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March 2, 2019
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Entertainment District Density Sets Up Tough Decisions for City | Urban Toronto
“It’s a story that has been repeated ad nauseum in Toronto over the past decade. Developable land is scarce. Demand for housing is high. Land value is…”
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Your Partner Is Probably Lying to You About All the Memes You Send – MEL Magazine
“Since the beginning of their relationship, Dan S., a senior at the University of Chicago, has lied to his girlfriend almost daily. For his internship, he…”
February 24, 2019
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How Criticisms of Roma Have Revealed American Biases
“Yalitza Aparicio in Roma (courtesy Netflix) The first time I watched Roma was in a movie theater with my parents. Unlike them, I wasn’t yet around in the 1970s…”
February 18, 2019
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The Sexualized Messages Dress Codes are Sending to Students
“Nashoba Regional MA Also, student dress that is obscene or offensive, and/or disruptive to the learning environment will not be permitted. Norwood High MA Since…”
February 14, 2019
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Why it’s so hard to fix AI bias
“Why it’s so hard to fix AI bias We’ve come to understand how AI bias can impact people’s lives. Today we’re covering the mechanics of how it arises in the first…”
February 13, 2019
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The Green New Deal is a one-pager for America – Fruitful.zone – Medium
“It’s meant to spark a conversation, so let’s talk about it! Buster Benson Feb 12 Original full text of the document When I read the Green New Deal , a proposal…”
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“Trätoppen, a proposed building in Stockholm. Until recently, there were two basic ways of using wood in construction: chop down whole tree trunks for heavy…”
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Why America’s New Apartment Buildings All Look the Same
“These buildings are in almost every U.S. city. They range from three to seven stories tall and can stretch for blocks. They’re usually full of rental…”
February 10, 2019
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Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: the ‘pencil towers’ of New York’s super-rich
“I t is rare in the history of architecture for a new type of building to emerge. The Romans’ discovery of concrete birthed the great domes and fortifications of…”
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“I’ve talked quite a lot about the impact of machine learning and computer vision in general on everything from e-commerce recommendation to social to all kinds…”
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Russian Doll Has No Easy Answers
“Charlie Barnett and Natasha Lyonne in Russian Doll. Photo: Netflix Nadia Vulvokov has come unstuck in time. The heroine of Netflix’s Russian Doll — played by…”
February 9, 2019
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David’s Lemonade: Brandade: 5 Cents – Print Magazine
“Brandade: 5 Cents By: | February 5, 2019 AddThis Sharing Buttons 19 In the annals of Corporate Identity Manuals, the most interesting of the many that go down…”
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‘The Well’ to Transform Downtown Toronto Neighbourhood
“By Mario Toneguzzi It’s being billed as a first of its kind in Canada. The Well in downtown Toronto is a 3.1 million-square-foot mixed-use development spread…”
February 3, 2019
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Graphic Design Criticism as a Spectator Sport
“Pollice Verso (Thumbs Down), Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1872. Part One: There’s Something Wrong with Vinny It’s an imaginary summer Saturday afternoon in suburban…”
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The Teens Who Listen to ‘Mallwave’ Are Nostalgic for An Experience They’ve Never Had – MEL Magazine
“When Michael Tills from Kentucky wants to escape, he goes to the mall. He visits the old ice cream parlor and orders his favorite: mint chocolate chip with a…”
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“The Peter Saville-designed Burberry logo is part of a strategy to realign the British label on the international stage. “The company recognised the need to…”
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Welcome to the Bold and Blocky Instagram Era of Book Covers
“Photo: Vulture If you’re looking for the most anticipated books of 2019, chances are your search will start with Google and end at Amazon. Chances are even…”
January 27, 2019
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“It’s Friday and I’m procrastinating, so here you go. Let’s talk about Joseph Schumpeter. Good old John Joseph Jingleheimer Schumpeter, as he wasn’t called.…”
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The masculinity revolution is a quiet one. Don’t trust its loudest critics.
“Men are under attack. Everything that makes masculinity sacred — valor, honor, chivalry, leadership — is under siege. What else could explain a recent…”
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This New Short Story Asks: How Much Worse Can Trolling Get?
“Sarula Bao Each month, Future Tense Fiction —a series of short stories from Future Tense and ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination about how technology…”
January 26, 2019
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In praise of the Detroit Eatery and Toronto’s classic diners like it | The Star
“Fri., Jan. 25, 2019 I was at the Detroit Eatery for a late breakfast last week. It was a pretty unremarkable visit — a little chit-chat with the waitress and…”
January 25, 2019
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How I Knew the #CovingtonBoys Video Was Clickbait
“Everyone has a #CovingtonBoys story, and this is mine. It is a story about clickbait. It is a story about how an unknown political operative captured a real…”
January 24, 2019
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We may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s – and how to stop it
“P. gingivalis may be the main culprit in Alzheimer’s disease A. DOWSETT, PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY By Debora MacKenzie If you bled when you…”
January 20, 2019
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The definition of “emotional labor” has changed. Don’t fight it
“There’s a moment in the otherwise fairly forgettable 2006 romantic comedy The Break-Up that has stayed with me. Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn, playing…”
January 19, 2019
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“Your life choices are shadowed by ignorance: you choose to be a parent without knowing what being a parent will be like. Illustration by Anna Parini In July of…”
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Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths — or Falling Into Old Traps?
“A skull found at a prehistoric burial site near Teouma Bay, on the island nation of Vanuatu. Credit David Maurice Smith for The New York Times Skip to…”
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How Lichens Explain (And Re-explain) the World
“Wolf lichen Tim Wheeler Science is sometimes caricatured as a wholly objective pursuit that allows us to understand the world through the lens of neutral…”
January 16, 2019
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“STUMM433 “Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise” – John Cage We are delighted to announce our latest release in the MUTE 4.0 (1978 > TOMORROW) series:…”
January 13, 2019
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Brian Eno and Finn Williams in conversation: Planning for the longer now
“Musician and artist Brian Eno and Finn Williams in conversation, ask how the public sector might find a new agency to create a long-term public value. ______…”
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Selling Out the Newspaper Comic Strip – Los Angeles Review of Books
“Calvin: The hard part for us avant-garde post-modern artists is deciding whether or not to embrace commercialism. Do we allow our work to be hyped and exploited…”