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“Elastic Cloaking” – New Flexible Material Designed to Protect Buildings, Military Personnel
(scitechdaily.com)
University of Missouri engineers said their material has both civilian and military applications. Shake, rattle, and roll. Even though they are miles from the epicenter of an earthquake, buildings can collapse due to how an earthquake’s energy makes the ground shake and rattle. Now, a team of ...
New Enzyme Has Remarkable Capacity To Help Break Down Chemical Building Block of PET Plastic
(scitechdaily.com)
Scientists who helped to pioneer the use of enzymes to eat plastic have taken an important next step in developing nature-based solutions to the global plastics crisis. Scientists who helped to pioneer the use of enzymes to eat plastic have taken an important next step in developing nature-based sol...
[Referenced from an open letter:]
To my friends, colleagues, and family:
I’ve just tweeted a link to a new paper:
“An Open Letter to the Tech Community: Humanize the Craft of Building Interactive Computer Applications”. I invite you to follow me on Twitter at @conways_law or http://twitter.co...
Really nice design and implementation, and apenwarr’s generally enjoyable writing to boot.
djb’s original design is here: http://cr.yp.to/redo.html
I don’t see a “build systems” tag; maybe we should start a meta thread to add one?