Month: August 2019
August 31, 2019
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Just heard someone on their phone say, “we’re just by the Starbucks across from the Shoppers Drugmart.”
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Airshows seem extravagantly wasteful and unnecessary these days.
August 28, 2019
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The Necessity of Nuclear – Reasons to be Cheerful
“My friend and frequent collaborator, Brian Eno, read my piece about the encouraging rise in divestment from fossil fuels and took issue with my concerns…”
August 27, 2019
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Seven Key Misconceptions about Evolutionary Psychology – Areo
“Evolutionary approaches to psychology hold the promise of revolutionizing the field and unifying it with the biological sciences. But among both academics and…”
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How Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition
“The main obstacle to overcoming meritocratic inequality is not technical but political. Today’s conditions induce discontent and widespread pessimism, verging…”
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2115: A 100-year Review of Ecomodernism
“A 100-year review of the movement that solved climate change and habitat destruction, and changed environmentalism forever.”
August 26, 2019
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“It’s no surprise that Succession got an Emmy nomination this year. Based on its appearance alone, it looks and feels like an Emmy contender in the Best Drama…”
August 22, 2019
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Breadboarding and Fat-Markering
“It’s important that we can move fast and cover a lot of different ideas without getting dragged down.”
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We Did It For The LOLs: 100 Favorite Funny Books
“The news cycle is driving us to the edge of madness, so why not switch off, unplug and pick up a book? We know you could use a laugh right now — and luckily,…”
August 19, 2019
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Forged in Bondage, Black Music is the Sound of Freedom
“No wonder everybody is always stealing it.”
August 14, 2019
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A retired teacher found some seahorses off Long Beach. Then he built a secret world for them
“Rog Hanson emerges from the coastal waters, pulls a diving regulator out of his mouth and pushes a scuba mask down around his neck. “Did you see her?” he says.…”
August 13, 2019
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A New Clue to How Life Originated
“Those spots, she realized, might help address a long-standing puzzle about the origin of life itself.”
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This Is the Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry
“There’s a famous Gandhi aphorism about how movements progress: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” That was…”
August 11, 2019
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This Land Is the Only Land There Is
“Climate change could make water even more scarce in naturally dry areas, the report warns. Australia’s ranchers have struggled under a drought for years. Brook…”
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I Wanted to Know What White Men Thought About Their Privilege. So I Asked.
“My college class asks what it means to be white in America — but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do.”
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“Cemeteries and funerals are beautiful, because they tell a story of the past that we care about. They’re also somewhat expensive: families routinely spend on…”
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“1905 Illustration by Frederic Dorr Steele Jeff Jarvis Jul 26 · 7 min read Disclosure: I raised money for my school from Facebook to aggregate signals of quality…”
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The Big Little Lie of the TV kitchen island
“I n In the first episode of the first season of Big Little Lies , the blended Mackenzie-Carlson family sits down to dinner together. Roast chicken, green beans,…”
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“Competitive advantage can be represented visually as one or more feedback loops. These create the advantage “flywheel” that maintain and grow a moat over time.”
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“As a kid in the ’80s, I hated the preppy craze. But did I really understand the book that started it? “The Official Preppy Handbook,” published in 1980, sold…”
August 10, 2019
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Why You Should Try Micromastery
“When I returned to London I told people about the beaches and baguettes in France, but I mostly wanted to talk about how I could now officially drive…”
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How Complex Systems Learn and Keep Learning
“”Civilizations with long nows look after things better,” says Brian Eno.”
August 9, 2019
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More hidden mothers in Victorian photography
“In 19th century photographs of children, you can sometimes spot a mother hiding.”
August 8, 2019
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“Mark Twain once wrote, “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.” According to historians, the groundwork for the New Gilded Age began in 1990. Nearly…”
August 7, 2019
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Always check the battery and spark plugs in your getaway vehicle BEFORE the getaway.
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You can’t stop mass shootings by punishing people with mental illnesses
“When President Trump declared Monday that people with mental illnesses should face “involuntary confinement,” if necessary, to prevent mass shootings, my heart…”