How the smartphone killed the three-day weekend

redtape.nbcnews.com 4 hours ago

Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of summer and all it evokes: vacations, slower workweeks, casual dress codes, getting the pool ready and pulling out the outdoor furniture...

 
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30 Things You Didn't Know About Return of The Jedi

wired.com 5 hours ago

Tomorrow sees the 30th anniversary of the release of Return of The Jedi. To celebrate, here are 30 things you might not have known about the movie.

 
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Saving Summer's Trashiest Cocktail: Make Way For The $21 Long Island Ice Tea

theawl.com 9 hours ago

11 Madison is either a very good restaurant or the absolute best restaurant in New York City. It depends on whom you ask. But don't ask me: I've only had a drin

 
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The Future Of Technology Isn’t Mobile, It’s Contextual

fastcodesign.com 14 hours ago

You’re walking home alone on a quiet street. You hear footsteps approaching quickly from behind. It’s nighttime. Your senses scramble to help your brain figure out what to do...

 
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Another Alzheimer’s Drug Fails, Disease Still Confounds Researchers

singularityhub.com 11 hours ago

Humans are living longer, but for many, longevity doesn’t equal quality of life...

 
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This 23-Ton, 5.3-Million Brick X-Wing Is the Biggest Lego Model Ever

wired.com 23 May

This full-size X-Wing model is not only awesome, it's also the largest Lego model ever built.

 
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Steven Holl’s Sports Complex For Columbia Looks Like A Transformer

fastcodesign.com 7 hours ago

After designing buildings all over the world, from Helsinki to Beijing, the New York-based architect Steven Holl has finally completed his first freestanding structure in the city...

 
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A Forest Hideaway Proves Concrete And Cozy Can Go Together

fastcodesign.com 7 hours ago

A common, if facile, critique of Brutalism is that it is widely unsuited to domestic application...

 
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Why B2B Marketers Still Don't Get Social Media--And 7 Steps For Fixing That

fastcompany.com 9 hours ago

Who cares if you have 25000 followers on Twitter if youre not doing anything with or for them

 
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World's First 3-D-Printed Bullets Join A Growing DIY Arsenal

fastcompany.com 7 hours ago

In a YouTube video a gun enthusiast shows off shotgun slugs he claims came from a 3D printer.

 
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If Only the Boy Scouts Were Like the Girl Scouts

ideas.time.com 23 May

The Girl Scouts explicitly reject discrimination, while the Boy Scouts encourage bigotry and intellectual passivity

 
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Minimalist Posters That Reduce Your Favorite Movies To Basic Shapes

fastcodesign.com 23 May

In the future, when the history of the Internet is taught alongside social studies and algebra in middle school, there will be a brief, marginal mention of minimalist posters and how they, for a...

 
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The Summer Before College Is Critical To Success

ideas.time.com 16 hours ago

Incoming freshmen can flounder in the months before becoming a college student

 
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This Strange Looking Funnel May Be The Future Of Wind Power (Or Not)

fastcoexist.com 12 hours ago

Daryoush Allaei thinks the wind power industry has it all wrong. Rather than turbines high in the sky, he says, it should bring wind to the ground, in concentrated form. "This is the right track...

 
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Mister Softee Jingle Lyrics NOT An Incessant Stream Of Profanity, Apparently

theawl.com 11 hours ago

Ugh, so this whole time I have been walking around thinking the words to the Mister Softee jingle went like this: I am the fucking ice cream, the man who sel

 
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Ditz, Lightweight, Mooncalf, Naïf: The Second-Class Status Of Stevie Nicks

theawl.com 23 May

Stephanie Lynn “Stevie” Nicks turns 65 on Sunday. As the lead singer of Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist she has written and sung some of the most indelib

 
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Stay Out of Syria! by David Bromwich | The New York Review of Books

nybooks.com 7 hours ago

David Bromwich After the troubling revelations of the May 8 Senate hearing on Benghazi, much remains unclear about the attack that killed four Americans last...

