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‘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…

How to Take Honest, High-Quality Photos with Your iPhone

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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

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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

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Carl Sagan’s “Baloney Detection Kit”

Posted on April 3, 2018
byKevin Curry

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

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Toys R Us to close all 800 of its U.S. stores

Posted on March 15, 2018
byKevin Curry

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

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Inside the booming black market for Spotify playlists

Posted on March 13, 2018
byKevin Curry

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

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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…