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- Analysis | Fear the deer: Crash data illuminates America’s deadliest animal https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/01/20/deer-car-collisions/ 22 comments nature
- Paris, Berlin illuminate landmarks to honor Ukraine - National Zero https://nationalzero.com/2022/02/23/paris-berlin-illuminate-landmarks-to-honor-ukraine/ 42 comments worldnews
- [R] Illuminating Diverse Neural Cellular Automata for Level Generation https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.05489 2 comments machinelearning
- Study illuminates origins of lung cancer in never smokers. A genomic analysis of lung cancer in people with no history of smoking has found that a majority of these tumors arise from the accumulation of mutations caused by natural processes in the body. https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/lung-cancer-never-smokers 6 comments science
- The Plutocratic Takeover of European Soccer Is Nearly Complete: This year’s insane transfer-window period has illuminated the sport’s apocalyptic financial inequities. https://newrepublic.com/article/163473/lionel-messi-european-football-economy 4 comments soccer
- Illuminating The Dark Age Of Blockchain: Algorand https://arringtonxrpcapital.com/2021/07/19/illuminating-the-dark-age-of-blockchain-algorand/ 53 comments cryptocurrency
- Never stopped me dreaming: how Euro 96 illuminated our world https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jun/05/never-stopped-me-dreaming-how-euro-96-illuminated-our-world 32 comments soccer
- How the Slowest Computer Programs Illuminate Math’s Fundamental Limits https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-busy-beaver-game-illuminates-the-fundamental-limits-of-math-20201210 2 comments coding
- Render Millions of Direct Lights in Real-Time With RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI) https://news.developer.nvidia.com/render-millions-of-direct-lights-in-real-time-with-rtx-direct-illumination-rtxdi/ 47 comments hardware
- [Bryant] "Underneath it all -- the passive-aggressive questions about what walking out will prove, how people will never, ever watch the NBA again -- is threat, questions less in search of illumination but designed to diminish the players, to question their authenticity..." https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/ihiuiy/bryant_underneath_it_all_the_passiveaggressive/ 475 comments nba
- Trump campaign operative's letter to RNC illuminates GOP's problem in Nevada https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/trump-campaign-operatives-letter-to-rnc-illuminates-gops-problem-in-nevada 4 comments politics
- The human language pathway in the brain has been identified by scientists as being at least 25 million years old -- 20 million years older than previously thought. The study illuminates the remarkable transformation of the human language pathway https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2020/04/originsoflanguage25millionyearsold/ 550 comments science
- RTX Global Illumination has been released with source code and the ability to run on any DXR capable GPU https://developer.nvidia.com/rtxgi 74 comments hardware
- Greece Plans to Build a Floating , Illuminated Net Fence in Aegean Sea https://www.euronews.com/2020/01/30/greece-plans-to-build-a-2-7km-floating-fence-to-stop-migrants-reaching-its-islands 3 comments worldnews
- The Illuminations of Hannah Arendt: why Arendt's work is more important now than ever https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/opinion/why-read-hannah-arendt-now.html 69 comments philosophy
- Judge Tashima, who personally lived through Japanese internment, has an illuminating back and forth with a DOJ attorney arguing that soap is not necessary for the safety and sanitation of the minors detained in CBP immigration facilities. https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/c/embed/1f87beee-6cc8-4ff5-841e-5f142daadb82 3 comments politics
- Aristotle and Fake News: Why understanding rhetoric helps illuminate credible arguments http://www.hussainather.com/2019/01/guest-post-aristotle-and-fake-news-why.html 13 comments philosophy
- Motherboard illuminating error code, not booting https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/a22o1g/motherboard_illuminating_error_code_not_booting/ 4 comments techsupport
- A study has found the Earth’s artificially illuminated area had grown by 2.2% per year, a rate that does not appear to be slowing. The share of that lit land that is constantly illuminated—with the nighttime lights never going off also increased 2.2% per year. http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/11/e1701528 3 comments science
