Month: June 2021
June 28, 2021
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Jon Hassell, Trumpeter and ‘Fourth World’ Composer, Dies at 84
“Blending modern technology with traditional instruments, Mr. Hassell created a genre he described as “coffee-colored classical music of the future.” Jon Hassell…”
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“A medical reversal is when an existing treatment is found to actually be useless or harmful. Psychology has in recent years been racking up reversals: in fact…”
June 21, 2021
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Burnout: Modern Affliction or Human Condition?
“Burnout is generally said to date to 1973; at least, that’s around when it got its name. By the nineteen-eighties, everyone was burned out. In 1990, when the…”
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Why “Anywhere, Anytime” Autonomous Vehicles Make No Sense
“A lot of people in my Twitter feed seem really excited about the idea of owning a car that can drive itself anywhere, anytime. My fellow Tesla drivers call this…”
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The Beautiful Summer Day When My Family Almost Died
“Health Of all the injuries we suffered, mine is the worst. My brain injury has shaken my confidence in my own personality, my own existence. Hana Schank 7:00 AM…”
June 16, 2021
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Covid-19: Has the pandemic harmed our memories?
“Has your memory got worse during the pandemic? The data is in. I In November 2020 I wrote a feature about us becoming more forgetful during the Covid-19…”
June 14, 2021
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Hustle Culture and the Big Lies of Success
“One day, Richard Montañez, then a janitor at Frito-Lay, took an unseasoned pack of Cheetos from a broken machine on the assembly line home with him. He…”
June 13, 2021
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How unconscious forces control our actions
“Subliminal messaging and nudge psychology lead us to believe that we can be influenced without us realising, but just how powerful is our unconscious mind?…”
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How Thousands of Indigenous Children Vanished in Canada
“The discovery of the remains of 215 children at the former site of a boarding school in British Columbia has rekindled discussion of a sinister time in Canada’s…”
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Science in flux: is a revolution brewing in evolutionary theory? – Kevin Laland | Aeon Essays
“When researchers at Emory University in Atlanta trained mice to fear the smell of almonds (by pairing it with electric shocks), they found , to their…”
June 12, 2021
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The Human Genome Is—Finally!—Complete
“Science The Human Genome Project left 8 percent of our DNA unexplored. Now, for the first time, those enigmatic regions have been revealed. Sarah Zhang 8:00 AM…”
June 10, 2021
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Many People Have a Vivid ‘Mind’s Eye,’ While Others Have None at All
“Matter Scientists are finding new ways to probe two not-so-rare conditions to better understand the links between vision, perception and memory. Credit……”
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““This land was made for you and me” — Woody Guthrie “I’m all right Jack, keep your hands off of my stack” — Pink Floyd I’ve been reading Rick Perlstein’s…”
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Returns to Scale in Broken Windows | Fantastic Anachronism
“Everyone is familiar with Bastiat’s broken window fallacy: breaking a window may seem to generate economic activity through its repair, but it’s actually a loss…”
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Timothy Morton’s Hyper-Pandemic
“In 2013, a philosopher and ecologist named Timothy Morton proposed that humanity had entered a new phase. What had changed was our relationship to the nonhuman.…”
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The Canny Catharsis of Bo Burnham’s Year ‘Inside’
“Netflix/Ringer illustration Entertainment about, or even just set during, the pandemic is no longer a novelty. First, there came a wave of specials and one-offs…”
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Young Creators Are Burning Out and Breaking Down
“Many people who have found fame on TikTok are struggling with mental health issues. Gen Z creators are struggling with the challenges that come with building,…”
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Bo Burnham’s ‘Inside’: A Comedy Special and an Inspired Experiment
“On Comedy Using cinematic tools other comics overlook, the star (who is also the director, editor and cameraman) trains a glaring spotlight on internet life…”
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The Brain Isn’t Supposed to Change This Much
“Science “Scientists are meant to know what’s going on, but in this particular case, we are deeply confused.” Ed Yong 1:00 PM ET Adam Maida / The Atlantic /…”
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The COVID lab-leak hypothesis: what scientists do and don’t know
“NEWS EXPLAINER Nature examines arguments that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab in China, and the science behind them. Amy Maxmen View author…”
June 8, 2021
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‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’: Why the “Indy Doesn’t Matter” Criticism Needs to Be Put in the Ground
“Among the many atrocities committed against popular culture by The Big Bang Theory , there exists only one that equals the sheer, breathtaking obnoxiousness of…”
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How can I help my husband lose weight without being fatphobic?
“Here’s The Thing is an advice column/newsletter where I mostly beg people to either stop dating someone or to ask their crush out. Or I talk about weird things…”
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The Man Who Put Out Fires with Music
“I’ve long been obsessed with the hidden power of song. I’m not talking about how music entertains us, or even its higher artistic potentialities, but something…”
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Why Are Investment Funds Obsessed with Old Songs?
“What’s the hottest area of investment in the music business? Take a guess—maybe Broadway shows or jazz nightclubs or vintage guitars? Okay, those were jokes.…”
June 6, 2021
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Why the New York Pizza Fold Works
“Ideas The mathematician Jordan Ellenberg discusses gerrymandering, bad COVID-19 projections, and how geometry explains the world. 6:00 AM ET Derek Thompson…”
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“As an old outdoor hobby draws new followers, metal detectors are sweeping the country. Nikoline Bohr, 32, a member of the Ring Finders network, with her metal…”
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Why ‘quirky’ people are attractive
“There are some universal standards of beauty, so why has evolution not made us all beautiful? When it comes to attraction, originality can pay off. R Recumbent…”
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“Me, surfing the ‘net (Getty) Welcome to Galaxy Brain — a newsletter from Charlie Warzel about technology and culture and big ideas. You can read what this is…”
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The End of Stock Market Fundamentals?
“DealBook Newsletter AMC’s shares are defying gravity. That could have consequences. June 3, 2021, 8:20 a.m. ET AMC’s market value is now close to that of Delta…”
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There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
“So you’ve heard about how fish aren’t a monophyletic group? You’ve heard about carcinization , the process by which ocean arthropods convergently evolve into…”