Month: June 2019
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 21, 2019
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Children of Time (Adrian Tchaikovsky, 2015)
This is the kind of Sci-Fi I love. Really out there in terms of concepts. Some brain-stretching ideas, but still enough character development that you care about the people (and such) involved rather than just the ideas.
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…”
June 8, 2019
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Borderless (Eliot Peper, 2018)
Second in the Analog techno-thriller series. In a not too distant future, ultra-hackers manipulate the world to stop the world from being manipulated.Or something like that.