMag

“You frickin’ kidding me? He’s a Commie. Is that even legal, a Communist president?”

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DESIGN IN FILM: THE MODERN HOUSE

DESIGN IN FILM: THE MODERN HOUSE from James Munn on Vimeo.

via DESIGN IN FILM: THE MODERN HOUSE.

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The Heart of the Matter: David Miranda and the Preclusion of Privacy, Part 2

More than anything, if you’re the National Surveillance State right now, you crave a bloody shirt you might wave to try to blow back the tide of thoughtfulness and rationality precipitated by Edward Snowden’s whistleblowing, and by the extremely careful reporting accompanying it thus far.via The Heart of the Matter: David Miranda and the Preclusion of Privacy, Part 2.

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Schneier on Security: Protecting Against Leakers

A public or private organization’s best defense against whistle-blowers is to refrain from doing things it doesn’t want to read about on the front page of the newspaper.

via Schneier on Security: Protecting Against Leakers.

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Monkey Forest, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia

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Scifri Videos: Physics Of The Riderless Bike


Scifri Videos: Physics Of The Riderless Bike

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style in motion: phillip lim’s ‘girls on bikes’ film | velojoy


style in motion: phillip lim’s ‘girls on bikes’ film | velojoy

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Before and After Shots of Joggers



Before and After Shots of Joggers