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- Are Today’s Portraitists Better Than the Old Masters? https://evolveartist.com/blog/todays-portraitists-vs-old-masters/ 132 comments
- Mortality and the Old Masters https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/13/mortality-and-the-old-masters 6 comments
- Super Master: Hundred-year-old cyclist rides 100 km in 4 hours, 17 minutes and 27 seconds http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/2012/09/28/hundred-year-old-cyclist-rides/Y1OxxN0lGgERtiCjThP8RN/story.html 3 comments bicycling
- Watch Alec Baldwin’s 3-Year-Old Daughter Absolutely Master His Trump Impression http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alec-baldwin-daughter-trump_us_5923946ae4b094cdba56e345?section=us_comedy 9 comments politics
- The only special master candidate Trump and the DOJ can agree on: a 78-year-old judge appointed by Reagan https://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-raymond-dearie-special-master-doj-trump-candidate-2022-9 833 comments politics
- Once Homeless, 10-Year-Old Tanitoluwa Adewumi Is Now America's Newest Chess Master https://www.theroot.com/once-homeless-10-year-old-tanitoluwa-adewumi-is-now-am-1846879505 4 comments chess
- 13-year-old to begin microbiology master's course, her father sold land to educate her http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/at-13-she-is-the-new-senior-on-lucknow-university-campus-412538 14 comments india
- $39 Cooler Master case turns your old Framework Laptop parts into a tiny PC https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/23/23652939/framework-cooler-master-sff-pc-case 13 comments technology
- Magnus Plays in the Style of Old Masters! https://youtu.be/gean0kk1bo4 6 comments chess
- I’m doing a study about existential anxiety and religious beliefs in 18-55 year olds. Please help a master’s student out and fill out my survey! https://forms.gle/w6PdEQcAyhHQeu6R9 10 comments india
- An 87-year-old grandmother from Sri Lanka has become the oldest person to earn a master's degree at this university in Canada https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/07/world/ontario-grandma-oldest-person-graduate-york-university/ 15 comments upliftingnews
- Meet America's Newest Chess Master, 10-Year-Old Tanitoluwa Adewumi https://www.npr.org/2021/05/11/995936257/meet-americas-newest-chess-master-10-year-old-tanitoluwa-adewumi 6 comments chess
- Treble Dutch: £13m old master painting stolen for a third time https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/27/treble-dutch-old-master-painting-laughing-boys-stolen-for-a-third-time 3 comments nottheonion
- Mozilla - Ten year old bug weak Master Password in Firefox https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524403 3 comments linux
- America's Achilles' Heel: the Mississippi River's Old River Control Structure by Dr. Jeff Masters https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/americas-achilles-heel-mississippi-rivers-old-river-control-structure?fbclid=iwar02hbm5bd7hocfkrda9eoajkw793kp8yz6kvyqgj3_bfccamzc4yy05y10 3 comments history
- Firefox 66.0.5 released - more robust addon verification fix for users with an old master password, inaccessible cert store, ... https://www.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/66.0.5/releasenotes/ 111 comments firefox
- Master Foo's koans may be quite old, but they are still a gem when it comes to understanding the Unix Philosophy http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/ 40 comments linux
- Chess Grand Master (Bobby Fisher's second) and former Catholic Priest William Lombardy dead at 79 years old https://www.chess.com/news/view/gm-william-lombardy-1937-2017-2017 14 comments chess
- 101-year-old Indian wins sprinting gold medal at the World Masters Games in Auckland http://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/91868303/the-101yearold-world-champion-takes-gold-medal-at-masters-games 10 comments india
- Alfonso Wong, creator of famous 'Lao Fu Zi' or Old Master Q comic, dies http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/creator-of-old-master-q-comic-alfonso-wong-dies 3 comments worldnews
- Excelsior's 27 year old right back Daan Bovenberg retires from football to continue his studies (he got a Master's degree while playing) http://sbvexcelsior.nl/daan-bovenberg-zet-punt-achter-voetbalcarriere/ 20 comments soccer
- Following SpaceX's awesome success, I thought it'd be fun to share Wired's (2 day old) prediction: "SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Will Fail Its Way to Being a Master Lander" http://www.wired.com/2016/05/spacexs-falcon-9-will-fail-way-master-lander/ 54 comments spacex
- 75-year-old Jack Nicklaus just hit a hole-in-one at The Masters Par 3 Tournament http://coed.com/2015/04/08/jack-nicklaus-hole-in-one-masters-par-3/ 5 comments sports
