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From http://www.livescience.com/53518-babylonians-tracked-jupiter... > "It's not an actual trapezoid that describes the shape of a field, or some configuration of the planets in sp…

In modern usage, Mir means world, not kingdom, and Mordor is not spelled Mirdor. Besides, that's not how Google's translation system works.

This is probably not rendered in real time.

> a modern boss is tolerant, he behaves like a colleague of ours, sharing dirty jokes, inviting us for a drink, openly displaying his weaknesses, admitting that he is “merely human…

I got a copy of the first volume in this series (After Man: A Zoology of the Future) when I was 5 years old, and it was one of my favorite books growing up.

They are not brainwashed to the same extent that the people of North Korea are brainwashed, but the majority of them do get all of their news from (State-owned) TV channels and unc…

Same in Hebrew: חחחח (hhhh)

> [instead of referring to "Mom" as an example of a non technical user] ideal nouns will refer to non-human or purely technical categories, such as cat, non-technical user, Ubuntu …

The hypothesis presented in the article is that of an ancestor simulation. A future post-human civilization may very well be interested in the brains of their ancestors or creators…

This doesn't measure your personality, but the content that you choose to share on Facebook. I work out regularly and am very hard working, but I choose not to post about those thi…

I think that it's supposed to demonstrate how inaccurate the Mercator projection (the one that's used on Google Maps) is at conveying relative size of continents. For example, Gree…

> The map you see is the Mercator projection. > But unlike a standard Mercator projection, you can substitute any point on earth as the "pole". (The initial view shows Boston as th…

Most successful products were already tried in the past. Conditions change, and execution is more important than the idea itself.

I usually discover web content through social sites like Reddit, Facebook, or Twitter. On mobile, such sites have built-in browsers, and I suspect that most "app" traffic is actual…

This is an option that can be enabled on a per-subreddit basis. It's not very popular since people like seeing how popular their posts are.

"Let them eat cakes"

It looks a lot like Little Big Adventure.

Why?

GTA players kill hookers. But they also kill police officers, businessmen, joggers, and old ladies. In the upcoming game they will also kill animals. The only thing they don't kill…

> In the context of Judaism it's generally used to means Haredi Judaism, but can sometimes include other conservative groups. That's actually a common misconception. While all "Har…