Tag: links
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The French, Coming Apart » The real-estate market in any sophisticated city reflects deep aspirations and fears. more ›
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How down-at-heel Lisbon became the new capital of cool » Four years ago, Portugal’s capital felt like a ‘city on its knees’. Now it is being touted as hip, cheap… more ›
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What made Xerox PARC special? Who else today is like them? » A good book (pretty much the only good book) to read about the research community that Parc was… more ›
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The Crisis of Attention Theft—Ads That Steal Your Time for Nothing in Return » By now, it is pretty well understood that we regularly pay for things in ways other… more ›
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Who are the new jihadis? » There is something new about the jihadi terrorist violence of the past two decades. more ›
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How the Roland TR-808 revolutionized music » “Fresh like, uh, Impala, uh, chrome hydraulics, 808 drums” —The Game, “How We Do” If you’re into hip-hop and pop, you’ve probably heard… more ›
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Meet the Artist Using Ritual Magic to Trap Self-Driving Cars » Is it a silly prank, a Pagan ritual, or a genius discovery about the next era of mass transit? In a picture… more ›
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Living a Lie: We Deceive Ourselves to Better Deceive Others » People mislead themselves all day long. We tell ourselves we’re smarter and better looking than our friends, that our… more ›
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How The New York Times, CNN, and The Huffington Post approach publishing on platforms » Publishing used to be relatively simple. You published a newspaper once a day or produced… more ›
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The Arrival of Artificial Intelligence » The history of computers is often told as a history of objects, from the abacus to the Babbage engine up through the code-breaking machines… more ›