Recommended Reading: Something is Wrong on the Internet
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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Recommended Reading: 20 of America’s top political scientists gathered to discuss our democracy. They’re scared.
Is American democracy in decline? Should we be worried? According to Sean Illing’s report from a recent gathering of political scientists at Yale the answer is yes. The state of…
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Recommended Reading: Half the universe’s missing matter has just been finally found
We’ve long know that a lot of the matter in the galaxy was unaccounted for its evidence was visible through gravitational force but its presence was not observable. Now, two…
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Recommended Reading: ‘Our minds can be hijacked’
Paul Lewis had a pretty jarring and ominous article in this weekend’s Guardian about the qualms some of Silicon Valleys most prominent inventors are feeling over their creations. Facebook, Twitter…
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Recommended Reading: This little light: On fathers, sons and that little lamp in the Pixar logo
At some point during that day, my dad played with me with a tennis ball. John Lasseter, an artist who worked with him, watched us, and suddenly the short film…
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Recommended Reading: A Newly-Discovered Kurt Vonnegut Short Story
While digging through Kurt Vonnegut’s archives at Indiana University, Dan Wakefield and Jerome Klinkowitz discovered five short stories that had never been published before. Today, The Atlantic posted one of…
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Recommended Reading: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Trump and White Supremacy
The Atlantic published a new essay by Ta-Nehisi Coates today on Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and white supremacy. I’d file this one under essential reading. Coates writes: For Trump, it…
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Recommended Reading: John Lanchester on Facebook
John Lanchester wrote a lengthy essay on Facebook for the London Review of Books and it’s well worth the 15 minutes or so it takes to read. It’s engaging, eye-opening…
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100 Great Works of Dystopian Fiction
Vulture compiled a fantastic list of 100 Great Works of Dystopian Fiction, “tales about a world gone wrong”. Stand out entries on the list include some of the earliest examples…
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Recommended Reading: A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof
As one grim atrocity follows another in unexpected place, from unexpected people I understand that our initial collective reaction is to simply call the perpetrator evil and never want to…
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Recommended Reading: Everything That’s Inside Your iPhone
We are so separated from the manufacture of goods today that it’s hard to comprehend how an iPhone is even put together, let alone where and how the raw elements…
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