May 6, 2021
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David Brin on the Moon, Mars & Technological Evolution in the 21st Century
“Tim Ventura Feb 17, 2020 · 12 min read America is going back to the Moon, but we should be pushing further out into the solar system — and we have the…”
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Opinion | The Wind and Solar Boom Is Here
“Farhad Manjoo The Wind and Solar Boom Is Here April 29, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Credit… Werner Bachmeier/Visum, via Redux By Opinion Columnist Just one word,…”
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How Parasocial Relationships Have Defined The Tech Industry
“In my mind, the parasocial relationship – where someone develops a totally one-sided relationship with someone who has little or no idea they exist – may be the…”
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“My grandfather had a painting, never prominently displayed, of a decrepit graveyard in the dead of night. Its tombstones were musty and unreadable. A crypt…”
May 5, 2021
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“100 ‘Schitt’s Creek’ (Pop TV, 2015-2020) Photo : POP TV Having lost his fortune after being bled dry by a business manager, video-store mogul John Rose and his…”
May 4, 2021
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Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp employees quitting
“I. At 8AM PT on Friday, a bleary-eyed Basecamp CEO Jason Fried gathered his remote workforce together on Zoom to apologize. Four days earlier, he had thrown the…”
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Inside the ‘Tartarian Empire,’ the QAnon of Architecture
“In 1908, architect Ernest Flagg completed the Singer Building in Lower Manhattan, a Beaux-Arts showstopper made for the Singer sewing machine company. From a…”
May 3, 2021
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There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing
“It’s the neglected middle child of mental health, and can dull your motivation and focus. It may be the dominant emotion of 2021. Credit… Manshen Lo By April…”
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Reaching ‘Herd Immunity’ Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe
“Widely circulating coronavirus variants and persistent hesitancy about vaccines will keep the goal out of reach. The virus is here to stay, but vaccinating the…”
May 2, 2021
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Post-vaccination Inertia Is Real
“Health Readjusting our ideas about what’s safe is going to take time. Katherine J. Wu 12:44 PM ET Shutterstock / The Atlantic On my kitchen wall hangs a very…”
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How Canada can prevent a fourth COVID-19 wave?
“People get the COVID-19 vaccine at a mobile clinic for members of First Nations and their partners in Montreal on April 30, 2021. Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian…”
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How the pandemic led to a rental car crisis just as Americans are ready to bust loose
“Avis Budget Group’s stock price closed at an all-time high on Friday, a sign that rental car companies’ fleet-shrinking strategies are paying off financially —…”
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Opinion | How the N-Word Became Unsayable
“Guest Essay How the N-Word Became Unsayable April 30, 2021, 7:57 a.m. ET By Dr. McWhorter is a linguist who has written extensively about both race and…”
April 30, 2021
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Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math.
“Strangely, although we feel as if we sweep through time on the knife-edge between the fixed past and the open future, that edge — the present — appears nowhere…”
April 28, 2021
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These Materials Could Make Science Fiction a Reality
“Currents Metamaterials, which could improve smartphones and change how we use other technology, allow scientists to control light waves in new ways. Credit……”
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On Social Media, American-Style Free Speech Is Dead
“Major platforms’ policies aren’t actually inspired by the First Amendment. This legal scholar says that’s a good thing. American social media platforms have…”
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The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion?
“T owards the end of a conversation dwelling on some of the deepest metaphysical puzzles regarding the nature of human existence, the philosopher Galen Strawson…”
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🚨 What really happened at Basecamp
“I. The controversy that embroiled enterprise software maker Basecamp this week began more than a decade ago, with a simple list of customers. Around 2009,…”
April 17, 2021
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Most of Canada is in a punishing third wave. How did it come to this? – Macleans.ca
“After a year of struggling with this pandemic, science has developed a relatively good grasp of COVID-19. We know that it is difficult to catch the virus from…”
April 15, 2021
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100 Greatest Korean Films Ever | koreanscreen.com
“Read 100-51 100 Greatest Korean Films Ever (50-1) 50. Christmas in August (1998) Hur Jin-ho While blending a premature death with a romantic liaison may seem a…”
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“This week’s newsletter continues to explore how technology changes the distribution of rewards in different professions. Earlier pieces on this topic include:…”
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In the New Digital Economy, Are Artists Creators?
“It’s possible to chart phases of Internet culture by which words are used to describe its main participants. In the 2000s there were “bloggers,” the first…”
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What Traffic Enforcement Without Police Could Look Like
“Because traffic stops all too often escalate into deadly incidents, calls have grown to disentangle traffic enforcement from police—and a measure to do so has…”
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How a Burst of Light in the Sky Illuminated Something Primal
“Screenland Videos of a mysterious celestial phenomenon captured a once-common human emotion: awe at the wonder of the heavens. Credit… Photo illustration by…”
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The Repugnant Conclusion is a puzzle that has occupied philosophers and economists for decades.
“It may be time to move on from the Repugnant Conclusion. This week, the journal Utilitas is publishing our multi-author statement . Dean Spears 2 days ago · 10…”
April 13, 2021
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Interview: Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe
“In addition to being a friend and a Noahpinion subscriber, Patrick Collison is one of the world’s most successful founder-CEOs. Along with his co-founder and…”
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“The Tiger Phenomenon Somewhere, right now, in Silicon Valley… “So how about these Tiger guys eh?” “Hah! You’re telling me — I heard they did [Deal X] in 24…”
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“Pedestrians! Me: Craig . This: Ridgeline . My walk starting in May is currently a spreadsheet. I use spreadsheets for all of my big walks. A peanut gallery…”
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Is content moderation a dead end? — Benedict Evans
“In the late 1990s, Microsoft was the evil empire, and a big part of ‘evil’ was that it was too closed – it made things too hard for developers. But then came…”
April 12, 2021
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Tech keeps trying to ‘fix’ recipe sites. Food bloggers wish they’d stop.
“”Your favorite recipes without the ads or life stories.” That was the tagline for a site called Recipeasly when it launched in February. In its first iteration,…”