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The Telegraph says that after more than a decade of "virtually unfettered immigration", the U.K. "is desperately overcrowded" and public concern is not xenophobia or racism.
Author David Rieff laments the rise of “fast thought” in books and decrease of works written in the spirit of scholarly investigation, not just to illustrate a thesis.
Retired intelligence officer Paul R. Pillar says the U.S. should try harder to curb the export of terrorists — particularly homegrown ones — and terrorism from its own territory.
More fast growth among global for-profit universities seems probable and the number of globally mobile students is likely to surge as higher education's globalization continues.
Publishing houses are more relevant than ever in the digital era, says Ursula Mackenzie, chair of the U.K. Trade Publishers Council. And demand for print works remains very strong.
Near where I live in Berkeley, the country’s first four-year Muslim college just started its first semester. Zaytuna College, which for the time being is run out of the American […]
With brain scans, scientists have learned much about what happens in our heads during sleep, but they still can't answer the simple question: why do we sleep?
I can't say enough good things about Deborah Blum's "The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York." It's an fast-paced narrative that mixes […]
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"Most people don’t use C++ anywhere near as well as it could be used."
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Stroustrup shares some secrets about his work habits.
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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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"Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language."
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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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In the late 1970s, Stroustrup applied the idea of "classes" to the C programming language to create a new language that allows for high level abstraction—but is efficient and close […]
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A conversation with the creator of C++.
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Many of the brain's functions are designed to initiate a response to a detected imbalance. As our bodies strive to maintain homeostasis, our brains send signals that make us do […]
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Our main mode of control has to do with our degree of knowledge and our understanding of the world. As we change what we know about the world, we change […]
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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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An emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body. Its purpose is to make life more survivable by taking care of a danger or taking […]