Stewart Brand: 4 environmental 'heresies'

Hans Rosling: The magic washing machine

Dictionary set 1 (19 words)

1). Bedridden - Confined to bed by sickness or old age (adjective)
Example: I want to address it now before it becomes a real problem and you have to be bedridden for 2 months

2). Isomorphic - (biology) similarity or identity of form or shape or structure

3). Anhedonia - is the technical name for a diminished ability to experience satisfaction and pleasure.

4). ROFL -  is an internet accronmym for Rolling On Floor Laughing

5). Logograms - meaning that one written sign stands for a whole word.

6). Feral - organism os one that has changed from being domesticated to being wild or untamed.
Example: Many of whom went feral and wild because they had no natural predator.

7). Piety - The quality of being religions or reverent

8). Sediment - Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; dregs

9). Homage - Special honor or respect shown publicly

10). Mere  - This is solely or no more or better than what is specified

11). Obscure - Not discovered or known about; uncertain
Example: Da Gama's origins are obscure

12). Diffuse - Spread or cause to spread over a wide area or among a large number of people.
Example: Most of the people in Columbia lived in diffuse villages.

13). Figment - A thing that someone believes to be real but that exists only in their imagination.
Example: It's a figment that he is using to evoke something that happening around the world

14). Advent - The arrival of a notable person, thing or event.

15).  Predicament - A difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation.

16). Conjecture - An opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information.
Example: I would agree with Mike's conjecture

17). Hinterland - The often uncharted areas beyond a coastal district or a river's banks.

18). Omission -  Someone or something that has been left out or excluding

19). Heuristic - Enabling a person to discover or learn something for themselves.

List of Freely Available Books

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books

The TTY demystified

There is great article about TTY - The TTY demystified

MYSQL: remove duplicates from table

Here is one line to remove duplicate records from database. I just run similar query for 6M records.

ALTER IGNORE TABLE mytable ADD UNIQUE INDEX(user_id,name);

TED: Hans Rosling: Global population growth, box by box

The Little Book of Semaphores

The Little Book of Semaphores

The Physics of Spin: Sputnik Politics and American Physicists in the 1950s

Here is good article by MIT historian David Kaiser - http://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www/Kaiser.PhysSpin.pdf