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2013
January 1
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2013 Pan-Mass Challenge
For the fourteenth straight year I’ll be riding in the Pan-Mass Challenge which, through the Jimmy Fund, raises money to support research and treatment at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. For more information you might look at this year’s fact sheet.
You can contribute online if you’d like to support my effort.
posted @ 09:23 AM EST
January 8
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Can a new vaccine prevent colon cancer?
Allison Hydzik-Pittsburgh, futurity.orgU. PITTSBURGH (US) — In clinical trials, a first-of-its-kind vaccine successfully prompted the immune system to respond to early indications of colon cancer in people at high risk for the disease.“This prophylactic colon cancer vaccine boos…
posted @ 06:51 AM EST
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Comet ‘15 times brighter than the moon’ to be visible from Britain
By Gregory Walton, telegraph.co.ukA comet fifteen times brighter than a full Moon could be visible from Britain in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, astronomers have predicted.
The comet, named Ison, is expected to be so “spectacularly bright” that it will be visible to t…
posted @ 06:52 AM EST
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Globe at Night 2013 campaign
Thilina Heenatigala, astronomerswithoutborders.orgThe GLOBE at Night program, hosted by the U.S. National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), is an international citizen-science campaign to raise public awareness of the impact of light pollution. The worldwide campaign invite…
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Why this atheist celebrates Christmas
Jim Al-Khalili, guardian.co.ukWhether you are commemorating the birth of Jesus or marking all that’s positive about humanity, this is a time to rejoice
We tend to wish people a happy Christmas in Britain as a cultural nicety without checking whether the person we’re addressi…
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Christmas morning, seen from space
By Alan Boyle, nbcnews.comAll calendars must end, whether we’re talking about the Maya calendar’s nearly 400-year baktun cycle — or our 25-day Cosmic Log Space Advent Calendar. This final image for the 2012 calendar comes from the GOES East weather satellite,…
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Abby Wambach, Lionel Messi, Pia Sundhage win FIFA awards
By Kevin Baxter, latimes.comSports
Argentina’s Lionel Messi and U.S. national team star Abby Wambach were named winners of FIFA’s 2012 male and female players of the year awards Monday during world soccer’s annual gala in Zurich.
For Messi the award was his fourt…
posted @ 06:56 AM EST
January 10
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Asteroid Apophis Takes a Pass in 2036
skyandtelescope.comAfter tracking asteroid 99942 Apophis with NASA’s giant Goldstone radar dish, astronomers are now certain that the threatening asteroid has no chance of striking Earth in 2036.
Astronomers surely enjoy dramatic stories as much…
posted @ 08:12 AM EST
January 12
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New Year, New Desmos.
Incredible graphing calculator that runs in your browser
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January 15
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(via GM debuts luxury Cadillac ELR plug-in hybrid with Chevy Volt underpinnings | The Verge)
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January 19
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Polar Explorer Eric Larsen Begins Attempt to Bike to the South Pole – Beyond the Edge
Posted by James Mills of The Joy Trip Project onDecember 17, 2012, nationalgeographic.comAfter polar explorer Eric Larsen finished on the “triple crown of adventure”—traveling to the South Pole, the North Pole, and the top of Mount Everest in one year—it was hard to imagine what he might do next. But he has a plan. In December…
He didn’t make it. ERIC LARSEN CANCELS SOUTH POLE BIKE TREK
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January 23
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Bayesian Statistics and what Nate Silver Gets Wrong : The New Yorker
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January 27
The Four Digit Number Game in JavaScript
Given that the Java plugin for web browsers has fallen out of favor due to perpetual vulnerabilities, not to mention the lack of a Java interpreter at all on some devices, I translated Mark4, the Four Digit Number Game, into JavaScript. Let the games begin.
posted @ 03:57 PM EST
January 28
How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail | Ars Technica
It’s game over for a patent troll that sued nearly 50 big retailers.
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January 29
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On Feb. 15th an asteroid about half the size of a football field will fly past Earth closer than many man-made satellites. Since regular sky surveys began in the 1990s, astronomers have never seen an object so big come so close to our planet.
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January 31
Mark4 Web Apps for Small Screens
I created web apps (pages) for playing Mark4, the four digit number game, on devices with small screens: one where the machine scores the player’s guesses and another where the player scores the machine’s guesses.
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