Month: August 2016
August 31, 2016
August 30, 2016
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Death Cab For Bieber (which I mean as a compliment)
August 29, 2016
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Five Questions for Steven Pinker – Undark
T he Undark Five — that would be five questions that we put to researchers who are influential, provocative, sometimes controversial — premiers this month with Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker . Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology, where he conducts…
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A Powerful Russian Weapon: The Spread of False Stories
August 28, 2016
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MTV’s fake film house style deadens everything. I don’t get it.
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I love Key & Peele but this is not working
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😺
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The eighties are alive at VMAs
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Watching the VMA for wardrobe ideas
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The Millennial Whoop
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The Price of Solar Is Declining to Unprecedented Lows
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/the-price-of-solar-is-declining-to-unprecedented-lows/
August 27, 2016
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A “Star Trek” Episode Shows the Next Phase of Human Communication
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/06/star-trek-tng-and-the-limits-of-language-shaka-when-the-walls-fell/372107/
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The mystery of why you can’t remember being a baby
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160726-the-mystery-of-why-you-cant-remember-being-a-baby
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This all sounds SO familiar if you’ve read Stephen Baxter’s novel “Proxima”
http://www.newyorker.com/elements/annals-of-the-future-world/an-exoplanet-too-far
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Lasers Might One Day Power Ship to Closest Alien Planet
http://www.livescience.com/55900-proxima-b-interstellar-spaceflight-technologies.html#sthash.MRBEssbF.uxfs&st_refDomain=&st_refQuery=
August 26, 2016
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Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.
Uh, the full quote: pic.twitter.com/63ru83r3uL
— Ishaan Tharoor (@ishaantharoor) August 26, 2016
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Last week’s Frank Ocean releases are starting to make a weird kind of sense
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Here’s why new music comes out on Fridays now instead of Tuesdays
http://www.wired.com/2016/08/new-music-fridays-why/?mbid=social_twitter
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Did You Know The Props On ‘Melrose Place’ Were Covert Works Of Art With Coded Meanings?
http://gothamist.com/2016/08/25/melrose_place_coded_props.php
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Twenty-three years of being a dad and I still have days I feel incompetent
August 23, 2016
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sick burn bro
Up and to church without my wife, she being all dirty, as my house is.
— Samuel Pepys (@samuelpepys) August 23, 2016
August 22, 2016
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Beauty Industry To Consumers: ‘You Like Short Hair Now’
http://www.theonion.com/article/beauty-industry-consumers-you-short-hair-now-53564
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A solid attempt at an impossible task. Loads of non-obvious but highly supportable inclusions.
Presenting The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s https://t.co/WCP03JfHmD
— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) August 22, 2016
August 21, 2016
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Frank Ocean is a genius
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Most Popular Theories of Consciousness Are Worse Than Wrong
According to medieval medicine, laziness is caused by a build-up of phlegm in the body. The reason? Phlegm is a viscous substance. Its oozing motion is analogous to a sluggish disposition. The phlegm theory has more problems than just a few factual errors. After all, suppose you had a beaker of…