Despair, remorse and hope for writers in the Digital Age “There was an arrogance among us. We snickered at the departing media dinosaurs, and imagined ourselves to be the new stars of the show—the future of our industry. The future was short lived. It wasn’t too long before we were the dinosaurs, ushered out by […]
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Tweet by SamMillerBP
2015.03.31 – 17:14
A GM cares about winning exclusively. It is his stand-in for values. But *you* don't have to. You can value anything. — Sam Miller (@SamMillerBP) March 31, 2015 via https://twitter.com/SamMillerBP
YouTube: F for Fake (1973) – How to Structure a Video Essay
2015.03.31 – 16:07
F for Fake (1973) – How to Structure a Video Essay Every Frame a Painting
Quote from Tumblr
2015.03.31 – 09:00
Planets form like dust bunnies under your bed. Dr. Scott Kenyon kenarneson.tumblr.com
Creationism dismissed as ‘a kind of paganism’ by Vatican’s astronomer
2015.03.30 – 08:51
Creationism dismissed as ‘a kind of paganism’ by Vatican’s astronomer “Religion needs science to keep it away from superstition and keep it close to reality, to protect it from creationism, which at the end of the day is a kind of paganism – it’s turning God into a nature god. And science needs religion in […]
Tweet by cdixon
2015.03.30 – 08:47
Two great CA laws that promote innovation: 1) ban on non-compete agreements 2) "moonlighting laws" that protect employee side projects. — Chris Dixon (@cdixon) March 30, 2015 via https://twitter.com/cdixon
Conservatarian Dilemmas 2: Social Issues
2015.03.30 – 07:27
Conservatarian Dilemmas 2: Social Issues from: March 30, 2015 at 07:10AM
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/415994/reflections-cooke-manifesto-yuval-levin
2015.03.29 – 19:55
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/415994/reflections-cooke-manifesto-yuval-levin “Success in the coming era will increasingly involve effectively navigating a profusion of smaller networks, and a government that wants to help people flourish will need to retool—focusing more on enabling bottom-up, incremental improvements and less on managing top-down, centralized systems. Both empowering individuals and offering them security will look rather different in this […]
Against Empathy
2015.03.29 – 09:37
Against Empathy ‘Charles Goodman notes the distinction in Buddhists texts between “sentimental compassion,” which corresponds to empathy, and “great compassion,” which involves love for others without empathetic attachment or distress. Sentimental compassion is to be avoided, as it “exhausts the bodhisattva.” Goodman defends great compassion, which is more distanced and reserved and can be sustained […]
YouTube: Christopher G. Brown’s Teletubbies Joy Division Edit
2015.03.28 – 17:33
Christopher G. Brown’s Teletubbies Joy Division Edit christophergbrownify
Teaching evolution to religious students
2015.03.27 – 18:59
Teaching evolution to religious students from: March 27, 2015 at 06:52PM
Theory that income inequality is actually about housing
2015.03.27 – 09:20
Theory that income inequality is actually about housing
Tweet by BFI
2015.03.26 – 12:12
“It’s the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers.” – Michael Haneke #bornonthisday pic.twitter.com/T0BtY1qcim — BFI (@BFI) March 23, 2015 via https://twitter.com/BFI
CRISPR Natural History in Bacteria | Quanta Magazine
2015.03.26 – 09:57
CRISPR Natural History in Bacteria | Quanta Magazine “Using two Cas9 enzymes, the scientists could make a pair of snips, chopping out any segment of DNA they wanted. They could then coax a cell to stitch a new gene into the open space. Doudna and her colleagues thus invented a biological version of find-and-replace — […]
Tweet by yongfook
2015.03.26 – 09:24
How startups work, explained in 14 lines of JavaScript pic.twitter.com/HYd2l20Ish — yongfook (@yongfook) March 25, 2015 via https://twitter.com/yongfook
The Uncanny Valley Hypothesis Applied to Negotiating Strategy
2015.03.25 – 19:32
The Uncanny Valley Hypothesis Applied to Negotiating Strategy from: March 25, 2015 at 07:18PM
The Research & Science Behind Finding Your Best Profile Picture
2015.03.25 – 19:32
The Research & Science Behind Finding Your Best Profile Picture from: March 25, 2015 at 07:13PM