development
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4 Billion People Are Still Without Internet
The United Nations’ Broadband Commission has published a new report whose headline finding is that 57 per cent of the human population — or around 4.2 billion people — will still not have access to the internet by the end of 2015.
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Women Really Don’t Notice Details About Your Penis
We’ve seen it in study after study: men worry about what their penis looks like. Is it too short? Too long? Too thin? Is the glans too fat? Will that birthmark be a deal breaker? Relax. A study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine last month suggests that women don’t really notice those details.
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Here’s How Men Make 200 Million Sperm Every Day
Human testes are masters of mass production, spitting out sperm at a rate of 200 million per day. But that doesn’t mean the process is fast — it takes 64 days to make a sperm. The organ keeps the count high with an assembly-line anatomy that scales up sperm development from a trickle to a…
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Does 18F Pass The Bechdel Test For Tech?
18F is a group within the US General Services Administration that builds digital services for government. Recently, they asked whether their code passed the “Bechdel test” for tech. Here’s what they found.