July 19, 2019
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July 18, 2019
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Archivists race to digitize slavery records before the history is lost
“Sierra Leone Public Archive, Freetown, Sierra Leone, February 2019. Credit: Courtesy of Kartikay Chadha/Visual Analytics Laboratory, OCAD University Abu Koroma…”
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Momentum isn’t magic – vindicating the hot hand with the mathematics of streaks
“It’s NCAA basketball tournament season, known for its magical moments and the “March Madness” it can produce. Many fans remember Stephen Curry’s superhuman 2008…”
July 12, 2019
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Shopify and the Power of Platforms
“While I am (rightfully) teased about how often I discuss Aggregation Theory , there is a method to my madness, particularly over the last year: more and more…”
July 10, 2019
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Hands that speak | How we communicate without words
“Hands that speak Thea Lenarduzzi considers how we communicate without words THEA LENARDUZZI In April 2008, the democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama…”
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Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost
“From about 1550 to 1850, a global cold snap called the Little Ice Age supersized glaciers throughout the Arctic. On Canada’s Ellesmere Island, Teardrop Glacier…”
July 9, 2019
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What the Measles Epidemic Really Says About America
“Edmon De Haro I n two essays, “Illness as Metaphor” in 1978 and “AIDS and Its Metaphors” in 1988, the critic Susan Sontag observed that you can learn a lot…”
July 8, 2019
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Baby name trends: move aside Craig and Gemma, it’s time for Jaxon and Aria
“Clockwise from top left: Gemma Arterton, Craig David, Kirsty Wark and Lee Evans.Photograph: Getty Images It could be curtains for Craig. One of the most popular…”
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Progressive Boomers Are Making It Impossible For Cities To Fix The Housing Crisis
“Illustration: HuffPost; Photos: Getty SEATTLE — In May 2018, a public meeting in a wealthy enclave of one of America’s most progressive cities devolved into a…”
July 7, 2019
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Toronto’s ghost signs: Where to find traces of century-old ads
“Toronto, 1906: Signs for Tona-Cola, Bovril and hand-made watches stand on a building opposite Old City Hall. Connor-Ruddy, an outdoor ad company later renamed…”
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This psychologist explains why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit
“At 16, Huwe Burton confessed to killing his mother. He was still in shock from discovering her body when New York City police began to interrogate him. After…”
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Are you really the ‘real’ you?
“Blue sky thinking: can we change the ‘narrator’ at the centre of our lives?Illustration: Michelle Thompson Alex was a bouncer when he changed his mind about who…”
July 1, 2019
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Why plants don’t die from cancer
“Chernobyl has become a byword for catastrophe. The 1986 nuclear disaster, recently brought back into the public eye by the hugely popular TV show of the same…”
June 30, 2019
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They said books were dead, they were wrong: Adrian Shaughnessy on a decade of Unit Editions
“News / Opinion AddThis Sharing Buttons 18 4 Adrian Shaughnessy founded Unit Editions with Tony Brook and Patricia Finegan in 2009. Since then, the studio has…”
June 28, 2019
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There’s a Legal Loophole That May Leave Some of Rock’s Greatest Riffs Up for Grabs
“The Legal Loophole That May Leave Some of Rock’s Greatest Riffs Up for Grabs By Vernon Silver June 20, 2019 In a little-noticed moment during Led Zeppelin’s…”
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How the news took over reality
“T he afternoon of Friday 13 November 2015 was a chilly one in Manhattan, but that only made the atmosphere inside the Old Town Bar, one of the city’s oldest…”
June 27, 2019
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Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think
“Luci Gutiérrez “I t’s not true that no one needs you anymore.” These words came from an elderly woman sitting behind me on a late-night flight from Los Angeles…”
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The Internet Has Made Dupes—and Cynics—of Us All
“Online fakery runs wide and deep, but you don’t need me to tell you that. New species of digital fraud and deception come to light almost every week, if not…”
June 23, 2019
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Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence: The 3,100-mile race around a New York block
“Many competitors say they have out of body experiences during the race It is a race so long that runners need a haircut during it. They can get through 20 pairs…”
June 22, 2019
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Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry
“R ecently, Recently, a musician signed to a major indie label told me they were owed up to $40,000 in song royalties they would never be able to collect. It…”
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Anna Biller’s Pleasure Principles
“Anna Biller’s Pleasure Principles On Film / Interviews —May 29, 2019 I n Anna Biller’s vibrantly colored fantasias, there’s not a glimmer of a sequin that…”
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“Chuck Berry, 1958. Skip to contentSkip to site index Feature It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew. This is…”
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…”