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YouTube: Michio Kaku: Consciousness Can be Quantified

Michio Kaku: Consciousness Can be Quantified Big Think

First potentially habitable Earth-sized planet confirmed: It may have liquid water

First potentially habitable Earth-sized planet confirmed: It may have liquid water Huzzah for Kepler-186f!

What Animal Gets The Most REM Sleep?

What Animal Gets The Most REM Sleep? ‘Platypuses are unique in that they’re part of a group of mammals called “monotremes,” which diverged from the rest of mammals very early in the evolution of the mammalian line. Because their REM is so similar to our own, Siegel’s findings “suggest that the immediate reptilian ancestors of […]

Why wOBA Works

Why wOBA Works A primer on the wOBA and linear weights baseball stats.

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@stewardsfolly @kenarneson Not exactly new news! In Sporting News April 10 – with great Barnett interview ICYMI: http://t.co/fOxg5SfYLn — Rich Campbell (@SprtsMktgProf) April 16, 2014 via http://twitter.com/SprtsMktgProf

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Geek productivity at work : how non-geeks thinks it works pic.twitter.com/DgUlhIh5nB — Florent DUBOST (@fooragnak) April 14, 2014 via http://twitter.com/fooragnak

If a nuclear bomb exploded in downtown Washington, what should you do?

If a nuclear bomb exploded in downtown Washington, what should you do?

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Blood Moon full lunar eclipse just now over S. Calif. That's Mars "nearby" at 57 million miles beyond. pic.twitter.com/4UlhFa70ka — Andrew Malcolm (@AHMalcolm) April 15, 2014 via http://twitter.com/AHMalcolm

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@AnswerDave When Bartolo leaves you a pair of pants as a gift you must accept them. — Omar G (@omar01) April 15, 2014 via http://twitter.com/omar01

YouTube: Тщетность бытия \ The futility of existence

Тщетность бытия \ The futility of existence Roman Prag

Escape from Cuba: Yasiel Puig’s Untold Journey to the Dodgers

Escape from Cuba: Yasiel Puig’s Untold Journey to the Dodgers “If they didn’t receive the money, they were saying that at any moment they might give him a machetazo”—a whack with a machete—“chop off an arm, a finger, whatever, and he would never play baseball again, not for anyone.”

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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." —Lao Tzu — johnmaeda (@johnmaeda) April 12, 2014 via http://twitter.com/johnmaeda

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Just some random people being awesome. pic.twitter.com/2rbXELXucz — Alex Snow (@Geodude96) April 12, 2014 via http://twitter.com/Geodude96

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Replay injects bureaucracy into a baseball game. It's fucking horrible. You guys, I AM a bureaucrat; I know what I'm talking about. — El Capitán (@pbsenerchia) April 13, 2014 via http://twitter.com/pbsenerchia

YouTube: “Batman: Strange Days” – Bruce Timm’s Batman 75th Anniversary Short (Official)

“Batman: Strange Days” – Bruce Timm’s Batman 75th Anniversary Short (Official) DC Entertainment

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@kenarneson @enosarris @brooksbaseball Here's the Bees' bullpen from a few nights ago, and the padded concrete wall. pic.twitter.com/jpjmnIve4O — Mike Headley (@LnStrngr) April 11, 2014 via http://twitter.com/LnStrngr

Jim’s Blog: Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding

Jim’s Blog: Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding “Every now and then, I stumble across a programming language that does something so different that it changes how I think about coding. In this post, I want to share some of my favorite finds.”

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How a 97 mph fastball looks in the box. You still think baseball is easy? http://t.co/VIPfZQGUco — America's Pastime (@Lifeis_baseball) April 11, 2014 via http://twitter.com/Lifeis_baseball

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Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three. — Teju Cole (@tejucole) April 11, 2014 via http://twitter.com/tejucole

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@kenarneson for all your shin burger highlights, look no further than @Kruk_Says — Matt Notley (@notmattley) April 11, 2014 via http://twitter.com/notmattley