Humans Need Not Apply CGP Grey
Three Stories about Capitalism from: September 8, 2014 at 12:13PM
Behind the scenes with the Coen brothers from: September 8, 2014 at 11:16AM
Fantastically Wrong: Why People Were Terrified of Nighttime Air Until the 1900s from: September 8, 2014 at 11:02AM
Frans de Waal: Do Animals Have Morals? “The point is, of course, that a lot of our moral tendencies are not things that we arrive at by reasoning and logic – ’cause that’s often the philosophers. They think that way. They think we reason ourselves through moral principles. But underneath there are very strong emotions. […]
How Life Made the Leap From Single Cells to Multicellular Animals | Science | WIRED “In the species Salpingoeca rosetta, which lives in coastal estuaries, the cell prepares to divide but stops short of splitting apart, leaving two daughter cells connected by a thin filament. The process repeats, creating rosettes or spheres containing as many as […]
Click Like You Give a Damn: The Politics of Linkbait and How Feeding on Buzz Ensures a Malnourished Soul from: September 8, 2014 at 8:47AM
Evolution is a relentless optimizer. David Cox kenarneson.tumblr.com
How to see into the future The attributes of “superpredictors”
One Man’s Year of Digital Detox ‘Because most Web services are “free”—that is, supported by advertising—their very survival depends on distracting and bewitching their users. Silicon Valley software engineers design apps that way on purpose; they’re quite clever at it.’
The Data Genius Behind BuzzFeed’s Success “Meet Dao Nguyen. She helped BuzzFeed quintuple traffic in two years.”
Scientists discover how to ‘switch off’ autoimmune diseases “It’s hoped this latest insight will lead to the widespread use of antigen-specific immunotherapy as a treatment for many autoimmune disorders, including multiple sclerosis (MS), type 1 diabetes, Graves’ disease and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).”
The Universe, “Branes,” and the Science of Multiple Dimensions from: September 3, 2014 at 9:02PM
The end of Big Twitter from: August 31, 2014 at 10:15PM
Accidental Greatness — Medium “It’s such a great picture that I have to enter the gallery and look at this photographer’s other work. And that is when it becomes interesting because although the place is full of the person’s other work, all of it is mediocre crap. Bad calendar art, the many pictures are all […]
Why Didn’t the Tiv have a State? “In essence these religious cults were a way of stopping anybody from becoming too powerful. Bohannan explains this as: Men who had acquired too much power … were whittled down by means of witchcraft accusations… Nyambua was one of a regular series of movements to which Tiv political action, […]
Worked things out with The Wirecutter – Marco.org “Much of the stress I felt during this is from the amount of access to me that I grant to the public. A few months ago, Howard Stern pulled back from Twitter for this reason, after being flamed ruthlessly whenever he said anything, and raised a great […]
Game Theory, Team Reasoning, and a Bit about Sport Too “Social choice theory is beset by scenarios—the “prisoner’s dilemma”, the “stag hunt”, the “tragedy of the commons”, and so on—in which a group of individuals each choosing for themselves are all too likely to miss the result that they want most. Team reasoning avoids these […]