‘Racing Bicycles’ Book Review – Cycling Explained with Art
It’s late June, which means La Grande Boucle will soon be under way. Everyone knows that right? Well, maybe not. Despite cycling having been around since the mid-1800’s the average…
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How to Take Honest, High-Quality Photos with Your iPhone
During the recent Adobe 99U conference, Brooklyn-based Aundre Larrow discussed his work as a portrait photographer and the importance of “honest photography.” Larrow describes honest photography as “pictures that don’t rely…
Maybe it is Possible to Catch Up on Sleep Afterall
I sleep in late whenever I can. I don’t pull of 11 or even noon like I did as a teenager anymore, but if I can stay in bed until…
Recommended Reading: Headlines making you anxious? Delay reading them
For The Guardian, Oliver Burkeman writes about the benefits of delaying your news reading. One excellent way to stay calm but well-informed, I’ve found, is to consume the news a day…
Carl Sagan’s “Baloney Detection Kit”
Mass disinformation campaigns and anti-intellectualism are increasingly becoming part of the political landscape in the US and elsewhere. Politics isn’t new to lying, but the global reach and outright contempt…
Toys R Us to close all 800 of its U.S. stores
End of an era. I distinctly remember wandering the aisles of Toys R Us as a kid, stumbling upon the Nintendo Virtual Boy and thinking that was the future. Turns…
Inside the booming black market for Spotify playlists
Very interesting read on the new payola: Gone are the days of hustling in parking lots, selling mixtapes out of the trunk of your car. In the modern music economy,…
Recommended Reading: The Teens Will Save Us
Dina Leygerman is a high school teacher who turns her classroom into a totalitarian regime every year to help teach George Orwell’s novel 1984 to her students. Much like Oceania, rules are strict and…
Apple Watch Sales Beat Combined Swiss Watch Sales
Totaling watch sales through year-end 2017, every Swiss watch maker combined outsold the Apple Watch — 24 million to 18 million. But the final quarter of 2017 marked a major…
Recommended Reading: What Kurt Vonnegut Can Teach Us About Coping with the Internet
‘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…
Recommended Reading: How Spotify Beat Apple to Charting the Future of Music
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…