Month: April 2021
April 30, 2021
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Does Time Really Flow? New Clues Come From a Century-Old Approach to Math.
“Strangely, although we feel as if we sweep through time on the knife-edge between the fixed past and the open future, that edge — the present — appears nowhere…”
April 28, 2021
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These Materials Could Make Science Fiction a Reality
“Currents Metamaterials, which could improve smartphones and change how we use other technology, allow scientists to control light waves in new ways. Credit……”
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On Social Media, American-Style Free Speech Is Dead
“Major platforms’ policies aren’t actually inspired by the First Amendment. This legal scholar says that’s a good thing. American social media platforms have…”
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The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion?
“T owards the end of a conversation dwelling on some of the deepest metaphysical puzzles regarding the nature of human existence, the philosopher Galen Strawson…”
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🚨 What really happened at Basecamp
“I. The controversy that embroiled enterprise software maker Basecamp this week began more than a decade ago, with a simple list of customers. Around 2009,…”
April 17, 2021
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Most of Canada is in a punishing third wave. How did it come to this? – Macleans.ca
“After a year of struggling with this pandemic, science has developed a relatively good grasp of COVID-19. We know that it is difficult to catch the virus from…”
April 15, 2021
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100 Greatest Korean Films Ever | koreanscreen.com
“Read 100-51 100 Greatest Korean Films Ever (50-1) 50. Christmas in August (1998) Hur Jin-ho While blending a premature death with a romantic liaison may seem a…”
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“This week’s newsletter continues to explore how technology changes the distribution of rewards in different professions. Earlier pieces on this topic include:…”
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In the New Digital Economy, Are Artists Creators?
“It’s possible to chart phases of Internet culture by which words are used to describe its main participants. In the 2000s there were “bloggers,” the first…”
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What Traffic Enforcement Without Police Could Look Like
“Because traffic stops all too often escalate into deadly incidents, calls have grown to disentangle traffic enforcement from police—and a measure to do so has…”
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How a Burst of Light in the Sky Illuminated Something Primal
“Screenland Videos of a mysterious celestial phenomenon captured a once-common human emotion: awe at the wonder of the heavens. Credit… Photo illustration by…”
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The Repugnant Conclusion is a puzzle that has occupied philosophers and economists for decades.
“It may be time to move on from the Repugnant Conclusion. This week, the journal Utilitas is publishing our multi-author statement . Dean Spears 2 days ago · 10…”
April 13, 2021
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Interview: Patrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe
“In addition to being a friend and a Noahpinion subscriber, Patrick Collison is one of the world’s most successful founder-CEOs. Along with his co-founder and…”
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“The Tiger Phenomenon Somewhere, right now, in Silicon Valley… “So how about these Tiger guys eh?” “Hah! You’re telling me — I heard they did [Deal X] in 24…”
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“Pedestrians! Me: Craig . This: Ridgeline . My walk starting in May is currently a spreadsheet. I use spreadsheets for all of my big walks. A peanut gallery…”
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Is content moderation a dead end? — Benedict Evans
“In the late 1990s, Microsoft was the evil empire, and a big part of ‘evil’ was that it was too closed – it made things too hard for developers. But then came…”
April 12, 2021
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Tech keeps trying to ‘fix’ recipe sites. Food bloggers wish they’d stop.
“”Your favorite recipes without the ads or life stories.” That was the tagline for a site called Recipeasly when it launched in February. In its first iteration,…”
April 7, 2021
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The Long Term iPhone 12 Camera Review — Lux
“I use my phone like most people. I scroll through my social media feeds, order from overpriced delivery apps, and even make the occasional phone call. But in…”
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“Ben Sandofsky Dec 15 · 22 min read We make the most popular RAW camera for iPhone, so when Apple revealed their new ProRAW image format, we were beyond excited.…”
April 6, 2021
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Camera Obscura: Beyond the lens of user-centered design
“Top highlight As the world grows increasingly complex, the limitations of user-centered design are beginning to emerge Alexis Lloyd 9 hours ago · 20 min read…”
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From Annihilation to Acceptance: A Writer’s Surreal Journey
“I. Annihilation March 2012. I’m driving down to Orlando for a conference on the fantastic in the arts. My wife, Ann, is in the passenger seat, reading the…”
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Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy
“[Hi readers, This essay was published today in Harvard Business Review . Hope you enjoy it, and let me know your thoughts in the comments below! -Li]…”
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Can social media ever be truly “body positive”?
“In the beginning of 2020, Morayo Ogunbayo was aware that the vast majority of women did not look like Kendall Jenner. As a 19-year-old college student, she knew…”
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“Part 1 Decades of Drift White rioters killed hundreds of Black people in a successful attempt to overturn an election in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898.…”
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What Happens When Our Faces Are Tracked Everywhere We Go?
“Scroll Down Your Face Is Not Your Own When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit —…”
April 5, 2021
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What Happened to Pickup Trucks?
“A Ram 3500 pickup truck at the 2019 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan. Such heavy-duty work trucks, once intended for commercial use,…”
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“To what extent are new companies, particularly those in new spaces, pushed versus pulled into existence? Last week I wrote about how Tesla is a Meme Company :…”
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Venture capitalist Albert Wenger on fighting the climate crisis
“The Ideaspace publishes weekly interviews with authors, artists, designers, economists, researchers, venture capitalists, political activists, and others…”
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“Robert Fludd, from Utriusque Cosmi Maioris Scilicet et Minoris Metaphysica, Physica atque Technica Historia , ca. 1617–21. [ Penn Digital Archives ] Embrace the…”
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Ecosystem integrity is neither real nor valuable
“1 INTRODUCTION Conservation biology and restoration ecology are scientific fields built on ethical foundations. Typically, specific interventions have a…”