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Is the New Chinese Airliner a Kind of Flying iPhone?
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The Two-Stroke Engine: A Remnant of Poor-Country Technology in Rich Countries
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Local-Level Democracy: Beginning a Chronicle
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China Launches the C919! Should Boeing and Airbus Look Out?
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Wondering Why We Like Fresno?
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First Time I Have Seen This in an Uber
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In Defense of Reading, E-Reader Style
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More on Machines, Reading, Thinking, and Life
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We Hate the Internet, but It Saves Our Skins (cont).
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The Way We Read Now
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We All Hate the Internet, but Sometimes It Saves Our Skin
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Library of Congress Today's Aviation News: The Good and the Weird
How a demonstration of calm competence becomes a "terrifying" episode
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Michael Holley/Wikimedia 'What Was It Like Before Electricity, Daddy?'
A report from the dawn of time
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Wikimedia Commons Can We Learn Anything From the Germanwings Disaster?
A technologist says the day of airliners flown by remote control is closer than we think. Is that good news or bad? Plus, why it's better to be a co-pilot and other lessons from the latest crash.
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Creative Fresno California's Centers of Technology: Bay Area, L.A., San Diego, and ... Fresno?
How would you build a high-tech center in a vast farming zone? You might start by applying tech solutions to farming problems of water use and sustainability in all forms.
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Tinderbox Update, Plus The Brain
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Mark Bernstein, Eastgate Systems Interesting Software Update: Tinderbox How-To, Jerry's Brain
New looks from two old favorites
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UC Davis and Esri Talking With Dan Richard About High-Speed Rail
The chairman of California's costly and controversial infrastructure project explains why (in his view) it actually will get built—and whether its champion, 77-year-old Governor Jerry Brown, is likely to be able to take a ride.
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Wikimedia Sobering News Out of China, Part 4 Million
"Pinging Baidu without a VPN takes 17ms on average with 0% loss; pinging the Atlantic without a VPN takes 350ms and about 40% loss." Chronicles of a country walling itself off
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ProPublica Fun With Chinese Agitprop, Presidents' Day Edition
A preposterously nationalistic video celebrating Internet censorship, which gets less funny the more you think about it