 
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Argue Like America's Most Controversial Philosopher

fastcompany.com 13 hours ago

Dan Dennett explained consciousness skewered religion and pumped intuition. Now he wants to teach you how to argue.

 
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"Use Your Mind to Change Your Brain" - Excerpts

satyameva-jayate.org 18 hours ago

Utterly fascinating (emphasis added): Essentially, the science “proves” what we know to be true from the actual experience of meditating...In a very real way, you literally are changing your brain ...

 
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Giving Kids Computers Doesn’t Help Them In School At All

fastcoexist.com 10 hours ago

There’s an unspoken assumption that giving poor and disadvantaged kids computers will help them academically...

 
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Paris Review – Do Not Eat Library Paste, Sadie Stein

theparisreview.org 8 hours ago

Deeply tragic, deeply instructive. Via Dangerous Minds.  

 
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This Anti-Gravity 3-D Printer Can Make Objects Anywhere—Even Space

fastcoexist.com 14 hours ago

While many creators look at 3-D printing as a technology full of endless potential, designers Petr Novikov and Saša Jokić saw something with room for improvement.“There is a variety of different...

 
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After the darkest hour

economist.com 23 May

The Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Union. By Luuk van Middelaar. Translated by Liz Waters. Yale University Press; 352 pages; $40 and £25. Buy from...

 
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A Bicycle Mudguard That Recoils Like A Slap Bracelet

fastcodesign.com 9 hours ago

You’re going to get wet when biking in the rain. Fact...

 
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Kindle Worlds Lets Authors Public Fan Fiction — At Dubious Cost

wired.com 23 May

Yesterday, Amazon announced the launch of Kindle Worlds — a way for fanfic writers to publish. But does the fine print make it more trouble than its worth?

 
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The Braver, Better Movie That Star Trek Into Darkness Could Have Been

wired.com 22 May

By all rights, Star Trek Into Darkness should be a really good movie. The acting is superb. The core cast established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in 2009, and they've only gotten better...

 
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How Twitter Is Reshaping The Future Of Storytelling

fastcoexist.com 22 May

Editor’s NoteThis post is part of Co.Exist’s Futurist Forum, a series of articles by some of the world’s leading futurists about what the world will look like in the near and distant future, and how...

 
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Swedish House Mafia Bids Adieu with Music Video for Volvo

fastcocreate.com 11 hours ago

EDM trio Swedish House Mafia disbanded earlier this year, and they’re bidding a final farewell in this music video for Volvo...

 
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Tracking: Drones At Home

fastcompany.com 8 hours ago

Drones are coming to American airspace. Whether used in agribusiness to monitor farms by landscape architects to design properties by law enforcement...

 
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What you and the Senate need to know about Canada

washingtonpost.com 23 May

Column | While immigration reform continues its crawl through Congress, Canada and Ireland are capitalizing on our immigration dysfunction.

 
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The Unanswerable Question by Alberto Manguel | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books

nybooks.com 23 May

Alberto Manguel One day in 1842, the thirty-eight-year old Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote in his notebook: “To write a dream, which shall resemble the real course of...

 
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Happiness Secrets From The Staff Of Delivering Happiness At Work

fastcompany.com 22 May

Ebullient corporate culture helped grow Tony Hsieh's Zappos into a multibilliondollar shoeloving enterprise and spawned a consulting firm DHW. Here's...

 
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A Real-Life Tricorder That Lets You Scan Your Vitals At Home

fastcodesign.com 23 May

In the 1960s, on the set of Star Trek, the original tricorder was invented (for the unitiated: a tricorder is a handheld device that allowed for sensor scanning and data collection at Starfleet...

 
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Innovations in 5: Taxes, immigration and counterterrorism -- a week of calls for change

washingtonpost.com 9 hours ago

From immigration reform, to the IRS and corporate tax code hearings, this was a week full of calls for change.

 
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Infographic: The Signature Cocktails Of Your Favorite Fictional Boozehounds

fastcodesign.com 22 May

Don Draper drinks an Old Fashioned because he’s a man. Rocky Balboa drank his protein shakes--five raw eggs--for strength...

 
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