My favorite links from this week:
- This Is The Hollowed-Out World That Outrage Culture Has Created
- Dunkirk re-edited as a silent film
- Seriously, You — OK, We — need to stop watching the news this year
- The unreasonable efficiency of black holes
- The first humans in America may not have been homo sapiens
- Long Rise and Fade Fall of New York’s Black Mafia
- Land is underrated as a source of wealth
- The first photo of the moon from 1839
- Palm webOS gestures w/ voiceover from iPhone X keynote
- Why Do We Need to Sleep?
- Nissan reveals predictive brain-to-vehicle technology
- NSA’s top talent is leaving
- Don’t Be Evil
- Meltdown and Spectre
- What Self-Awareness Really Is
- Ancient Infant’s DNA Reveals New Clues to How the Americas Were Peopled
- How One Company Made It’s Analytics Investment Pay Off (and my take)
- You’re Descended from Royalty and So Is Everyone Else
- Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO Social Capital, on Money as an Instrument of Change
- Some good news, for once
- The Jobs that AI Will Create
- US road grid corrections because of earth’s curvature
- Dronestagram’s photo collection
- The Continental Divide Trail in 4 minutes
- Plants going up on SpaceX CRS-13
- Twilight of the Winterkeepers
- Act Last, Read the Room, and Taste the Soup
- Ask Dr. Time: Orality and Literacy from Homer to Twitter
- The Midlife Crisis Trilogy, Part 3
Have a great weekend!
