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Schneier on Security

• Friday Squid Blogging: Video of Live Giant Squid

Revolutions

• Happy New Year! Top posts of 2015

Scientific Method – Ars Technica

• Reusable, sugar-based polymer purifies water fast

ResearchBuzz

• Thinga, Azerbaijan, Pulp Magazines, More: Friday Buzz, January 1, 2016

Planet Haskell

• Felipe Almeida Lessa: Announcing serversession

Futurity

• Top 1st grade teachers extend benefits of pre-K
• Jefferson’s religion wouldn’t fly with today’s voters
• More magnesium may lower risk of pancreatic cancer

GOOD

•  How Zanzibar’s Butterfly Farmers Are Saving the Environment
• This Group Decorated Bushwick With Anti-Gentrification Holiday Lights

Recyclart

• H.R. Giger Tribute Throne
• Upcycled Chopstick Into Necklace

okmij.org

• An optimized version of extensible-effects: adding specialization RULEs and inlining directives notably improved the performance
• A more efficient implementation of open unions, as existentials over a finite type universe
• Combinators for Impure yet Hygienic Code Generation published in Science of Computer Programming
• The post-proceedings with the extended versions of the selected ML Family and OCaml 2014 workshop submissions are published as EPTCS 198
• FLOPS 2016 First call for participation and call for posters

Springwise

• Top 10 business ideas & opportunities for 2016

WebUrbanist

• Ghostly Floating Farms: Abandoned Rural Buildings of Russia

The Hacker Factor Blog

• Get Out the Vote

Root Simple

• Happy New Year!

Mattias Inks

• Happy new year

Logical Methods in Computer Science

• Typed realizability for first-order classical analysis

Dilbert Daily Strip

• Comic for January 01, 2016

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

• Tuberculosis Contact Investigations — United States, 2003–2012
• Fatal Bacterial Meningitis Possibly Associated with Substandard Ceftriaxone — Uganda, 2013
• Increases in Drug and Opioid Overdose Deaths — United States, 2000–2014
• Notes from the Field: Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis Misdiagnoses at a Rural Urgent-Care Clinic — Wyoming, March 2015
• Notes from the Field: Hepatitis C Outbreak in a Dialysis Clinic — Tennessee, 2014
• QuickStats: Birth Rates Among Females Aged 15–19 Years, by Race/Ethnicity* — National Vital Statistics System, United States,† 1991 and 2014
• Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables (50th Week)
• Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables (51st Week)

Ars Technica

• Reusable, sugar-based polymer purifies water fast
• In 2016, terror suspects and 7-Eleven thieves may bring surveillance to Supreme Court
• 73 nations face off at the World Magic Cup

Grist

• Other countries have good hitchhiking apps. Why doesn’t the United States?

Very Small Array

• This Again

TLC

• Campervan

13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR

• Is 'The Nutcracker' Part Of The Fabric Of Christmas?

NOTCOT

• NOTCOT.org Roundup
• NOTFZJ80: Off-roading Arches National Park

John Hendrix

• [drawingis-magic:

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Design Milk

• 3DS Culinary Gets New Offices with a Hyper-Modern Interior
• Desktop Wallpaper: January 2016
• Calico Wallpaper Debuts New Fashion Line
• Friday Five with Marie Kristine Schmidt of Bang & Olufsen

Cabin Porn™

• Cabin in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah.Contributed by Jake...

National Geographic News

• More African Elephants May Be Sold to China This Year
• Week’s Best Space Pictures: Frozen Fractals Crisscross Mars

someecards.com

• The top 42 tweets of the week (and 2016 so far), as picked by someone who spends way too much time on Twitter.
• Encouragement

HotLinks

• butts.lol
• Song A Day Navigator
• The Website Obesity Crisis

the neuron club

• Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down. – The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Statistical Tests – r-statistics.co
• Stop Procrastination in its Tracks

wrdbnr

• PEOPLE

Garden and Gun

• The Year in Southern Restaurants: Sam Jones BBQ