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New Inca road to Machu Picchu discovered
New Inca road to Machu Picchu discovered archaeologicalnews: Archaeologists have discovered a new section of Inca Road— and this one leads right to Machu Picchu. According to Andina news agency, the newly discovered road is about one and a half kilometers long, and varies between 1.2 and 1.4 meters in breadth, depending on…
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mayhap: fertile-mind-seeks-water: sexliesnlove: “Black men and boys” have been the target of the war on drugs’ racist policies—stopped, frisked and disturbed—“often before they’re old enough to vote…Those youths are arrested most often for nonviolent first offenses that would go ignored in middle-class white neighborhoods…Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses, dreaming of…
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Paul Otlet and the birth of networked information
jkottke: Alex Wright previously wrote about Paul Otlet (and many other things) in his 2007 book Glut (my post about the book is here). Otlet imagined something like personal computing and the internet back in the 1930s. Here, the workspace is no longer cluttered with any books. In their place, a screen and a telephone…
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Despite its grand reputation, Helvetica can’t do everything. It works well in big sizes, but it can be really weak in small sizes. Shapes like ‘C’ and ‘S’ curl back into themselves, leaving tight “apertures”–the channels of white between a letter’s interior and exterior. So each shape halts the eye again and again, rather than…
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Kimberly Bryant, who spent a decade as an engineer in biotechnology, is the founder of the educational nonprofit Black Girls Code. Gaming has evolved into one of what Ms. Bryant calls the “core pillars” of Black Girls Code. “We find that it taps into every element of coding necessary to be a technologist,” she said.…