GoodArticles

http://www.gigwise.com/news/95155/stay-away-from-drugs-and-talent-judges-iggy-pops-john-peel-lecture
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/10/lone-geniuses-are-overrated/381340/
http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html
http://conceptualfiction.com/whenscifigrewup.html

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/08/troid-rage-why-game-devs-should-watch-alienand-pla.html
http://gamasutra.com/blogs/ThomasHenshell/20140807/222732/Why_Ive_Said_Goodbye_to_Mobile_in_Favor_of_PC.php
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/11/why-one-of-cybersecuritys-thought-leaders-uses-a-pager-instead-of-a-smart-phone/
http://theappendix.net/issues/2014/7/party-like-its-1999-japanese-retrofuturism-and-chrono-trigger
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/08/are-harvards-final-clubs-on-the-wrong-side-of-history/375699/
Privacy
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/how-to-invent-a-person-online/374837/

http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm
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How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name
FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver's newly launched website at ESPN, uses statistical analysis — hard numbers — to tell compelling stories about politics, science, economics, lifestyle, and sports.
Inside the Shadowy World of High-Speed Tennis Betting
FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver's newly launched website at ESPN, uses statistical analysis — hard numbers — to tell compelling stories about politics, science, economics, lifestyle, and sports.
Universities can’t fulfill the myth, but they can’t become vocational schools either
Universities come with a mythical mission. But they don't fulfill it.
Healthy eating: The case for eating steak and cream
Shifting the argument The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet. By Nina Teicholz. Simon & Schuster; 479 pages; $27.99. Buy from...

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Wednesday 04 February 2015

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David Graeber: “Spotlight on the financial sector did make apparent just how bizarrely skewed our economy is in terms of who gets rewarded” - Salon.com
David Graeber explains why the more your job helps others, the less you get paid

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Wednesday 04 February 2015


Bullshit

A Very Short History of LA Tech Re/code

https://thewinnower.com/discussions/what-happened-when-we-tried-to-publish-a-real-paper-investigating-time-travel

5 Steps Toward Effectively Communicating Your Feelings — Everyday Feminism

Goals Are For Losers

All Things Linguistic

No silver bullet: De-identification still doesn’t work

What Is a Bitcoin, Really?

BetterExplained - Quick Reference Guide

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How to Invent a Person Online - Curtis Wallen - The Atlantic
Is it possible to be truly anonymous in the digital world?


http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/08/are-harvards-final-clubs-on-the-wrong-side-of-history/375699/

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Anonymous Vows Action Over Shooting Death of Unarmed Teen
Anonymous, the hacktivist network, released a video message Sunday encouraging protests and threatening their own actions against the police who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown and left him for dead in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri.
Why one of cybersecurity’s thought leaders uses a pager instead of a smart phone - The Washington Post
A Q&A with Dan Geer.
Gamasutra: Thomas Henshell's Blog - Why I've Said Goodbye to Mobile in Favor of PC

'Troid Rage: Why Game Devs Should Watch Alien—and Play Metroid—Again :: Games :: Features :: Paste
"Metroidvania" designers too often forget why Metroid was so important.

http://hapgood.us/2014/08/14/the-web-is-broken-and-we-should-fix-it/

http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html

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Lone Geniuses Are Overrated - The Atlantic
In a very optimistic book published at a very pessimistic moment, Walter Isaacson explains how a group of oddballs and savants collaborated to create the world we live in today.
When Science Fiction Grew Up
How renegade sci-fi writers of the 1960s paved the way for today's blending of literary and genre fiction.
Read Iggy Pop's incredible John Peel lecture
Delivered last night on BBC 6 Music | Gigwise

http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/im-terrified-my-new-tv-why-im-scared-turn-thing

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html?_r=0
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Wednesday 04 February 2015

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Meeting strangers in the street « It's a Tarp
A story about the time I became obsessed with a mobile game that requires you to meet strangers
The Rise of the Professional Cyber Athlete

Keeping Secrets — STANFORD magazine — Medium
Four decades ago, university researchers figured out the key to computer privacy, sparking a battle with the National …

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/martine-rothblatt-she-founded-siriusxm-a-religion-and-a-biotech-for-starters/2014/12/11/5a8a4866-71ab-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_story.html

http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2014/11/incenser-or-how-nsa-and-gchq-are.html

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/2000_03_landfall.html



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