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Today's dubious lesson in technology as explained by movies: 1995's Evolver in which a teenage videogame fan wins an indestructible military robot in a contest and it works out pretty much exactly as...
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Jerome Groopman The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek In her new book, The Autistic...
narrative.ly 16 May
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ideas.time.com 17 May
Credibility problems? Check. Overreach? Check. Finger-pointing? You betcha
fastcoexist.com 17 May
The consumerization of basic medical technology--from devices that take your pulse and glucose levels to gadgets that check for abnormal heart rhythms--could have profound consequences for healthcare...
fastcocreate.com 17 May
Ordinarily, it’s the characters in scary movies who are being haunted, but with the latest from The Ring producer, Neal Edelstein, it’s the audience’s turn...
fastcocreate.com 17 May
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fastcoexist.com 16 May
The stereotype of pot smokers as people who wolf down Cheetos, brownies, and whatever else happens to be in the room isn’t entirely false...
fastcompany.com 17 May
Is there a time and a place to get past the awkwardness and just do it If so who leads Who follows And what to do with that phone in your hand Let's...
fastcoexist.com 17 May
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nplusonemag.com 17 May
I would like to propose a new online course for you to make freely available through the Coursera platform...
ideas.time.com 16 May
Women who out-earn their husbands are not so willing to accept the old obligations of spousal support when the marriage ends.
fastcodesign.com 16 May
The supermarket may be a marvel of social engineering, a highly calibrated machine designed to fulfill our gustatory desires--at the expense of our wallets--but it’s a stretch to call it architecture...
nybooks.com 16 May
Anne Applebaum Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell The End of Men and the Rise of Women by...
fastcoexist.com 17 May
On May 10, researchers at the Mauna Loa Observatory, an atmospheric monitoring facility, sounded the alarm that carbon dioxide levels in the air had now passed 400 parts per million, an arbitrary...
fastcompany.com 17 May
We're following developments in leadership and reports of potential buyers of the digital video service.
fastcodesign.com 17 May
Rich Brilliant Willing was formed in 2007 with the goal of uniting the oft disparate worlds of design and manufacturing from a fully equipped, Brooklyn-based studio and workshop...
fastcodesign.com 17 May
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fastcompany.com 17 May
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“Some of the most consistent innovators of the modern era have also been among its biggest monsters. [Think of] the diabolical creativity of Nazi Germany, which was the first country to use...”
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In what some are calling a Mother's Day miracle and others are dismissing as the desperate delusions of a sad woman, Westchester Mom Kate Greenfield is still clinging to her Mother's Day high of five...
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theparisreview.org 17 May
Patrick Leigh Fermor, center, with members of the General Heinrich Kreipe Abduction Team: Georgios Tyrakis, William Stanley Moss, Emmanouil Paterakis, and Antonios Papaleonidas...
theawl.com 17 May
"Terrifying footage shows what it is like to be eaten by a bear." Trigger warning, I guess, if you've been eaten by a bear before.
theawl.com 17 May
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Last August, citing fears of "public disorder," Russian courts banned gay pride parades in the Moscow for the next 100 years...
theparisreview.org 17 May
Writes filmmaker Tom Bean, “George’s first piece of ‘participatory journalism’ was to pitch in a baseball all-star game at Yankee Stadium in 1958...
