Month: July 2017
July 18, 2017
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Yes, There Have Been Aliens – NYTimes.com
Gérard DuBois LAST month astronomers from the Kepler spacecraft team announced the discovery of 1,284 new planets, all orbiting stars outside our solar system. The total number of such “exoplanets” confirmed via Kepler and other methods now stands at more than 3,000. This represents a revolution in…
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July 17, 2017
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Yessss! I am now a proud patron of Buster Benson on @patreon, and you should be too: #NewPatron
https://patreon.com/busterbenson?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=tyshare2
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I’ve largely avoided Trump/Russia stuff, but this timeline of last summer puts it all in perspective.
https://n.pr/2uj57m5
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I’m diggin’ Kevin Garrett
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July 16, 2017
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Pingu! Pingu!
July 15, 2017
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A great overview of the explosive growth of my King-Spadina neighbourhood.
I love it down here.
https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/toronto/king-spadina-growth-condos/article35680761/?ref=https://www.theglobeandmail.com&service=mobile
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Today! pic.twitter.com/rUmmfhUhEb
July 14, 2017
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Nodding my head to French Montana’s “Hotel Bathroom” at Starbucks. Not exactly Dylanesque, but I’m cool with that.
https://genius.com/French-montana-hotel-bathroom-lyrics
July 13, 2017
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#larsenc iceberg vs Friday drive to the cottage pic.twitter.com/AZQ4dTRl9r
July 12, 2017
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Don’t Tell The Kids, But Bedtime Is A Social Construct | FiveThirtyEight
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Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg
http://www.projectmidas.org/blog/calving/
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Interesting. “Bird” as adjective and “hippie” as noun.
Today, I’d say “hippie” is usually an adjective. Fashion statement not identity.
— Peanuts On This Day (@Peanuts50YrsAgo) July 12, 2017
July 11, 2017
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The rise of the McModern
https://www.curbed.com/2017/6/30/15893836/what-is-mcmansion-hell-modern-suburbs-history
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If Buddhist Monks Trained AI
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/06/how-do-buddhist-monks-think-about-the-trolley-problem/532092/
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“money-with-wings” is a weird thing to have an emoji for if you think about it.
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I’d say we’re a year or two away from visual evidence no longer being proof of anything.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/07/what-do-you-do-when-you-cannot-believe-your-own-eyes/533154/
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🚀Augmented Reality
🚀Voice OSs
🚀Autonomous Vehicles (cars, drones)
🚀Sharing/Gig Economy
🚀Machine Learning
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I’m still wait-and-see on VR, but AR is obviously going to change the world.
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My dad in 1959. H might have been a time-travelling hipster. pic.twitter.com/VovcVihS4r
July 10, 2017
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Swear to god – at first glance – I thought that was a fidget spinner
Watch me go. Preview my #Jupiter close approach with a real-time simulation using @NASA_Eyes data: https://t.co/crxjVC5m3g
— NASA's Juno Mission (@NASAJuno) July 10, 2017
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Write for 7,500 hours, Then Hit Post
https://shift.newco.co/write-for-7-500-hours-then-hit-post-561c0c19be2c
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Scan photo, zoom, google. Voila. pic.twitter.com/CktlwPQIuq
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Look, it’s a rural Dürer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Piece_of_Turf
July 9, 2017
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I’ve been an Amazon customer for TWENTY years.
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Why Honeybees Are The Wrong Problem To Solve
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/06/13/532729268/why-honeybees-are-the-wrong-problem-to-solve
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I asked my mother to give me a story for each of the pictures in our family album. Here’s one. pic.twitter.com/R4wM4xMiEs
