Month: October 2021
October 30, 2021
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The Real Reason Facebook Changed Its Name
“Meta—the company formerly known as Facebook—desperately wants you to believe that it is going to put the future on your face. That was the gist of Mark…”
October 18, 2021
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12 Predictions for the Future of Music
“Record labels will gradually lose both the ability and desire to develop new artists—there simply won’t be enough profit in young talent to justify the large…”
October 15, 2021
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Why the best aliens are just a little bit human
“Becky Chambers is one of the few authors whose every book I gobble up greedily. The sci-fi writer launched her career in 2012 by raising money on Kickstarter ,…”
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A World Without the Traffic Cop
“O n a hot June evening in Berkeley, California, last year, while his groceries sweated on the couch, 24-year-old Darrell Owens sent a tweet that changed his…”
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The Great Resignation Is Accelerating
“I first noticed that something weird was happening this past spring. In April, the number of workers who quit their job in a single month broke an all-time U.S.…”
October 5, 2021
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Taking the ‘Shame Part’ Out of Female Anatomy
“Credit… Simone Noronha The Great Read Anatomists have bid farewell to “pudendum,” but other questionable terms remain. Credit… Simone Noronha By Sept. 21,…”
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Students who grew up with search engines might change STEM education forever
“Catherine Garland, an astrophysicist, started seeing the problem in 2017. She was teaching an engineering course, and her students were using simulation…”
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Jonathan Franzen Finally Stopped Trying Too Hard
“J onathan Franzen writes big books about small lives. This may sound like a curious characterization of a writer who has sweated to position himself as an…”
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What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, & WhatsApp? – Krebs on Security
“Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We don’t yet know why this happened, but the how is clear:…”
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Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
““Facebook can’t be down, can it?”, we thought, for a second. Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled “Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL”…”
October 4, 2021
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Why The Supreme Court Probably Doesn’t Care What Most Americans Think About Abortion Or Gun Rights
“The Supreme Court is more conservative than it’s been in almost a century . Its new term begins today, and by next June, when the term ends, Americans might…”
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Is the Three-Minute Song Bad for Music?
“I discuss the unanticipated consequences of the 3-minute song in a new video (transcript below). The Honest Broker is a reader-supported guide to music, books,…”
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Chart of the week: Chunky trucks
“Ford F-150 on a dealer’s lot. Note the toddler-sized blind spot in front of the grill. (Getty Images) From 2000 to 2019, the average weight of a vehicle…”
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A Secret State Department Report Says Microwaves Didn’t Cause “Havana Syndrome”
“A declassified State Department report obtained by BuzzFeed News dismissed the theory that microwave weapons are behind the mysterious neurological injuries in…”
October 3, 2021
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“Matter A new study suggests that a single genetic mutation helps explain why monkeys have tails, while apes and people do not. A team of scientists say they…”
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The workers who keep global supply chains moving are warning of a ‘system collapse’
“London (CNN Business) Seafarers, truck drivers and airline workers have endured quarantines, travel restrictions and complex Covid-19 vaccination and testing…”
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Immunity Is Redefining COVID-19
“Boghuma Kabisen Titanji was just 8 years old when the hyper-contagious virus swept through her classroom. Days later, she started to feel feverish, and…”
October 2, 2021
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The case for a more radical climate movement
“Protesters march to demand aggressive policies towards fighting climate change at a Fridays for Future march on September 24, 2021 in Dusseldorf, Germany. Lukas…”
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Why people who don’t trust vaccines are embracing unproven drugs
“Some Americans who are reluctant to get vaccinated believe they are living through a very different pandemic — one where the approved Covid-19 vaccines are…”
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“I wish I had something more clever to say about the new iPhone 13 lineup. But the practical reality is simple and obvious. The two ways that Apple could best…”
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Opinion | The Middle-Aged Sadness Behind the Cancel Culture Panic
“Michelle Goldberg The Middle-Aged Sadness Behind the Cancel Culture Panic Sept. 20, 2021 Jay Duplass in “The Chair.” Credit… Eliza Morse/Netflix By Opinion…”
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The Most Important iPhone Ever
“Just recently, the 2 billionth iPhone was sold. Unlike the 1 billionth, there was no announcement, no celebration. Partly this is because Apple stopped…”
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The Church of Jonathan Franzen
“Content A rabbi, a preacher, and a drug dealer walk into a Christmas party. This is not the setup to a joke; it is the setup to a pivotal scene in “Crossroads,”…”
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Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads,’ a Mellow, ’70s-Era Heartbreaker That Starts a Trilogy
“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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Jon Stewart Knows Comedy’s Limits
“It seems obvious now, in hindsight, that people expected too much from comedy in the first two decades of the new millennium—that it could make us better , make…”
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Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ Is Bloody, Brutish, and Surprisingly Tender
“For the chance to escape severe debt, the characters in Netflix’s hugely popular survival drama Squid Game would risk anything, even death. Take the protagonist…”
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The Tragedy of Safari 15 for Mac’s ‘Tabs’
“Our long national iOS 15 Safari nightmare ended last month , praise be, but the lesser of the two bad Safari designs unveiled at WWDC persists and actually…”
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Ancient Footprints Push Back Date of Human Arrival in the Americas
“Matter Human footprints found in New Mexico are about 23,000 years old, a study reported, suggesting that people may have arrived long before the Ice Age’s…”