A school set up by a local couple in the capital is welcoming children from conflict areas with education and psychological support | Continue reading
There are dozens of studies showing how far humans will go to avoid uncertainty, forgoing far greater potential payoffs in favor of just knowing what they’re getting right now. Is it actually true that there are dozens? I have no idea. But there’s at least one, which means it’s u … | Continue reading
Escape from New York was John Carpenter's most ambitious and biggest-budget film to date, and his first choices to handle visual effects were Jim Danforth (7 Faces of Dr. Lao) and John Dykstra, the latter the talk of the special effects world for his Academy Award-winning work on … | Continue reading
Scale relies on Mode Analytics for internal SQL and Python based reporting and analytics, helping power our operations, insights and business decisions. Many of these reports we set to run on a schedule, so that we can always go to a report and see data that’s no more than fiftee … | Continue reading
Maine 2018. Made with Mamiya 6, with Kodak Portra 400. Aperture f 3.5. Shutter speed 1/250th of a second. (Cross posted to Instagram) “Silence is essential for deep transformation. It allows … | Continue reading
I’ve just read this excellent short article about side projects http://davemart.in/resistance/. Everything there is very true — only it… | Continue reading
Recently, I decided to plunge head first into the world of GraphQL to create a backend API for a mobile app I’m developing. I briefly… | Continue reading
A mellow day, warmish and dry. People were happy with themselves and with each other. | Continue reading
“My dad does two jobs. Sometimes he does fire fighter. And sometimes he does police officer and fights crimes for the city by using smarts and helping people. He says that the bad guys don’t always mean to steal, but they feel like they have to because their families are poor. … | Continue reading
iPhone sales are flat, but revenues are up 29 percent | Continue reading
Whether you‘re looking for a next pick at the library or wishing to learn as much about a new topic as possible in one day, Blinkist… | Continue reading
“Higher wages prompt improvements in productivity”. This is one of the central claims in the IPPR’s report this week. But I wonder: how true is it? Certainly, it can be for individual firms. An employer who pays better than the... | Continue reading
These 5 cryptos experienced double-digit price increases this week. | Continue reading
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego have grown tiny human brains that have expressed similar electrical output to premature babies. | Continue reading
The new easy-to-use device can quickly screen for a variety of diseases including Zika and cancer—and costs less than $1. | Continue reading
In the 19th century, pumpkin pie ignited a culture war. | Continue reading
Gathering detailed information on exoplanets is extremely difficult. The light from their host star overwhelms the light from the exoplanet, making it difficult for telescopes to see them. But now a team using cutting-edge technology at the Keck Observatory has taken a big leap i … | Continue reading
Science journals are laughing all the way to the bank, locking the results of publicly funded research behind exorbitant paywalls. A campaign to make content free must succeed | Continue reading
Somewhere between 80,000 and 50,000 years ago, Africa saved Homo sapiens from extinction. Charting the DNA shared by more than six billion people, a population geneticist—and director of the Genographic Project—suggests what humanity "owes" its first home. | Continue reading
Capital markets regulation in both the US and EU currently manifests an outdated standard that is paternalistic in its overprotection of… | Continue reading
There's growing appetite among Republicans for regulating big tech companies. | Continue reading
An intense fight over an arcane policy document reveals that Health Canada has figured out how to lower patented drug prices. But the pharmaceutical industry is fighting back with threats about access to new drugs in Canada. | Continue reading
A few years ago I started doing jigsaw puzzles again. I found my way back to this hobby when I realized that putting together jigsaw puzzles of art pieces could teach you a lot about a painting. In… | Continue reading
The movie Three Kings (1999) is an example of U.S military propaganda featuring in Hollywood productions. Propaganda and the mass media. Propaganda in movies. | Continue reading
While I was researching my new book How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius, I stumbled across a Newsweek article about Marcus Aurelius, from 2010, written by aut… | Continue reading
The scourge of autumn, annoyer of millions. Can anyone stop the seasonal siege of gas-powered landscaping equipment? | Continue reading