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Fri, 07 Dec 2018 14:42:45 GMT

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Nerd Culture:

• MIT researchers create a robot houseplant that moves on its own (via) – has science gone too far?
• A Portal Port Programmed For Platforms Of The Past
• Six Degrees of Wikipedia (via)
• The blue eyed islanders puzzle
• Mensa Online-Test

STEM/MINT:

• Mitochondrial DNA Can Be Inherited From Fathers (via)
• Record-breaking atomic clocks precise enough to measure spacetime distortions

Software/Programming:

• Google, Mozilla working on letting web apps edit files despite warning it could be 'abused in terrible ways' (via)
• The Kernel Underground
• Microsoft to Silently Remove the CONCATENATE Function from Excel, Offers Paid Alternative: CONCAT
• Quiz zum Tag der Computersicherheit
• Compiler basics: lisp to assembly (via)

WTF:

• L’Oréal’s Smart Hairbrush (via)

Art (Comics etc.):

• Nudist Colony