1. People v mosquitos: what to do about our biggest killer by Timothy Winegard (The Guardian) 2. A Stunning New Study Shows How Fast North America’s Birds Are Disappearing (Mother Jones) and The Quiet Disappearance of Birds in North America (The Atlantic) 3. Superbug hotspots emerging in farms across globe (The Guardian) 4. What the Jeffrey Epstein Case Says About Elite Men (Bloomberg)
1. Dematerialization and What It Means for the Economy — and Climate Change (podcast with Andrew McAfee, co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (Harvard Business Review) 2. Richard Prum: How Does Beauty Evolve? (book, JSTOR) 3. They Are What You Eat. A visit to the headquarters of your favorite mall foods. (society, food, NYT) 4. Luxury is Shit (The Outline)
1. With Harvard as the Backdrop, NBA Players Learn Business from the Best and Brightest (Sports Illustrated) After NBA representives noticed the interest across the league and reached out, Elberse and others put together the mentor-based program that gives athletes insight into the business world by pairing them with second-year MBA students who share similar interests. The program, which started with only NBA players, has been expanded to include players from the WNBA and NFL, […]
1. The Old New Trend of Sober Curiosity (society, culture, JSTOR) 2. The Gospel of Oil by Kim Phillips-Fein (history, books, Boston Review) Oil executives themselves historically have been among the most active and enthusiastic promoters of apocalyptic Christianity in the United States, their zeal to drill representing their religious passion as well as their quest for self-enrichment. 3. The Economics Of Artificial Intelligence – How Cheaper Predictions Will Change The World (AI, Forbes) 4. […]
1. Being Human in the Days/Daze of Big Data by Jeremy Pitt (AI, Technology and Society) 2. Straw Wars by Seth Stevenson (society, recycling, Slate) 3. What does ‘living fully’ mean? Welcome to the age of pseudo-profound nonsense (society, The Guardian) 4. Science is deeply imaginative: why is this treated as a secret? by Tom McLeish (science, aeon) Bonus: This heated fake keyboard was designed to fool your cat (via BoingBoing)
1. The Lattimer Massacre Happened More Than a Century Ago. The Sheriff’s Account of the Killing Could Have Been Written Yesterday. (history, Slate) 2. Britain’s Broken Parliament (cities, The Atlantic) 3. Ship of horrors: life and death on the lawless high seas by Ian Urbina (society, The Guardian) 4. Teens are anxious and depressed after three hours a day on social media (science, MIT technology Review)and the original article: Riehm KE, Feder KA, Tormohlen KN, […]
1. What cell-cultured meat tells us about culture (food, new-culture) 2. Bare necessities: would you brush up against naked performers to get inside Marina Abramović’s 2020 London show? (art) 3. You Can’t Keep Your Parents’ Skulls (society, Atlantic) 4. Police Use of Facial Recognition Is Accepted by British Court (AI, NYT)
1. The science of senolytics: how a new pill could spell the end of ageing (medicine, The Guardian) 2. The ‘ghost work’ powering tech magic (society, BBC) 3. The Geography of Risk by Gilbert M. Gaul (economics, Longreads) Americans have built $3 trillion worth of property in some of the riskiest places on earth, so why do taxpayers have to pay for the hurricane damage to rich coastal communities? 4. America, the Gerontocracy by Timothy Noah […]
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