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Why college is a Girardian nightmare; *Big Little Lies* on HBO; Proust; memes; why America's greatest feature is both tolerance and rejection of mimesis.
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Transcript: The 10 Commandments of Startup Success with Reid Hoffman
When Reid Hoffman — who is rightly called “the Oracle of Silicon Valley” by many tech giants — returned to the podcast, I figured it would be popular, but it exploded. Many of you have …
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Don’t Take Your Marching Orders From Your Belly
During the Winter War, Finnish troops held off and often won astonishing victories against the Russian forces invading their country. Despite being vastly outnumbered and outgunned, they put up a heck of a fight by staying mobile, getting creative, and employing their most valuable weapon: their sisu, or grit. One of their improbable successes, however, …
‘Blade Runner’ Turns 35: The Unloved Film That Became a Classic
June 25 is the 35th anniversary of the 1982 Ridley Scott-directed “Blade Runner,” one of the all-time science-fiction classics. The long-planned sequel, “Blade Runner 2049,”…
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The world’s first elevator cable-free elevator zooms horizontally and vertically using maglev tech
It could help change the way that buildings are designed, as well as getting you to your floor faster.
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The Case Against Tail Vises - Popular Woodworking Magazine
If workbenches were like automobiles, then I’d consider the tail vise to be like the heated seats in a car. They’re an option, of course, but they are by no means standard equipment, like tires. Out of economic necessity, my first three workbenches didn’t have tail vises, and so I was thrilled when I was assigned to review a full-size European workbench with all the bells and whistles, including a …
The Kremlin's Election Meddling Is Paying Off
Neera Tanden argues that if Russia wanted its interference in U.S. democracy to yield dividends, it could hardly have hoped for more.
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The Case Against Work-Life Balance: Owning Your Future
Given my journey, you can imagine my first reaction to questions of work-life balance is fairly unsympathetic. I want to protest that, by legitimizing such a false dichotomy, you’re pre-empting a...
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Cats are an extreme outlier among domestic animals
Massive study of ancient and modern cat genomes reveals an unusual history.
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Gangs of aggressive killer whales are shaking down Alaska fishing boats for their fish: report
The animals have learned to target individual boats, and are leading fishers on high-speed chases to get away
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Tencent Unveils Plan to Create Electronic Sports Gaming Empire - Caixin Global
(Beijing) — As organized, multiplayer video game competitions — also known as esports, or electronic sports — continue to gain recognition in China ,…
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Guns and (Shea) Butter: An Oral History of 'Predator'
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the action-horror classic's release, THR spoke to key players who persevered through oppressive heat, bugs, a "red rubber chicken" and the diva-esque behavior of a future star (no, not that one) to launch a franchise.
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Fisticuffs Over the Route to a Clean-Energy Future
A Stanford professor’s vision of an economy wholly powered by renewable fuels has drawn a heated rebuttal from scholars who question many of its assumptions.
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America’s Long-Overdue Opioid Revolution Is Finally Here
Thanks to advances in neuroscience, researchers are beginning to disentangle powerful pain relief from addiction, overdose and death
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I Want to Write A History of Inequality, by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu - Uncanny Magazine
(Guest Post by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu.) My Hugo nomination has brought a sudden burst of media interest in China. Some have asked me how my life will be changed; I want to tell them there will be no change at all. The nominated story, “Folding Beijing,” was published two years ago in …
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BLADE RUNNER 2049 Making-Of Featurette (2017) Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling
SUBSCRIBE for more Movie Trailers HERE: https://goo.gl/Yr3O86 PLOT: Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan...
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Live from Mount Dickey as Alex Honnold Tackles His Next Big Climb
On the heels of his stunning free-solo climb of Yosemite’s El Cap, Alex Honnold tags along with Renan Ozturk and Freddie Wilkinson to take on the East Face of Alaska's Mount Dickey.
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An Exclusive Account Of Alex Honnold's Next Great Climb
Hot on the heels of his El Capitan triumph, Honnold is currently taking a crack at another daunting climb, the 5,250-foot Wine Bottle Tower route up Alaska's Mt. Dickey. Men's Journal is documenting the climb as it happens.
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China’s latest investor-funded startup is actually a 200-member girl band
SNH48, a Shanghai-based girl band, just raised $150 million from investors in a month.
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Amazon’s New Customer
The key to understanding Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods is to understand that Amazon didn’t buy a retailer: the company bought a customer.
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He Built Roads. He Oversaw Mines. He Shrank the Deficit. He Was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
GOETHE Life as a Work of Art By Rüdiger Safranski Translated by David Dollenmayer 651 pp. Liveright Publishing. $35. In many instances, the Germans have been…
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No Disc-Respect
After decades of being thought of as a pseudo-sport for longhairs, ultimate Frisbee is attracting elite athletes who are landing professional contracts. The hero of this new breed is Beau Kittredge, who looks like an NFL wide receiver, sprints like an Olympian, and jumps like Jordan.
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Conrad Anker On Ueli Steck's Final Climb
Mountaineer Conrad Anker writes about the death of the sport's fastest, most misunderstood climber — the likes of which we may never see again.
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Craig Venter's ‘Digital-to-Biological Converter’ Is Real
Right now, it prints proteins. In the far future, it could print human babies on Mars.
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The rise of Donald Trump is a battle for the soul of the Republican party
A billionaire businessman is on the verge of completing a hostile takeover of the Grand Old Party, leaving insiders wondering – how did we get here?
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React.js and How Does It Fit In With Everything Else?
To help me better understand React.js, I wrote down what was confusing me about React in a series of questions then wrote more code, researched and answered each in this post.
