Month: August 2020
August 12, 2020
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Here’s Your Cheat Sheet to Happiness
“Professor Laurie Santos didn’t set out to create the most popular course in the history of Yale University and the most talked-about college course in America.…”
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Would breaking up ‘big tech’ work? What would? — Benedict Evans
“We’re clearly going to be arguing about the size, power and market share of large technology companies a great deal in the next couple of years. Many of the…”
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Do humans really have a killer instinct or is that just manly fancy? | Psyche Ideas
“Horrified by the atrocities of the 20th century, an array of scientists sought to explain why human beings turned to violence. The founder of psychoanalysis…”
August 11, 2020
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It Doesn’t Hurt, It Hurts All the Time | Jess Zimmerman
“On July 4, 2019, I was bitten by a dog. I was on the beach in Delaware with my family, and I asked for permission to pet a sweet-seeming buddy who reminded me…”
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“Wade Davis holds the Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. His award-winning books include “Into the…”
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Getting from November to January – The American Interest
“A lthough much attention has rightly been given to the importance of safeguarding the physical integrity of the vote in this year’s election, less attention has…”
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Developing New “Third Places” | City Journal
“We are living through perhaps the unhappiest period in half a century, one that offers good reasons to be gloomy. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and America’s…”
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New York and San Francisco Can’t Assume They’ll Bounce Back
“No bright lights here. Photographer: ANGELA WEISS/AFP Photographer: ANGELA WEISS/AFP Big cities are taking a big hit from the coronavirus pandemic. Statistics…”
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QAnon groups have millions of members on Facebook, documents show
“An internal investigation by Facebook has uncovered thousands of groups and pages, with millions of members and followers, that support the QAnon conspiracy…”
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Tech Companies Helped Foster Cancel Culture. They Should Have To Answer For It.
“We Aren’t Holding The Right People Responsible For Cancel Culture The way we talk on the internet is broken, but users are not the ones who broke it — tech…”
August 9, 2020
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“Until recently I had no idea that game engines are basically eating the world. Urban planning, architecture, automotive engineering firms, live music and…”
August 8, 2020
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Europe is going all in on hydrogen power. Why isn’t the US? | Grist
“Hauke-Christian Dittrich / Getty Images h2 no Europe is going all in on hydrogen power. Why isn’t the US? By on Aug 6, 2020 News on climate in the time of…”
August 7, 2020
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A Rift Over Carl Linnaeus Shows We Shouldn’t Idolize Scientists
“W e are living through a period of cultural upheaval. Around the world, statues of iconic men who held racist beliefs and committed racial injustices are being…”
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‘Lovecraft Country’: A Nightmare on Main Street
“Atticus “Tic” Freeman, the young Korean War veteran hero of HBO ’s fantastic — in every sense of the word — new drama Lovecraft Country , has a weakness for…”
August 6, 2020
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You Want to See My Data? I Thought We Were Friends! – Facts So Romantic – Nautilus
“Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. His new book, Science Fictions: How Fraud,…”
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How to drive fossil fuels out of the US economy, quickly
“The roof of the 96,000-square-foot “Circa” building on Platte Street in the Lower Highland neighborhood in Denver, Colorado, is covered by solar panels. Hyoung…”
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The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs
“Paywalls are justified, even though they are annoying. It costs money to produce good writing, to run a website, to license photographs. A lot of money, if you…”
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There’s no sharp distinction between cult and regular religion – Tara Isabella Burton | Aeon Essays
“Cults, generally speaking, are a lot like pornography: you know them when you see them. It would be hard to avoid the label on encountering (as I did, carrying…”
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Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Is an ‘Instant American Classic’ About Our Abiding Sin
“Books of The Times Credit… . Amazon Apple Books Barnes and Noble Books-A-Million Bookshop Indiebound When you purchase an independently reviewed book through…”
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Our cosmic horizon is both unreachable and closer than ever – Katie Mack | Aeon Essays
“Space, as they say, is big. In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979), Douglas Adams elaborates: ‘You may think it’s a long way down the road to the…”
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Toronto becoming even more of a tech hub as U.S. dominance wanes
“Tech Mira Miller Posted 3 hours ago Report Inaccuracy Toronto becoming even more of a tech hub as U.S. dominance wanes Tech Mira Miller Posted 3 hours ago…”
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How the pandemic might play out in 2021 and beyond
“June 2021. The world has been in pandemic mode for a year and a half. The virus continues to spread at a slow burn; intermittent lockdowns are the new normal.…”
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The Pandemic’s Biggest Mystery Is Our Own Immune System
“The Atlantic Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here . There’s a joke about…”
August 5, 2020
August 3, 2020
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How the Pandemic Defeated America
“Dina Litovsky / Redux Image above : A masked worker cleans a New York City subway entrance. H ow did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a…”
August 2, 2020
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Michaela Coel’s Chaos and Charisma in “I May Destroy You”
“Who hasn’t been there? A deadline looms, but inspiration won’t come. In the pilot of “I May Destroy You,” a mesmerizing twelve-episode series for HBO and BBC…”
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We Need to Talk About Ventilation
“Millennium Images / Gallery Stock I recently took a drive-through COVID-19 test at the University of North Carolina. Everything was well organized and…”
August 1, 2020
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The Power of Flawed Lists | Elizabeth Della Zazzera
“Lapham’s Quarterly is running a series on the history of best sellers, exploring the circumstances that might inspire thousands to gravitate toward the same…”
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“Over the last week, as the idea of banning TikTok in the U.S. has shifted from a fringe idea to a seeming inevitability (thanks in no small part to India’s…”