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• Marginal Revolution: The diamond oceans of Uranus and Neptune
  Neptune and Uranus may have diamond icebergs floating atop liquid diamond seas closer to home. The surprise finding comes from the first detailed measurements of the melting point of diamond, Discovery News reports. Scientists zapped diamond with a laser at pressures 40 million times greater than the Earth's atmosphere at sea level, and then […]
• Adam Frey dies after long battle with cancer | TheMat.com - USA Wrestling...Rest In Peace
  The wrestling community lost a good friend today. Adam Frey, the Cornell wrestler who fought cancer time after time with just as much tenacity as he did when he wrestled foes to the mat, passed away on Saturday, Dec. 26. Frey was a Junior Nationals freestyle champion and top-ranked recruit when he signed with Cornell University. He was an NCAA q […]
• Rediscovering Central Asia
  In AD 998, two young men living nearly 200 miles apart, in ­present-­day Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, entered into a correspondence. With verbal jousting that would not sound out of place in a ­21st-­century laboratory, they debated 18 questions, several of which resonate strongly even ­today. Are there other sola […]
• Banks That Bundled Bad Debt Also Bet Against It
  In late October 2007, as the financial markets were starting to come unglued, a Goldman Sachs trader, Jonathan M. Egol, received very good news. At 37, he was named a managing director at the firm. Mr. Egol, a Princeton graduate, had risen to prominence inside the bank by creating mortgage-related securities, named Abacus, that were at fi […]
• The Beatles Never Broke Up...
  The Beatles "Everyday Chemistry"   On Sept. 9, 2009 I experienced something that I still am having trouble believing happened to me.  I came into the possession of a cassette tape containing a Beatles album that was never released. I dont expect you to believe what happened to me, I sure wouldn't, but thats why I grabbed the tap […]
• Stop using "Win" and "Fail" as complete sentences....
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• Failure Magazine - Girgory Perelman
  Failure Magazine Million Dollar Math Problem Grigory Perelman and the mathematical breakthrough of the century—the Poincaré Conjecture. Written by Jason Zasky   Filed under Science & Technology Grigory Perelman. […]
• Why It's Better To Pretend You Don't Know Anything About Computers - The Oatmeal
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• 3,2,1...Nuke Explosions since 1945 via Ritholtz...
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• Altucher Checks In on Sunday Day Traders - Financial Adviser - WSJ
  Eight years ago I started day-trading for a living, and then moved on to trading for various hedge funds. No profession is more brutal on the mind and body — except for maybe professional kickboxing. Your entire job becomes about mental and physical survival as you are up against the greatest minds on the planet. You have no idea who they are, on […]