Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch — and Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it

Issue #336 — March 09, 2021

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Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch text.npr.org \| points: 1325 \| comments: 273

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Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it bloodknife.com \| points: 631 \| comments: 622

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Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet technologyelevation.com \| points: 543 \| comments: 717

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The Kilobyte’s Gambit vole.wtf \| points: 488 \| comments: 142

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Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes bloomberg.com \| points: 472 \| comments: 523

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Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites bbc.com \| points: 442 \| comments: 396

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-2000 Lines of Code folklore.org \| points: 387 \| comments: 198

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Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via subsea cable reuters.com \| points: 386 \| comments: 407

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Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life avinayak.github.io \| points: 346 \| comments: 51

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The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo arstechnica.com \| points: 331 \| comments: 283

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When did writing in major newspapers become so bad? mleverything.substack.com \| points: 294 \| comments: 278

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Game Theory (2007) oyc.yale.edu \| points: 268 \| comments: 42

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MIPS Becomes RISC-V eejournal.com \| points: 260 \| comments: 104

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UC’s termination of Elsevier contract has had limited negative impact (2020) dailybruin.com \| points: 255 \| comments: 83

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Google suffers from a digital petro curse world.hey.com \| points: 246 \| comments: 139

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Excel Never Dies notboring.co \| points: 229 \| comments: 212

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TLA+ en.wikipedia.org \| points: 213 \| comments: 62

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Four times I felt discriminated against for being a female developer betterprogramming.pub \| points: 183 \| comments: 162

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Best practices can slow your application down stackoverflow.blog \| points: 181 \| comments: 168

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Lord of the Ring(s): Side Channel Attacks on the CPU On-Chip Ring Interconnect arxiv.org \| points: 179 \| comments: 43

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