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Picture of a Single Atom Wins Science Photo Contest
"A remarkable photo of a single atom trapped by electric fields has just been awarded the top prize in a well-known science photography competition. The photo is titled “Single Atom in an Ion Trap” and was shot by David Nadlinger of the University of Oxford."
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Trump’s first State of the Union address, annotated
"President Trump delivered his first State of the Union address on Tuesday. The Fix has annotated the president's speech, using Genius. To view an annotation, click on the yellow, highlighted text. Mr. Speaker, Mr."
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How Sharp Power Threatens Soft Power
"Washington has been wrestling with a new term that describes an old threat. “Sharp power,” as coined by Christopher Walker and Jessica Ludwig of the National Endowment for Democracy (writing for ForeignAffairs."
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How JavaScript works: The building blocks of Web Workers + 5 cases when you should use them
"This is post # 7 of the series dedicated to exploring JavaScript and its building components."
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Frameworks without the framework: why didn't we think of this sooner?
"You can't write serious applications in vanilla JavaScript without hitting a complexity wall. But a compiler can do it for you. Wait, this new framework has a runtime? Ugh. Thanks, I'll pass. – front end developers in 2018"
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The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018
"Microservices became a very popular topic in over the last couple of years1. 'Microservice madness' goes something like this: Netflix are great at devops. Netfix do microservices. Therefore: If I do microservices, I am great at devops."
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Upgrading a create-react-app project to a SSR + code splitting setup
"Since its inception, create-react-app is a great tool for rapidly prototyping React apps, demos and testing different features or techniques. That was, and still is, the main idea behind it."
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React, Redux and JavaScript Architecture
"The content of this article was originally presented to the Squiz Front-End Engineering group. Whether you use them or not, React and Redux are important. They have changed the way we think about structuring front-end web applications. They can be very powerful. But they are not magic."
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Decapitated Worms Regrow Heads, Keep Old Memories – National Geographic Blog
"In French Revolution-style, researchers decapitated flatworms—then did something that would give even Madam Defarge the creeps."
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Meltdown and Spectre Linux Kernel Status
"By now, everyone knows that something “big” just got announced regarding computer security. Heck, when the Daily Mail does a report on it , you know something is bad…"
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Who created today’s strong economy? Janet Yellen.
"One of Washington’s permanent parlor games is how much credit or blame a president deserves for the state of the economy. Inevitably, then, the question being asked now is whether Donald Trump or Barack Obama created today’s strong economy. The correct answer: neither." read full text »Reading Today
Democrats think 2018 will be a good year, but are they realistic about their own problems?
"Thanks mostly to President Trump, Democrats believe they are poised for good things in 2018: the possibility of taking control of the House and gains elsewhere in the midterm elections. But planning victory laps would be premature." read full text »Reading Today
The 100 best nonfiction books of all time: the full list
"After two years of careful reading, moving backwards through time, Robert McCrum has concluded his selection of the 100 greatest nonfiction books. Take a quick look at five centuries of great writing 1." read full text »Winter Sky
Newberry National Volcanic Monument
Full alertness means something quite different
Better executed effort
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Muddied water
