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severak 5.6.2019 17:10:09

What HBO’s “Chernobyl” Got Right, and What It Got Terribly Wrong

The show’s creators imagine confrontation where it was unthinkable—and, in doing so, they cross the line from conjuring a fiction to creating a lie.

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severak 5.6.2019 16:55:36

Chernobyl’s Cars Paint a Fascinating and Grim Picture Of Soviet Life

At this very moment, the highest-rated television show on IMDb, beating out The Wire, Breaking Bad, the first few actually good seasons of Game of Thrones and other worshipped favorites is a bleakly terrifying mini-series about a nuclear disaster that happened 33 years ago in a country that no longer actually exists. The series is HBO’s Chernobyl, and in addition to being an incredibly engaging and disturbing account of what happened there, it is also a fantastic place to see lots of Soviet cars that rarely make it onto mass-market American television screens.

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severak 5.6.2019 16:40:07

Craig Mazin's Years-Long Obsession with Making 'Chernobyl' Terrifyingly Accurate

"We had a general standing philosophy from the beginning, which was: Accuracy is everything to us."

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severak 5.6.2019 16:00:31

How to Put a Raspberry Pi Inside the Official Raspberry Pi Keyboard

In the early days of home computing, it was quite common to see “all-in-one” computers that were built into the keyboard. Popular models…

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severak 5.6.2019 12:58:15

Paper Radio : The Cosmic Frequency

Paper Radio. Stories, tall and true, from Australia and New Zealand. A creative audio fiction and non-fiction podcast from Australia and New Zealand.

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severak 5.6.2019 11:38:48

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severak 3.6.2019 12:25:47

How the news took over reality

The long read: Is engagement with current affairs key to being a good citizen? Or could an endless torrent of notifications be harming democracy as well as our wellbeing?

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severak 3.6.2019 10:31:24

The prison inside: Japan's hikikomori lack relationships, not physical spaces | The Japan Times

Fifty-three-year-old Kenji Yamase doesn't fit the traditional image of a hikikomori, but then perceptions of Japan's social recluses are changing. "People

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severak 3.6.2019 01:24:34

Zhores Medvedev and the battle for truth in Soviet science – Michael D Gordin | Aeon Ideas

On Zhores Medvedev: The scientists the Soviet Union created became some of its most powerful and courageous critics

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severak 1.6.2019 14:44:29

Gini coefficient

In economics, the Gini coefficient ( JEE-nee), sometimes called Gini index, or Gini ratio, is a measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the income or wealth distribution of a nation's residents, and is the most commonly used measurement of inequality. It was developed by the Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini and published in his 1912 paper Variability and Mutability (Italian: Variabilità e mutabilità).The Gini coefficient measures the inequality among values of a frequency distribution (for example, levels of income). A Gini coefficient of zero expresses perfect equality, where all values are the same (for example, where everyone has the same income). A Gini coefficient of 1 (or 100%) expresses maximal inequality among values (e.g., for a large number of people, where only one person has all the income or consumption, and all others have none, the Gini coefficient will be very nearly one). However, a value greater than one may occur if some persons represent negative contribution to the total (for...

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severak 1.6.2019 14:44:18

Dluhy-Smith: Černobílé vidění světa. Krize ve Venezuele není bojem dobra proti zlu

Krize ve Venezuele trvá několik měsíců, vlastně let, a vláda prezidenta Nicolase Madura se stále drží u moci. I přes nedávný pokus o státní převrat venezuelské opozice vedené Juanem Guaidóem. Ten nevyšel a vypadá to, že se opozice bude muset spokojit s oficiálním vyjednáváním, které se bude odehrávat v příštích týdnech v Norsku.

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severak 31.5.2019 14:23:44

X-RAY AUDIO

Russian X-Ray Records, Bone Music, X-Ray Bootlegs, Soviet Forbidden Music, Roentgenizdat, Jazz on Bones, Music on Ribs

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severak 31.5.2019 11:03:44

So you want to build a journey planner

Having studied graph theory at university and also having the… pleasure of working in the rail industry building a journey planner has…

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severak 31.5.2019 09:55:44

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How markets plundered Free Software's best stuff and used it to create freedom for companies, not people

from https://boingboing.net/2018/06/21/digital-enclosure.html

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severak 31.5.2019 09:37:59

I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me

After 4 months of waiting, that is the response I got from Widevine, Google’s DRM for web browsers, regarding a license agreement. For the last 2 years I’ve been working on a web browser that now cannot be completed because Google, the creators of the open source browser Chrome, won’t allow DRM in an open source project. The browser I’m building, called Metastream, is an Electron-based (Chromium derived), MIT-licensed browser hosted on GitHub.

