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Education

How to Make Americans Read Again

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via New York Times

The reading crisis is real, but the solution does not require new inventions.

Science/Tech

Something Made Earth’s Molten Core Reverse Direction In 2010

Today at 04:08 AM, via Slashdot

ScienceAlert reports:In the molten ocean of iron churning in Earth’s outer core, a section deep beneath the Pacific Ocean suddenly reversed direction and started moving eastward against the planet’s usual westward flow. This happened in 2010, according to satellite measurements of Earth’s magnetic field, and scientists are still trying to figure out what caused it… [I]t seemed to have a large,...

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US, Australia, and UK Plan New Unmanned Vehicles to Protect Undersea Data Cables

Today at 03:08 AM, via Slashdot

“Around 570 cables (plus a further 80 planned) carry between 95% and 99% of the world’s intercontinental telecommunications data,” reports CNN (since fiber cables offer speeds of terabits per second, carry much more data than satellite links). And “networks of green energy cables carrying electricity are also starting to sprawl across the world’s seabeds.” Now to protect them, the U.S.,...

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‘The Oral Tradition That Built Software May Not Survive AI’

Today at 00:15 AM, via Slashdot

A historian-turned-software engineer warns that “so little is ever written down” by professional programmers in a new article for Fast Company:Perhaps there’s an early design doc, but then it turns out that everything was substantially revised before work began. Maybe there are a few wiki pages explaining known issues, some of which were solved a long time ago and others that have been left to...