Month: May 2019
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 26, 2019
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World of Trouble (Ben H Winters, 2014)
Last book of the “Detective at the end of the world” series “The Last Policeman”. The planet will only exist for another two weeks, but there are mysteries that need to be resolved before we reach the end.Lovely. Wraps the series up beautifully.
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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The Hunting Party (Lucy Foley, 2019)
I think there is a name for this type of murder mystery, but can’t come up with it. A group of people is off somewhere isolated (in this case a hunting cabin in the north of England). A murder happens and everyone becomes a suspect.It’s a decent example of the genre, whatever it’s called.
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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 8, 2019
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Delta-v (Daniel Suarez, 2019)
Suarez writes great techno-thrillers but this is not one of his most thrilling. His tech is often based on some real-world concept (drones, DNA editing, etc.) that he wildly extrapolates and then he drops happless victims into the mix.Here he’s taken more of a “hard SF” approach to things, doing a detailed analysis of how asteroid mining might work. It’s interesting enough, but long on details and (relatively) short on thrills.
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…”