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January 13, 2019
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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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“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…”
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Top 10 Design Flaws in the Human Body – Issue 24: Error – Nautilus
“T he Greeks were obsessed with the mathematically perfect body. But unfortunately for anyone chasing that ideal, we were designed not by Pygmalion, the mythical…”
January 4, 2019
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‘Pete the Groin Crusher’ has crushed 10,000 patients’ groins ‘without even a sweat’ | We The People
“Meet Pete Schiavo, a hemostasis tech at Pennsylvania Hospital who manually applies pressure to the femoral artery in patients’ groins, or the radial artery in…”
December 28, 2018
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The Trouble With Designing a Book When Its Author is in Jail
“As a senior designer at Alfred A. Knopf, I feel incredibly lucky. Odds are, if I’m passed a manuscript to read, I will love it. And when I’m assigned a novel by…”
December 12, 2018
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“Every week, Spotify releases two-track EPs through its Spotify Singles program, recorded at various Spotify Studios locations around the world. It’s a foray…”
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How Amazon Prime will change the way our cities look – The Boston Globe
“After decades of banishing retail stores from residential neighborhoods, the nation’s real estate developers, city planners, and the general public finally came…”
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“MIND Headlines suggest that the genetic marks of trauma can be passed from one generation to the next. But the evidence, at least in humans, is circumstantial…”
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Widows, Black Panther, Suspiria, and the Year of the Elevated Genre Film
“Photo: Maya Robinson/Vulture and Photo by Fox Searchlight To refer to Steve McQueen’s Widows as “a heist movie” almost feels wrong. Sure, it has a heist in it;…”
December 1, 2018
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Memetic Tribes and Culture War 2.0 – Intellectual Explorers Club – Medium
““My friends, this election is about more than who gets what. It is about who we are. It is about what we believe, and what we stand for as Americans. There is a…”
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“Let me describe what I hear as I sit in a coffee shop writing this article. It’s late morning on a Saturday, between the breakfast and lunch rushes. People talk…”
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Criminal Incompetence | Inside Higher Ed
“About a year ago, one of my distant relatives found himself in trouble with the law, and not for the first time. He had allegedly stabbed somebody in the course…”
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Listening While Feminist: In Defense of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” – Persephone Magazine
“Editor’s note: Please enjoy this featured post from our archives. I’m a pretty voracious consumer and critic of American popular culture. I’m one of those 3 rd…”
November 24, 2018
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The Pre-Internet Phenomenon of Boys Hiding Their Porn in the Woods – MEL Magazine
“I grew up in a New Jersey suburb called Basking Ridge , so named, we were told in elementary school, by the British Presbyterians who bought — cough — the land…”
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The Apophenic Machine — Real Life
“Image: Detail from The Test by David Delruelle. Think of a network graph. A simple one with just a few nodes and connecting lines spidering out. It makes…”
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The Most Misread Poem in America
“Everyone knows Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”—and almost everyone gets it wrong. Frost in 1913. From The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem…”
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NASA Learns More About Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua
“An artist’s concept of interstellar asteroid 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua) as it passed through the solar system after its discovery in October 2017. Observations of…”
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Why Standing Desks Are Overrated
“Supported by The New Health Care They’re not cures for anything, and standing is not exercise. Standing at a desk may offer some conveniences, but it’s not a…”
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“Introspective is the odd album out from Pet Shop Boys’ fabled “imperial phase”. It’s also, says David Bennun, the best thing they ever did Here’s a thing I…”
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The pop culture references that separate millennials from baby boomers
“Have you heard of Post Malone? If so, you probably aren’t a baby boomer. According to data collected by the polling company YouGov, only 17% of US baby boomers,…”
November 13, 2018
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The Last Word On Nothing | On Food Pills And Legacy
“What if instead of eating three meals each day (plus snacks, if you’re me) we just popped pills and moved along with our lives. Food pills were once a staple of…”
October 31, 2018
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Tracing Modernism’s Roots in Tuberculosis Hospitals
“De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, U.K. Completed in 1935, the dramatic pavilion of concrete, steel, and glass was a “sanatorium by the sea” for ordinary…”
October 18, 2018
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“Play Video 0:48 Watch the trailer for Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old – video T o mark the centenary of the first world war’s end, Peter Jackson has…”