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  1. Ask HN: Aids to Learn Engineering Management

    I was recently promoted to be the head of a fifteen person engineering group that has multiple projects going on, some of them very blue sky research and some of them hardcore spaceflight engineering design. I suck at…

    1 points 1
  2. Ask HN: Best first language for a budding MechE

    My 21 year old daughter has come to realize she doesn’t like her chosen profession (nursing) and wants to become a mechanical engineer. She’s started to take introductory math and engineering classes. And to this end,…

    1 points 4
  3. Boontling, California's Obscure Dialect (en.wikipedia.org)
    2 points 1
  4. The “ropen” of New Guinea – bats or pterodactyls? (genesispark.com)
    6 points 1
  5. Hagia Sophia to be turned back into mosque (washingtonpost.com)
    1 points 0
  6. Apple begins buying carbon-neutral aluminum (reuters.com)
    2 points 1
  7. Apple to use carbon-neutral aluminum (macrumors.com)
    1 points 0
  8. Bob Ballard to Investigate Amelia Earhart Disappearance (washingtonpost.com)
    1 points 0
  9. Perennial grains could be a climate change weapon, if researchers increase yield (washingtonpost.com)
    2 points 0
  10. Ask HN: Best way to offset personal carbon emissions

    I'm interested in offsetting my carbon emissions for flights, commuting, etc. I know there are services out there that offer to sell offsets, but I don't know which are effective and reputable.

    1 points 3
  11. Ask HN: Personal carbon offsets

    I’m interested in attempting a carbon-neutral life. I’ve noticed that Enterprise car rental has an option to buy a carbon offset for a car rental for a surprisingly small fee (less than $2 a day). And one can also…

    6 points 6
  12. Is this mysterious stone a clue to the ‘Lost Colony’ of Roanoke? (washingtonpost.com)
    1 points 1
  13. Ask HN: What's the strangest place you wrote code?
    49 points 65
  14. This 1,000-Year-Old Shirt Has a $700,000 Story to Tell (nytimes.com)
    3 points 0
  15. DARPA and NASA are building robotic spacecraft to service satellites on orbit (washingtonpost.com)
    3 points 1
  16. Ask HN: Good books on societal technological challenges for English majors

    I've been asked by a friend (a philsophy professor at a small liberal arts school) for recommendations for books on “technology and society” for an undergraduate honors colloquium he is teaching next semester. I'm sort…

    2 points 2
  17. New climate change calculations could buy the Earth some time – if they’re right (washingtonpost.com)
    2 points 0
  18. Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu)
    1 points 0