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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 25 – August 24, 2015 800 stories · Vol. 15 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 236 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away from Bad Diets

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    How language gives your brain a break

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Sports

    Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    A Bestseller Book That Didn't Exist

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 38 stories

  1. Coca-Cola Funds Scientists Who Shift Blame for Obesity Away from Bad Diets

  2. Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control

  3. China Stock Market Drops 8.5%

  4. Landlords are trying not to rent to startups in San Francisco

Show 10 more
  1. Index Funds May Work a Little Too Well

  2. Federal Judge Strikes Down Idaho ‘Ag-Gag Law’

  3. Why Not Insider Trade on Every Company?

  4. Startup Metrics

  5. A LinkedIn Hack That Led to a $120k Investment

  6. ‘Sea Slaves’: The human misery that feeds pets and livestock

  7. LLVM Foundation Granted 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Status

  8. China stocks drop over 8%

  9. Oil Falls Below $40 for First Time Since 2009 as Glut Grows

  10. How putting $10M into UBeam illustrates what is wrong with tech investing (2014)

Sports 39 stories

  1. Assembly 2015 demo party winning entry

  2. I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10

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  1. Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win

  2. Twitter Contest Winning as a Service

  3. Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth

  4. Windows Bridge for iOS

  5. Designing and Building Stockfighter, Our Programming Game

  6. Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

Technology 610 stories

  1. Firefox exploit found in the wild

  2. Jeff Bezos and the Amazon Way

  3. G is for Google

Show 9 more
  1. “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this”

  2. OnHub

  3. The Web We Have to Save

  4. Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace

  5. Bootstrap 4 alpha

  6. “It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed”

  7. Hardware Reverse Engineering Course

  8. In Iraq, I raided insurgents. In Virginia, the police raided me

  9. Eve Version 0

Entertainment 38 stories

  1. Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child

  2. Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Tonic – A data visualizing REPL for Node.js

  2. Show HN: Image Processing for Everybody

  3. Why Can't Streaming Services Get Classical Music Right?

  4. Netflix Releases Falcor Developer Preview

  5. From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of Earth

  6. Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack

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