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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The public shaming of young people rarely ends well. Resist the urge to give in to hate.
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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…”
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Man’s $1,998 Camera Fried by Self-Driving Car Laser
“Self-driving cars widely use a technology called lidar (which stands for light detection and ranging) to “see” the world using laser pulses. These lasers are…”
January 12, 2019
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The Time Capsule That’s as Big as Human History
“When Martin Kunze was 13, he was on vacation with his parents in Spain, and at a beach next to the Mediterranean, did what kids sometimes do out of curiosity…”
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The Search for Alien Life Begins in Earth’s Oldest Desert
“Zoë van Dijk M ary Beth Wilhelm’s right arm shot out of the passenger window, and the convoy of vehicles behind her crunched to a stop. Spread among two trucks…”
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Losing It in the Anti-Dieting Age
“Credit Photo Illustration by Todd McLellan Skip to contentSkip to site index Feature The agonies of being overweight — or running a diet company — in a culture…”
January 9, 2019
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Animals Keep Creating Mysteries by Sounding Weird
“A Cuban flag in Havana Alexandre Meneghini / Reuters In late 2016, American diplomats living in Cuba started hearing a strange noise in their homes . It was…”
January 7, 2019
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Technics announces a new SL-1200 turntable for DJing
“Image: Panasonic Technics has announced a new DJ turntable at CES 2019. Dubbed the SL-1200MK7, this is the first time the company has added to its legendary…”
January 6, 2019
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A Network Theorist Seeks “Universal Laws” of Success
“Albert-László Barabási at the Digital Life Design (DLD) Conference at the HVB Forum on January 22, 2013 in Munich, Germany. Credit: Tobias Hase Alamy It reads…”
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How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation
“I couldn’t figure out why small, straightforward tasks on my to-do list felt so impossible. The answer is both more complex and far simpler than I expected.…”
January 5, 2019
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Top 30 Albums of 2018
A bit of background from my 2013 preamble for those new to my lists:
I do this more for me — as a way of discovering new music — than for you, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want you to get as much joy from these amazing artists as I did this year. My list-making secret is to start a “long list” of albums I like at the beginning of the year. I keep adding when something strikes my fancy and use the year-end holidays to figure out which ones really made the cut.
For those interested, my previous Top 30 Albums are still online:
- Top 30 Albums of 2010
- Top 30 Albums of 2011
- Top 30 Albums of 2012
- Top 30 Albums of 2013
- Top 30 Albums of 2014
- Top 30 Albums of 2015
- Top 30 Albums of 2016
- Top 30 Albums of 2017
I feel this was another good year for music although I didn’t find as many of the mainstream releases inspiring this year. Kacey Musgraves is probably the only chart hit on the list. And really only one straight-up rock band this year – She Drew The Gun.
I’ve made a concerted effort to listen to women more. More female musicians, authors, directors, commentators, etc. It’s been very fruitful and is reflected in this list. 17 of my Top 30 are by women or bands with women in them.
And now, my Top 30 Albums of 2018! Enjoy!
Note these are in alphabetical order. I could never rank-order these — it would change daily.
- Freedom by Amen Dunes
- Streams of Thought Vol 2 by Black Thought, Salaam Remi
- First Flower by Molly Burch
- Broken Politics by Neneh Cherry
- Chris by Christine & The Queens
- Knock Knock by DJ Koze
- Some Rap Songs by Earl Sweatshirt
- Everything is Recorded by Everything is Recorded
- Quilt Jams by Elsa Hewitt
- Hive Mind by The Internet
- Uniform Clarity by Jim James
- The Horizon Just Laughed by Damien Jurado
- Con Todo El Mundo by Khruangbin
- Correspondence by Jens Lekman and Annika Norlin
- Double Negative by Low
- All The Things That I Did… by The Milk Carton Kids
- Golden Hour by Kacey Musgraves
- Being Human In Public by Jessie Reyez
- El Mal Querer by Rosalía
- If Only There Was A River by Anna St. Louis
- Revolution of Mind by She Drew The Gun
- Compro by Skee Mask
- Sink by Sudan Archives
- Superorganism by Superorganism
- Love, Loss and Auto-Tune by Swamp Dogg
- The Hex by Richard Swift
- Devotion by Tirzah
- Isolation by Kali Uchis
- Bottle It In by Kurt Vile
- Nothing Is Still by Leon Vynehall
My 2019 list will be my 10th and I’m thinking I’ll look at the 300 albums I’ve recommended this decade and do a Top 30 of my Top 30 along with my annual list. Stay tuned!
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“Lisa Larson-Walker Each month in 2018, Future Tense Fiction —a series of short stories from Future Tense and ASU’s Center for Science and the Imagination about…”