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July 7, 2019
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This psychologist explains why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit
“At 16, Huwe Burton confessed to killing his mother. He was still in shock from discovering her body when New York City police began to interrogate him. After…”
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Are you really the ‘real’ you?
“Blue sky thinking: can we change the ‘narrator’ at the centre of our lives?Illustration: Michelle Thompson Alex was a bouncer when he changed his mind about who…”
July 1, 2019
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Why plants don’t die from cancer
“Chernobyl has become a byword for catastrophe. The 1986 nuclear disaster, recently brought back into the public eye by the hugely popular TV show of the same…”
June 30, 2019
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They said books were dead, they were wrong: Adrian Shaughnessy on a decade of Unit Editions
“News / Opinion AddThis Sharing Buttons 18 4 Adrian Shaughnessy founded Unit Editions with Tony Brook and Patricia Finegan in 2009. Since then, the studio has…”
June 28, 2019
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There’s a Legal Loophole That May Leave Some of Rock’s Greatest Riffs Up for Grabs
“The Legal Loophole That May Leave Some of Rock’s Greatest Riffs Up for Grabs By Vernon Silver June 20, 2019 In a little-noticed moment during Led Zeppelin’s…”
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How the news took over reality
“T he afternoon of Friday 13 November 2015 was a chilly one in Manhattan, but that only made the atmosphere inside the Old Town Bar, one of the city’s oldest…”
June 27, 2019
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Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think
“Luci Gutiérrez “I t’s not true that no one needs you anymore.” These words came from an elderly woman sitting behind me on a late-night flight from Los Angeles…”
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The Internet Has Made Dupes—and Cynics—of Us All
“Online fakery runs wide and deep, but you don’t need me to tell you that. New species of digital fraud and deception come to light almost every week, if not…”
June 23, 2019
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Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence: The 3,100-mile race around a New York block
“Many competitors say they have out of body experiences during the race It is a race so long that runners need a haircut during it. They can get through 20 pairs…”
June 22, 2019
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Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry
“R ecently, Recently, a musician signed to a major indie label told me they were owed up to $40,000 in song royalties they would never be able to collect. It…”
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Anna Biller’s Pleasure Principles
“Anna Biller’s Pleasure Principles On Film / Interviews —May 29, 2019 I n Anna Biller’s vibrantly colored fantasias, there’s not a glimmer of a sequin that…”
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“Chuck Berry, 1958. Skip to contentSkip to site index Feature It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew. This is…”
June 19, 2019
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“Goodbye, 20th Century!” — Andy Zax
““Goodbye, 20th Century!”: How Stupidity, Incompetence, Obsolescence, Carelessness, Greed, Malfeasance, Lazy Lawyers And A Basic Misunderstanding Of Physics…”
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Three ways of understanding the world
“P-E Gobry has a narrow view of what science is: [L]et me explain what science actually is. Science is the process through which we derive reliable predictive…”
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“(Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post) Peter Saville was 22 years old, fresh out of college and ready for the opportunity that presented itself. “At that age, no…”
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How modern life is transforming the human skeleton
“It all started with a goat. The unfortunate animal was born in the Netherlands in the spring of 1939 – and his prospects did not look good. On the left side of…”
June 13, 2019
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Welcome to the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
“It’s not just a look. Photographer: Keystone/Hulton Archive Photographer: Keystone/Hulton Archive In 1998, science fiction author David Brin published a…”
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A thriving architecture scene rises in Toronto
“Architecture | 1 day ago | By A thriving architecture scene rises in Toronto King Toronto by Bjarke Ingels Group BIG is bringing something novel to an old…”
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Why We Forget Most of the Books We Read – The Atlantic – Pocket
“”Discarded Treasures” Photo by John Frederick Peto / Getty Pamela Paul’s memories of reading are less about words and more about the experience. “I almost…”
May 28, 2019
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“David Milch in the converted garage of his bungalow, in Santa Monica. Photograph by Ryan Pfluger for The New Yorker David Milch, the television writer, lives…”
May 24, 2019
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The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet – OneZero
“This is also what the internet is becoming: a dark forest Yancey Strickler May 20 Photo by Rosie Fraser on Unsplash In his sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem…”
May 20, 2019
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How our commitment to consumers and our planet led us to use GM soy
“By Pat Brown , CEO & Founder of Impossible Foods Impossible Foods May 16 Starting later this month, some of the soy protein used in the Impossible Burger will…”
May 18, 2019
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What Pop Culture Misunderstands About Serial Killers
“Photo: MGM Retired FBI agent John E. Douglas is no stranger to Hollywood. Over the past three decades, his groundbreaking work as a criminal profiler has…”
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Scientists Created Bacteria With a Synthetic Genome. Is This Artificial Life?
“matter In a milestone for synthetic biology, colonies of E. coli thrive with DNA constructed from scratch by humans, not nature. A colored scanning electron…”
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AGI Has Been Delayed – Rodney Brooks
“A very recent article follows in the footsteps of many others talking about how the promise of autonomous cars on roads is a little further off than many…”
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The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones
“Game of Thrones, in its eighth and final season, is as big as television gets these days. More than 17 million people watched the season’s opening. Judging by…”
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When 2019 Was the Future | Filmmaker Magazine
“Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Running Man (courtesy of Olive Films) by Joanne McNeil in Columns , Issues on Mar 14, 2019 The artist David Levine once staged…”
May 16, 2019
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“It takes a unique combination of dumb and evil to call 911 because an alert about a missing child roused you from your sleep. I don’t know who these people are,…”
May 10, 2019
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“This tweet made me think a lot:
First of all, as much as I hate this idea, I think this notion is correct. This trend has been happening for a long time, and…”
May 5, 2019
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“John L’Heureux, who died on April 22, 2019, at the age of eighty-four, asked for the following essay to accompany “The Escape,” his story in this week’s issue…”