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Recommended Reading: What Kurt Vonnegut Can Teach Us About Coping with the Internet

  • February 12, 2018
‘We can remember that between one post a decade ago and now, there were endless versions of ourselves and others, changing and choosing.’ I’m a firm believer that the key…
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Recommended Reading: How Spotify Beat Apple to Charting the Future of Music

  • January 23, 2018
Spotify beat back the scourge of streaming album exclusives, and now it’s ready to go public. Here’s what it says about how fans value artists and platforms. Source: How Spotify…
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Recommended Reading: ‘The Good War’ How WWII Nostalgia Warped the Response to 9/11

  • January 12, 2018
I highly recommend this read, The Good War  is a graphic essay by Mike Dawson and Chris Hayes that posits that the nostalgia for World War II seen during the…
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Regular Ibuprofen Use May Increase Risk of Fertility Issues in Men

  • January 9, 2018
Here’s some interesting news for those of you who take ibuprofen regularly. A small cohort of 31 healthy young men who took 600mg of ibuprofen twice a day for six…
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Recommended Reading: How the baby boomers – not millennials – screwed America

  • December 22, 2017
The boomers inherited a rich, dynamic country and have gradually bankrupted it. Millennials, myself included, take a beating. We’re spoiled, entitled, over-educated yet under-skilled, and are too reliant on technology.…
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Recommended Reading: Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear

  • December 19, 2017
Ted Chiang is well known for his science fiction writing, specifically his short story  Story of Your Life, which became the basis for  Arrival  and can be found in his…
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Recommended Reading: Deliverance From 27,000 Feet

  • December 18, 2017
Take 30 minutes and go get lost in  this completely engrossing story by John Branch  about the recovery of the bodies of two Indian climbers near the summit of Everest.…
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Recommended Reading: Guess Which Schools and Degrees Produce the Most Student Loan Defaults? Hint: It’s Not the Humanities

  • December 15, 2017
There’s a lot of talk in the news this week about the number of people defaulting on student loans. We’re told that the student loan crises is due almost entirely…
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Universal Basic Income Explained

  • December 7, 2017
Oooh, Kurzgesagt takes on one of my favorite subjects today and tries to explain the concepts behind Universal Basic Income (UBI) in a brief 10 minutes. Included is a pretty…
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Recommended Reading: The Ethics of Using Brain Implants to Upgrade Yourself

  • November 14, 2017
Neurotechnology is a hot area of future tech that’s becoming less and less “future.” The technological achievements so far are pretty miraculous: paralyzed people gaining control of robotic limbs and…
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Recommended Reading: Something is Wrong on the Internet

  • November 7, 2017
James Bridle is a writer and artist based London who has noticed that  something is wrong on the internet. Well, there’s a lot wrong on the internet. But, more specifically,…
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