June 19, 2019
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“Goodbye, 20th Century!” — Andy Zax
““Goodbye, 20th Century!”: How Stupidity, Incompetence, Obsolescence, Carelessness, Greed, Malfeasance, Lazy Lawyers And A Basic Misunderstanding Of Physics…”
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Three ways of understanding the world
“P-E Gobry has a narrow view of what science is: [L]et me explain what science actually is. Science is the process through which we derive reliable predictive…”
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“(Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) Peter Saville was 22 years old, fresh out of college and ready for the opportunity that presented itself. “At that age, no…”
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How modern life is transforming the human skeleton
“It all started with a goat. The unfortunate animal was born in the Netherlands in the spring of 1939 – and his prospects did not look good. On the left side of…”
June 13, 2019
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Welcome to the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
“It’s not just a look. Photographer: Keystone/Hulton Archive Photographer: Keystone/Hulton Archive In 1998, science fiction author David Brin published a…”
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A thriving architecture scene rises in Toronto
“Architecture | 1 day ago | By A thriving architecture scene rises in Toronto King Toronto by Bjarke Ingels Group BIG is bringing something novel to an old…”
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Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read – The Atlantic – Pocket
“”Discarded Treasures” Photo by John Frederick Peto / Getty Pamela Paul’s memories of reading are less about words and more about the experience. “I almost…”
May 28, 2019
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“David Milch in the converted garage of his bungalow, in Santa Monica. Photograph by Ryan Pfluger for The New Yorker David Milch, the television writer, lives…”
May 24, 2019
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The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet – OneZero
“This is also what the internet is becoming: a dark forest Yancey Strickler May 20 Photo by Rosie Fraser on Unsplash In his sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem…”
May 20, 2019
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How our commitment to consumers and our planet led us to use GM soy
“By Pat Brown , CEO & Founder of Impossible Foods Impossible Foods May 16 Starting later this month, some of the soy protein used in the Impossible Burger will…”
May 18, 2019
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What Pop Culture Misunderstands About Serial Killers
“Photo: MGM Retired FBI agent John E. Douglas is no stranger to Hollywood. Over the past three decades, his groundbreaking work as a criminal profiler has…”
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Scientists Created Bacteria With a Synthetic Genome. Is This Artificial Life?
“matter In a milestone for synthetic biology, colonies of E. coli thrive with DNA constructed from scratch by humans, not nature. A colored scanning electron…”
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AGI Has Been Delayed – Rodney Brooks
“A very recent article follows in the footsteps of many others talking about how the promise of autonomous cars on roads is a little further off than many…”
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The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones
“Game of Thrones, in its eighth and final season, is as big as television gets these days. More than 17 million people watched the season’s opening. Judging by…”
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When 2019 Was the Future | Filmmaker Magazine
“Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Running Man (courtesy of Olive Films) by Joanne McNeil in Columns , Issues on Mar 14, 2019 The artist David Levine once staged…”
May 16, 2019
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“It takes a unique combination of dumb and evil to call 911 because an alert about a missing child roused you from your sleep. I don’t know who these people are,…”
May 10, 2019
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“This tweet made me think a lot:
First of all, as much as I hate this idea, I think this notion is correct. This trend has been happening for a long time, and…”
May 5, 2019
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“John L’Heureux, who died on April 22, 2019, at the age of eighty-four, asked for the following essay to accompany “The Escape,” his story in this week’s issue…”
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Blockchain Hype Missed the Mark, and Not by a Little
“Bitcoin’s glory has been a bit tarnished by the bursting of its price bubble since late 2017. But enthusiasm for blockchain technology is still going strong,…”
May 4, 2019
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You Know What? Go Ahead and Use the Hotel Wi-Fi
“As you travel this holiday season, bouncing from airport to airplane to hotel, you’ll likely find yourself facing a familiar quandary: Do I really trust this…”
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A Regulatory Framework for the Internet
“This week, when the U.K.’s Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the Secretary of State for the Home Department released a white paper…”
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Advice on starting a microgrant program
“I ran a personal microgrant program called Helium Grants for two years. After reading ~4,000 applications and awarding nearly $40,000 in grants to 26 people,…”
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Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden
“By Melanie Hamlett May 2, 2019 Kylie-Anne Kelly can’t remember the exact moment she became her boyfriend’s one and only, his what would I do without you , but…”
May 3, 2019
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Meet the Guy Tasked With Archiving Prince’s Entire Vault
“Prince. Photo: Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images Tucked away deep inside a maximum-security storage facility in Hollywood, the contents of Prince’s storied vault…”
April 29, 2019
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“But unseen barriers do. Devon Price Mar 23, 2018 Photo by Scott Webb, courtesy of Unsplash I’ve been a psychology professor since 2012. In the past six years,…”
April 27, 2019
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A Tiny House Overflowing With Ideas in Toronto’s West End | Designlines
“A Mini Bloorcourt Home Overflowing with Big Ideas This teeny house is a fixture of the Bloor and Dufferin neighbourhood. The previous tenant, an artist, painted…”
April 24, 2019
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The Instagram Aesthetic Is Over
“okawa somchai / Shutterstock As Instagram has grown to more than 1 billion monthly users , it has ushered in a very particular look: bright walls , artfully…”
April 20, 2019
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A Technical and Cultural Assessment of the Mueller Report PDF | PDF Association
“What can we learn about the Mueller Report from the PDF file released by the Department of Justice on April 18, 2019? This article offers two things: a brief,…”
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A Sunny Saturday at Brooklyn’s Most Instagrammable Intersection
“At Dumbo’s most photogenic street corner. Photo: itzellemed/Instagram The Empire State Building peeks through the Manhattan Bridge’s arches at the corner of…”
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Why Joy Division? Henry Rollins examines Jon Savage’s oral history of the post-punk band
“Jon Savage’s “This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else” documents the formation, brief life and sudden end of the phenomenal Manchester, England, band…”