- This analysis from NiceHashWTF is very illuminating https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6u1jqt/first_8mb_block_mined_with_nearly_40000/dlpgjy6/ 6 comments btc
- ASU astronomers Sangeeta Malhotra & James Rhoads, working w international teams in Chile & China, are attempting to find when the very first light illuminated the universe. This dramatic moment, known as re-ionization, occurred sometime between 300 million years & one Bn years after the Big Bang. http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/835116/dawn-of-time-dark-matter-camera-when-did-time-start-re-ionizaton 3 comments space
- XENKO; X-Platform, GPL engine with support for Vulkan, global illumination, 3D audio and VR released http://www.siliconstudio.co.jp/en/news/pressreleases/2017/en1702xenko/ 31 comments gamedev
- A researcher has successfully developed a method to accurately manipulate gene expression by light illumination and demonstrated its usability by creating double-headed zebrafish. https://www.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/blog/manipulating-gene-expression-precisely-using-light/ 7 comments science
- Morecambe Mess: Football Club In Chaos - a fascinating and illuminating investigation into the club's recent turmoil http://www.thebay.co.uk/news/local-news/morecambe-mess-football-club-in-chaos/ 15 comments soccer
- New iPhone 8 leaks from "Tex19leaks", site that accurately leaked iPhone 6s and 7's design. Tex19leaks claim "Apple is removing home button, instead going for mini-trackpad (similar to new MacBook Pro), with LED illuminated circle icon in it's place. It will still contain TouchID." http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2016/08/20/apple-iphone-7-pro-cancellation/#321253074a4b 2 comments apple
- Illuminating life's building blocks: A suite of tools now enables scientists to see proteins at work in living cells at the single-molecule level. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v533/n7604/full/533565a.html 16 comments science
- Focusing sunlight can make a bright spot in mid-air (probably by illuminating dust), is it feasible that enough sunlight could heat the air such that the air itself radiates in the visible spectrum? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_plants_in_the_Mojave_Desert#Solar_One_and_Solar_Two 3 comments askscience
- Giant mirrors reflect winter sun into Norwegian town of Rjukan. Celebrations as project to illuminate mountain town during winter months results in first deflected sunrays reaching its main square. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/30/giant-mirrors-first-winter-sun-norway-rjukan 5 comments technology
- "Oh, My Hand": Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Illuminated Manuscripts http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/03/21/monk-complaints-manuscripts/ 3 comments history
- Dark City: Giant Mirrors Aim to Illuminate Town in Shadows http://weburbanist.com/2013/08/04/dark-city-giant-mirrors-aim-to-illuminate-town-in-shadows/ 8 comments technology
- European night illumination in 1992 and 2010 http://www.esa.int/our_activities/observing_the_earth/earth_from_space_night_lights 50 comments europe
- Daily Show interview illuminates the arrogance and stupidity of those who run America's financial system. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-february-7-2013/exclusive---neil-barofsky-extended-interview-pt--2 8 comments politics
- Genes from fireflies illuminate tumors in real-time allowing early identification of developing cancers. http://www.futurity.org/health-medicine/light-up-tumors-show-aging-in-real-time/ 31 comments science
- Want to help make Linux Tycoon and Illumination Software Creator (and more) go GPL? Now's your chance. http://lunduke.com/?p=3372 16 comments gnu
- The Solar Cell that Also Shines: Luminescent 'LED-type' Design Breaks Efficiency Record, Illuminates 50-Year Mystery http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/13761/solar-cell-also-shines-luminescent-led-type-design-breaks-efficiency-record-illuminates-50-year-my 10 comments science
- Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again -- Scientists are studying the drugs’ potential for treating mental problems and illuminating the nature of consciousness. http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html 41 comments cogsci
- With its LED ceiling web and light brush, Draw the Lights enables any space to be illuminated in any format, as though one were painting on a canvas. http://www.red-dot.sg/concept/porfolio/o_e/il/r089.htm 5 comments technology
- Artificial illumination can mess with more than your mental health. http://www.thefitnessclub.info/health-and-fitness/healthfitnessartificialillumination_13591.html 2 comments science
- LED's are illuminating Mona Lisa! http://economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7904236 3 comments reddit.com