I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (3 April 2016)

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In the 1910s, in the early days of film, women dominated action movies. What happened? Great pieces on The Hazards of Helen, The Perils of Pauline, and other forgotten shows, by Adrienne LaFrance

The Nameless Mouse Behind the Largest-Ever Neural Network. By Katie Palmer

This is a wonderful story by Chris Baraniuk about Jennifer Null and other people whose names break databases

“I’ve seen the greatest AI minds of my generation destroyed by Twitter.” By Anthony Lydgate

Wonderful piece by Maggie Koerth-Baker on the (il)legitimacy of dinosaur names

Is Ebola hiding in the eyes of

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