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March 14, 2018
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“At the International Institute for Integrative Sleep, mice go about their business, waking and dreaming, in row after row of plastic bins. In their brains, as in all of ours, is locked a secret.”
Why Do We Need to Sleep?
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/the-mystery-of-sleep-pressure/549473/
March 13, 2018
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This tweet took an unexpected turn
The first human pregnancy via frozen semen was in 1953. But more than 60 years later, scientists still haven't succeeded with the snake version https://t.co/vhBQlancTp
— WIRED (@WIRED) March 13, 2018
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This review stands the test of time.
Saw “Room with a View.” Nothing really happens, an “Out of Africa”-type thing, but it’s beautiful. 3/13/86
— Andy’s Diary (@WarholLives) March 13, 2018
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It’s unclear to me if everything is shocking now or if I wasn’t paying this much attention before. I’m leaning towards, “I didn’t pay this much attention before”.
Remember being shocked by stuff?
— Jenny Jaffe (@jennyjaffe) March 13, 2018
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A great use of your time on earth is to find something that isn’t on the Internet and put it there for future use by our hive mind.
Here’s one example:
A Wikipedia editor typed up 25,000 historical US city populations from the census, 4x what historians have had to work with. Here's a narrative visualization of the dataset. https://t.co/pmUJc68gPL pic.twitter.com/AHTQCiFqsy
— Benjamin Schmidt (@benmschmidt) March 12, 2018
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“…the street finds its own uses for things”
My 10 year old created a shared Google doc to chat with his friends and it's the most adorably nerdy solution to "my mom won't let me have a social media account" that I've seen in a while
— Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) March 13, 2018
March 12, 2018
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If you know Gumnaam, it’s probably because of this dance number that opens the US movie Ghostworld.
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Sometimes when I’m feeling down I put on “Kitty Kelly” from the Bollywood classic “Gumnaam” and I feel a lot better.
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Big fluffy snowflakes are falling in Toronto. The kind that go up and sideways as much as they fall down.
dlws
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hoboning
— New New York Times (@NYT_first_said) March 12, 2018
March 11, 2018
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“Social media is not unlike a personal diary. It is a public diary that has a graph of relationships built into it. But there is a continuity of archival practice.”
Future Historians Probably Won’t Understand Our Internet, and That’s Okay
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/12/it-might-be-impossible-for-future-historians-to-understand-our-internet/547463/
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“Romance is so taken for granted we often don’t register it, the way we rarely register if all the characters in a novel are white.”
We Need More Books Without Romance – Electric Literature
https://electricliterature.com/we-need-more-books-without-romance-7ed139b69e33
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I remain optimistic
March 10, 2018
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How DNA Testing Botched My Family’s Heritage, and Probably Yours, Too
https://gizmodo.com/how-dna-testing-botched-my-familys-heritage-and-probab-1820932637
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This is probably the best analysis of ethics and morality for #AI I have read. I’d love to see this become the framework for future discussions on this essential topic.
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“I’ve been using a newer definition of marketing in recent years: generating attention you can turn into profitable demand”
Re-thinking Marketing
https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/re-thinking-marketing-generating-attention-you-can-turn-into-profitable-demand
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“There is just the continual, lepidoptery-like collection of “moments.” Memories turned into mere mementos. Remembering turns into reminding.”
Instant Recall
http://reallifemag.com/instant-recall/
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iOS autocorrect correct can be truly bizarre at times. pic.twitter.com/9szkpeNR1G
March 9, 2018
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“Even though there is a recognized canon of rock music, there are big differences by birth year in how popular a song is.”
The Songs That Bind | The New York Times
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How Capicola Became Gabagool
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-capicola-became-gabagool-the-italian-new-jersey-accent-explained
March 8, 2018
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😹
unpanicky
— New New York Times (@NYT_first_said) March 9, 2018
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“The problem with the culture of radical honesty is that we are not transparent to ourselves. Radical honesty works if everyone is fully rational”
The Downside of Radical Honesty | Angela Chen
https://catapult.co/stories/data-column-the-downside-of-radical-honesty
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Canada is getting a vertical bank note. I blame this on people unwilling to turn their phones sideways when taking videos. Also, there is a LOT happening on this bill.
Canada’s Vertical $10 Note – Bank of Canada
https://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/vertical10/
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“The male glance is the opposite of the male gaze. Rather than linger lovingly on the parts it wants most to penetrate, it looks, assumes, and moves on.”
The Male Glance | VQR Online
http://www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/2018/03/male-glance
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/cc @cultureshipname
"Hello, my name is Fly-from-Fornication." https://t.co/nVxHpVm0Oy pic.twitter.com/unywPagwj4
— Angela Chen (@chengela) March 8, 2018
March 7, 2018
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I kind of liked some of the songs on that Frank Ocean contractual obligation video-only album that came out right before Blond. I hope they get a proper release at some point.
March 6, 2018
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👏🏼
— let mut bwinton = env::args().skip(1).collect(); (@bwinton) March 6, 2018
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Annihilation (Alex Garland, 2018)
#archivepix (saved 9 Oct 2011) pic.twitter.com/VUruaVU5bN
— Paul Ford (@ftrain) March 6, 2018
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Alcohol, weed, and coffee branding seem to be coalescing.
Today on Brand New (Noted): New Logo, Identity, and Packaging for @brokencoastltd Cannabis by Webb Creative https://t.co/nbRm9lQp7B pic.twitter.com/QiPZcilIPO
— UnderConsideration (@ucllc) March 6, 2018
March 5, 2018
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“Annihilation” might be at 100% women speaking given how few words Oscar Isaac speaks.
The starkest and most damning graphic about how our culture works I’ve seen in a long time. pic.twitter.com/3H0GxqRq7O
— Pamela Paul (@PamelaPaulNYT) March 5, 2018