- Japan's master 'bat man' calls it quits: after almost five decades of making bats for great hitters on both sides of the Pacific, the 70-year-old Isokazu Kubota will step down. http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/people/aj201401290050 9 comments baseball
- "To My Old Master" - A letter from a former slave to his previous owner, after he had been requested to come back and work on his farm after the war ended. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38479/38479-h/38479-h.htm#page_265 4 comments politics
- 55 year old Homeless Man carries 2 Masters Degrees ( Maurice Johnson )--Give this guy some attention reddit! http://www.youtube.com/watch?amp%3Bfeature=related&v=8eNPAH46oI8 9 comments reddit.com
- 17 year old boy kills parents with hammer and then throws house party while their bodies are hidden in the master bedroom. http://abcnews.go.com/us/hammer-murder-teen-face-death-penalty/story?id=14107448 9 comments reddit.com
- Mark Newman, a true artist; a man who can go from the old traditional sculpture school to the grotesque and fantastic style in just a blink of an eye... just look how his works look like they were alive!...a master, an inspiration https://sites.google.com/a/vikeyworld.com/www/awesome-sculptures-by-mark-newman 3 comments reddit.com
- 11 Year Old absolute Guitar Master http://www.psychodad.eu/index.php/videos-+-audios/11-year-old-absolute-guitar-master.html 12 comments reddit.com
- If Only the old Master Photographers had Photoshop.... http://adamthinks.com/?p=116 2 comments reddit.com
- Be an Old Master, for 10 Guineas http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/arts/design/31bier.html?ref=arts 2 comments history
- [Masters] Maple Leafs debutant Nikita Grebenkin: "I like it's hard hockey. Team like hard hockey. It's chip nice. Back check, yep. Team speak me: backcheck, forecheck & paycheck" 21-year-old lets out a huge laugh https://twitter.com/markhmasters/status/1859447718793318743?s=46&t=S_LiHKGoXi91Lmgu-MxoZA 122 comments hockey
- A team of French entrepreneurs have written a computer algorithm that can create original paintings with some resemblance to works by Old Masters such as Rembrandt | Christie’s to put one of them on sale in New York in October with a price estimate of $7,000 to $10,000. https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-france-art-artificial-intelligence/the-artist-as-an-algorithm-robot-made-rembrandt-for-sale-idukkcn1m1222?il=0 8 comments technology
- [Adrian Wojnarowski] “We had Steph Curry shooting drills. We had moves that you would name after Steph Curry. People are growing up on that now. Trae Young is the guy that’s absolutely mastering it as a 19 year old.” -Tom Crean https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/956933345568542720 236 comments nba
- 101-year-old Indian woman wins 100 meter dash at World Masters Games in New Zealand as the only competitor in the 100+ age category. https://mobile.twitter.com/abc/status/856872945808941056 22 comments india
- 85-year-old graduating this week with her Master's degree. Next week, she may be homeless. http://cbs5.com/education/elderly.grad.homeless.2.1742973.html 10 comments reddit.com
- Artificial neural networks can tell one artist’s work from another’s using the 3D topography of the brushstrokes, researchers have found. The technique could help to identify forgeries, or to distinguish the hands of various members of an old master’s workshop who have contributed to one painting. https://heritagesciencejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40494-021-00618-w 2 comments science
- New Orleans Pre-Schooler Joins World’s Oldest High IQ Society: Anala Beevers is a 4-year-old genius. At four months, she learned the alphabet. By 18 months, she mastered numbers — in Spanish. And today, at only four years old, she knows the location and capital of every state in the country http://colorlines.com/archives/2013/07/new_orleans_pre-schooler_joins_worlds_oldest_high_iq_society.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+racewireblog+%28colorlines.com%29 7 comments worldnews
- John McCain's family meets every 2 yrs. at the old family plantation in Mississippi. You can tell whether a McCain is the descendent of a slave or a master by the color of their skin. http://www.sfltimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2041&itemid=42 2 comments reddit.com
- 41-Yr Old GI Dies Supporting Afghan War - Master Sgt. Jamal H. Bowers, 41, of Raleigh, N.C., died March 18 at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti, as a result of a non-combat related incident. http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=14355 4 comments politics