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A library of interviews with the world’s biggest thinkers.
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Stroustrup talks about exciting trends in technology and about how the efficiency of C++ is helping save the environment.
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The future of programming is a language with a unified set of guidelines for how to combine different programming paradigms.
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C should have been integrated as a subset of C++, says Stroustrup.
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A conversation with the creator of C++.
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We have brains because they optimize our bodies’ survival. Meanwhile, the body itself is the border in the translation service that will allow the outside world to come into the […]
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While our own personal histories happen one event at a time, our brains make sense of our lives by stringing these events together in an structured way.
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A conversation with the behavioral neurobiologist.
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Instead of recording every event in your life, the brain records conjunctions of the occurrence of certain events. Out of the conjunction, it can then replay and reconstruct.
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Parents need to wean themselves off of the idea that they must be constantly available to their child and vice versa.
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Author Lenore Skenazy is tired of helicopter parents messing up their kids.
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At some point in the past thirty years it became taboo to let your kids play outside without supervision. What's with that?
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Lenore Skenazy, who advocates for the free-range kids style of parenting, helps you learn to stop over-obsessing about your children.
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Things have improved tremendously for LGBT youth since Testone was young, but there are still plenty of kids without supportive families who come to New York and end up homeless.
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At first,Testone feared coming out to her friends would shatter the narrative she had created in high school. Looking back, she calls that fear internalized homophobia.