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Many Privileged Students at US Universities are Getting Extra Time on Tests After 'Disability' Diagnoses
Today America's college professors "struggle to accommodate the many students with an official disability designation," reports the Atlantic, "which may entitle them to extra time, a distraction-free environment, or the use of otherwise-prohibited technology."
Their staff writer argues these acco...
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Is Ruby Still a 'Serious' Programming Language?
Wired published an article by California-based writer/programmer Sheon Han arguing that Ruby "is not a serious programming language."
Han believes that the world of programming has "moved on", and "everything Ruby does, another language now does better, leaving it without a distinct niche.
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The Anxieties of Full-Body MRI Scans (Not Covered by Insurance)
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank calls himself "a highly creative hypochondriac" — who just paid for an expensive MRI scan to locate abnormal spots as tiny as 2 millimeters.
He discusses the pros and cons of its "diffusion-weighted imaging" technology combined with the pattern recogn...
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Could America's Paper Checks Be On the Way Out, Like the Penny?
"First the penny. Next, paper checks?" asks CNN:
When the U.S. Mint stopped making pennies last month for the first time in 238 years, it drew a lot of attention. But there have been quiet moves to stop using paper checks as well. The government stopped sending out most paper checks to recipients a...
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Chernobyl's Protective Shield Can No Longer Confine Radiation, UN Nuclear Watchdog Says
"A structure designed to prevent radioactive leakage at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine is no longer operational," reports Politico, "after Russian drones targeted it earlier this year, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog has found."
[T]he large steel structure "lost its primary safety funct...
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