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News Wire Stories for February 2014

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Is the Universe Made of Math?

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-the-universe-made-of-math-excerpt

The Art of Box Making

http://hackaday.com/2013/12/31/the-art-of-box-making/
http://inventorartist.com/box-making/

A Kids' Book Where Every Character Can Be 3-D Printed

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/12/characters-come-alive-in-this-3-d-printable-book/?viewall=true

Why Do Most Programming Languages only Return a Single Value from a Function?

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/why-do-most-programming-languages-only-return-a-single-value-from-a-function/

It Works! A Tiny Speaker Printed on a Single Sheet of Paper

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/12/a-tiny-speaker-made-out-of-paper/?viewall=true

As Engineers, We Must Consider the Ethical Implications of our Work

Engineers are behind government spying tools and military weapons. We should be conscious of how our designs are used.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/05/engineering-moral-effects-technology-impact

Exploring Canvas Drawing Techniques [in HTML5/JavaScript]

http://perfectionkills.com/exploring-canvas-drawing-techniques/

To What Extent Do We See with Mathematics?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/11/27/to-what-extent-do-we-see-with-mathematics/

How Do Languages Count? And Are Languages with Restricted Number Systems "Primitive"?

http://www.geocurrents.info/cultural-geography/linguistic-geography/languages-count-languages-restricted-number-systems-primitive

JavaScript has problems. Do we need Dart to solve them?

http://arstechnica.com/business/2011/10/javascript-has-problems-can-googles-dart-solve-them/

Why More Women Conference Speakers?

http://www.ultrasaurus.com/2014/01/women-conference-speakers/

Raspberry Pi and Primary Computing

Excellent comparison of the Pi in classrooms with alternatives.
http://www.simonhaughton.co.uk/2014/01/raspberry-pi-and-primary-computing.html

Internet Users Ditch "password" as Password, Upgrade to "123456"

Contest for most commonly used terrible password has a new champion: 123456.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/internet-users-ditch-password-as-password-upgrade-to-123456/

The Whole Story Behind Low AP CS Exam Stats

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/01/20/1319213/the-whole-story-behind-low-ap-cs-exam-stats

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