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February 7, 2020

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What we didn’t get

“I recently wrote a fairly well-received Twitter thread about how the cyberpunk sci-fi of the 1980s and early 1990s accurately predicted a lot about our current…”
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1,000 True Fans? Try 100 – Andreessen Horowitz

“More than a decade ago, Wired editor Kevin Kelly wrote an essay called “ 1,000 True Fans ,” predicting that the internet would allow large swaths of people to…”

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Why Public Wi-Fi is a Lot Safer Than You Think

“If you follow security on the Internet, you may have seen articles warning you to “beware of public Wi-Fi networks” in cafes, airports, hotels, and other public…”
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The Last Word On Nothing | Guest Post: Weird Rock, Weirder Story

““There is an aspect to this story that is weirder than you canimagine.” That sentence was e-mailed to me by a geologist, Jan Kramers, atthe University of…”

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Panicking About Your Kids and Their Phones? The New Research Says Don’t

“A growing number of academics are challenging assumptions about the negative effects of social media and smartphones on children. Candice L. Odgers at home with…”

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[DRAFT] Investment Memo: Earnest Fund 2 | Earnest Capital

“Introduction What follows is a public draft of the investment memo that I intend to use for Earnest’s second fund with as few redactions as possible. This is…”

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Superkül is our 2020 Designer of the Year | Designlines Magazine

“Why build a passive house? To this question, Meg Graham and Andre D’Elia return a thoughtful gaze. “Because,” Graham says, “it’s the right thing to do.” A…”

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Have We Hit Peak Whiteness?

“Ronald Perry can’t seem to get his patients’ teeth white enough.”

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Why Your Brain Needs Exercise

“In the 1990s researchers announced a series of discoveries that would upend a bedrock tenet of neuroscience. For decades the mature brain was understood to be…”

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A Better Social Media World Is Waiting for Us

“Social media is broken. It has poisoned the way we communicate with each other and undermined the democratic process.”

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Open Source Code Will Survive the Apocalypse in an Arctic Cave

“The last stop for civilization before the North Pole is Svalbard, an archipelago north of mainland Norway along the 80th parallel.”
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Does Who You Are at 7 Determine Who You Are at 63?

“In 1964, with “Seven Up!” Michael Apted stumbled into making what has become the most profound documentary series.”

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In 2029, It’ll Be Harder to Write Science Fiction Because We’ll Be Living It

“This article is part of New York ‘s Future Issue, a collection of predictions about the near future as seen through the recent past.”

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The 78 Best Book Covers of 2019

“This year, at Lit Hub, we spent a lot of time thinking about book cover design. Oliver Munday wrote about designing the cover for Fleur Jaeggy’s newly reissued…”
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The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

“November 2019 Everyone knows that to do great work you need both natural abilityand determination. But there’s a third ingredient that’s not aswell understood:…”

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Remembrance Day Poppies: The Political History of a Symbol

“The origins of the Remembrance Day poppy are pretty well known. However, how they made the jump to Canada, is rather unclear.”

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Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind

“In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.”

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The Trouble With Dentistry

“We have a fraught relationship with dentists as authority figures. In casual conversation we often dismiss them as “not real doctors,” regarding them more as…”

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Can a Burger Help Solve Climate Change?

“Pat Brown, Impossible’s founder, argues that we can’t fight climate change unless we get rid of cows.”
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What came first? Wheeled luggage or a man on the moon?

“This man had to carry his luggage when he got home. Brian Weisberg: Marketing Quant Follow Sep 22, 2014 · 5 min read Take a moment and look at this picture of…”

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What Happens When Lyme Disease Becomes an Identity?

“Polly Murray, in the 1960s and ’70s, was a mother of four with an old house on several acres in Lyme, Connecticut. In the summer, her kids built forts in the…”

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Kids these days: Why the youth of today seem lacking

“Abstract In five preregistered studies, we assess people’s tendency to believe “kids these days” are deficient relative to those of previous generations. Across…”
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Is the world really better than ever?

“By the end of last year, anyone who had been paying even passing attention to the news headlines was highly likely to conclude that everything was terrible.”
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What is Amazon?

“What exactly is Amazon? This is the question that has consumed me for the last ten years.”
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What does it mean for a machine to “understand”?

“Thomas G. Dietterich Oct 27 · 7 min read Critics of recent advances in artificial intelligence complain that although these advances have produced remarkable…”
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The 1950s Are Greatly Overrated

“Anyone miss the cookie-cutter lifestyle? Photographer: H. Armstrong Roberts/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Photographer: H. Armstrong Roberts/Hulton Archive/Getty…”
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In 1986, Superheroes Needed Watchmen. Now Superhero Movies Need the New Adaptation.

“Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by DC Comics and Mark Hill/HBO. For the past three weeks, fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been raging against…”
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‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations

“Now it’s war: Gen Z has finally snapped over climate change and financial inequality.”

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How Lana Del Rey’s career explains a huge shift in the way we think about pop stars

“Lana Del Rey poses for a portrait during a visit to 107.7 The End on October 2, 2019, in Seattle, Washington. Mat Hayward/Getty Images At the end of August,…”