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severak 30.5.2019 10:30:44

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The Unbuilt Soviet Metro System that Haunts Latvia’s Capital: Beginnings

from https://deepbaltic.com/2019/05/30/the-unbuilt-soviet-metro-system-that-haunts-latvias-capital-beginnings/

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severak 29.5.2019 13:40:56

Natural Stupidity is more Dangerous than Artificial Intelligence

Do you know what’s more dangerous than artificial intelligence? Natural stupidity. In this article, I will explore natural stupidity in…

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severak 29.5.2019 12:30:49

Chernobyl by Andrew Leatherbarrow on Exposure

This text, titled “Chernobyl 01:23:40”, is available to order as an ebook and physical book from Amazon. The book was released on April 26th to coincide with the accident’s 30th anniversary. The version on this webpage is very out of date compared to the final book, but I’ll leave it here as a resource.

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severak 28.5.2019 14:48:58

Prdopeč, spoďáry nebo chemoška. Blogerka sbírá slova, za která by se Češi měli stydět | Aktuálně.cz

Rozhovor s autorkou instagramového účtu Slova z pekla o nejtrapnějších výrazech, které lidé používají, aniž by si uvědomovali, že jsou trapné.

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severak 28.5.2019 13:44:29

Henrietta Lacks

Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day.Lacks was the unwitting source of these cells from a tumor biopsied during treatment for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., in 1951. These cells were then cultured by George Otto Gey who created the cell line known as HeLa, which is still used for medical research. As was then the practice, no consent was obtained to culture her cells, nor were she or her family compensated for their extraction or use. Lacks grew up in rural Virginia. After giving birth to two of their children, she married her cousin David "Day" Lacks. In 1941 the young family moved to Turner Station, near Dundalk, Maryland, in Baltimore County, so Day could work in Bethlehem Steel at Sparrows Point...

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severak 28.5.2019 12:00:35

Mileniálové útočí: angažovanost v poezii literární generace Y

„lze po této básni ještě opakovat Osvětim?“ – Roman Rops-Tůma Na počátku letošního roku obletěla svět (včetně světa českých médií) těžko uvě...

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severak 28.5.2019 10:24:59

Why Every Vehicle Should Have An Electric Motor, Even If It Doesn't Have A Plug

I'll start off this article by admitting that I was totally wrong on the subject of this article a couple of years ago. Sometimes your first impression of a technology is clouded by your biases, sometimes it is clouded by your lack of knowledge, sometimes it is just laziness. In my case, it was all 3.

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severak 28.5.2019 09:50:35

Ďábel se skrývá v procesu: jak se z bruselského nápadu snížit emise staly české lány řepky

Na začátku byla snaha evropských úředníků snížit emise uhlíku přidáváním biosložky do pohonných hmot. Během několika let z nápadu vystřízlivěli.

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severak 27.5.2019 15:25:37

FORTY YEAR MYSTERY SOLVED: THE MUSIC BEHIND PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE

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severak 26.5.2019 00:54:30

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How Much Alcohol Can You Drink Safely?

from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/16/magazine/how-much-alcohol-can-you-drink-safe-health.html

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severak 26.5.2019 00:50:46

Kovy o coming outu: Nejdelší boj byl pro mě ten vnitřní - E15.cz

Karel Kovář známý jako Kovy je jedním z nejúspěšnějších českých youtuberů. Ve svých dvaadvaceti letech má na svém youtubovém kanálu 750 000 odběratelů a jeho nejúspěšnější video dosáhlo deseti milionů zhlédnutí. Jeho youtubová tvorba je pestrá a najdeme v ní jak parodie, vlogy, tak i infotainmentová videa, která mají divákům zábavnou formou přiblížit důležitá společenská témata. Kovář minulý rok stihl vydat i svou prvotinu, autobiografii, kde se mimo jiné veřejně přihlásil k homosexualitě. V osobně laděném rozhovoru jsme se bavili nejen o tom, jak svou orientaci přijímal on a jak na ní reaguje jeho okolí, ale také o kreativitě a humoru.

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