May
- Bjarke Ingels says a style is "like a straitjacket" #architecture #Ingels
- She Had Stage 4 Lung Cancer, and a Mountain to Climb #aconcagua #mountains #resilience
- London Synphony orchestra, noche luminosa #Simon Rattle
- The 2019 Everest Death Toll Rises to 11 #mountain
- The Indiana Jones of Climate Science #climate #mountain
- Marcus Aurelius on Embracing Mortality and the Key to Living with Presence #marco_aurelio
- Does Climbing Everest Alter Your Genetic Code? #mountain #science #twins
- How computing's first 'killer app' changed everything
- Putting Los Niños in Charge - Abasto Shopping or what to do for the children in... #nytimes #abasto
- Fixing a toxic work culture: How to encourage active bystanders
- The radical plan to change how antibiotics get developed
- Merging financial savvy and engineering solutions: paradoxes about the academia and the financial state of the art
- Productivity and the joy of doing things the hard way
June
- A behavioral economist explores poverty and development #economics #social sciences #humanities
- What 10,000 Steps Will Really Get You #fitbit
- The Ennui of the Fitbit #fitbit
- Scientists Save Schrödinger's Cat
- A 3-D printer powered by machine vision and artificial intelligence
- Why Were Medieval Europeans So Obsessed With Long, Pointy Shoes? #cultural_insight #medieval #shoes
- Energy expenditure using isotope-labelled water (2H218O), exercise performance, skeletal muscle enzyme activities and plasma biochemical parameters in humans during 95 days of endurance exercise with inadequate energy intake via Have We Really Found the Limit of Human Endurance?
- Applying to graduate school with impostor syndrome #psychology #syndrome
- A YouTube binge helped invent a new way to diagnose Parkinson's #parkinson #disease
- They Introduced the World to Songs of Slavery. It Almost Broke Them #spirituals #music
- Engineers set the standards #standards
- Cerro Torre alpine style #Cerro_Torre #mountains
- Cerro Torre query on American Alpine Club #Cerro_Torre
- How to build something that lasts 10000 years #engineering
- Aerospace Projects Review Blog- Unbuilt aircraft and spacecraft projects #aerospace #aircraft
- Language wars: the 19 greatest linguistic spats of all time #language #theguardian
- How Necking Shaped the Giraffe #nature #nautil.us
- Glacial Trekking in Patagonia #patagonia
- Argentina’s blackout and the storm-battered future of the grid #Ars_Technica
- Machine Learning: Living in the age of AI #Wired #documentary
- The Hospital Is Too Damn Loud
- Weird, Wonderful Photos From Another Era #memorabilia
- Weird, Wonderful Photos From the Archives
- OK, So Here’s The Real Story Of Where ‘OK’ Comes From
- Who Has Jurisdiction for Crimes Committed in Space? #law
- Translating proteins into music, and back #MIT #proteins_becomes_music
- Tokyo in the 1970s, a pre-blade runner city #photography
- Game of Thrones: a battle of reality versus fantasy #wired #Yuval Noah Harari
July
- The Music of silks #MIT #music
- Why plants don’t die from cancer #Chernobyl #cancer #nature
- The clever cryptography behind Apple's 'Find my' feature #Apple #cryptography
- Top British churches of the past 100 years #architecture #british #the_guardian
- Why we see the colors of faces differently than other things #perception #wired
- A retired teacher found some seahorses off Long Beach. Then he built a secret world for them #science #seahorses
- Quiénes pueden llevar la ciencia de los datos a la función pública #science #scrapping #accesibility #sarraute #data #argentina
- The end of capitalism has begun #economics
- How the Plastics Industry Is Fighting to Keep Polluting the World
- Do our pets ever really love us – or do they just stick around for the food?
- How air conditioning created the modern city #insight #cities #urbanism
- The patient mathematician #MIT #mathematician
August
- This Is the Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry #economics #beef
- ‘I don’t smell!’ Meet the people who have stopped washing #the_guardian #marketing #cultural
- The Dollar-And-Cents Case Against Hollywood’s Exclusion of Women #economics #gender #psychology
- The myth of self-control #xiam #psychology #behaviour
- The Benefits of Optimism Are Real #resilience
- Does cable news shape your views? #MIT #insight #media
- The World’s Wealthiest Family Gets $4 Million Richer Every Hour #Bloomberg #insight #economy
- Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture #islamic #architecture
- Why Are Little Kids in Japan So Independent? #japan #behaviour #social #citylab
- The world’s top deepfake artist is wrestling with the monster he created #deepfake #ai
- How Language Shapes Our Perception of Reality #language #insight #cognitive #perception
- UK rail line becomes first in world to be powered by solar farm #solar #environment #the_guardian
- There’s a dark side to meditation that no one talks about #meditation #zen #insight #health #mental #makyo
- A very deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild #security #ios #apple
September
- How to Really Listen to Music #music #insight
- MIT report examines how to make technology work for society #insight #work #future #MIT
- Malcolm Gladwell on the consequences of misreading a stranger #insight #ideas
- David Fincher's opening titles retrospective #filming #insight
- Uncovering links between architecture, politics, and society #architecture #insight #politics #social
- A New Timeline of the Day the Dinosaurs Began to Die Out #insight #science #dinosaur
- When rats work to protect human safety #cultural relations #insight #nature #animals #rats
- Flirty or Friendzone? New AI Scans Your Texts for True Love #relations #insight #wired #ai
- AI Could Reinvent Medicine—Or Become a Patient's Nightmare #Wired #AI #medicine
- Open-minded people have a different visual perception of reality #perception #insight
- Curiosity Depends on What You Already Know #curiosity #insight #mindset
- how to do nothing #insight #mindset #idea
- Jenny Odell on why we need to learn to do nothing: ‘It's a reminder that you're alive’ #insight #mindset #idea
- Using math to blend musical notes seamlessly #portamento #music #idea
October
- This AI Can Spot Art Forgeries by Looking at One Brushstroke #ai #algorithm #technology_review
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Personalized medicine: Time for one-person trials #trial #xiam #nature #science
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Patient-Customized Oligonucleotide Therapy for a Rare Genetic Disease #trial #xiam #personal_drug #science
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Scientists Designed a Drug for Just One Patient #trial #xiam #personal_drug #science
- Busting the myth that depression doesn't affect people in poor countries #disorder #depression #the_guardian
- The mystery of the missing Leonardo: where is Da Vinci’s $450m Jesus? #missing #leonardo_da_vinci #the_guardian #art
- Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor #algorithm #poverty #the_guardian #insight
- How the Bauhaus Kept the Nazis at Bay, Until It Couldn’t #bauhaus #architecture #regime #citylab
- Catalonia has created a new kind of online activism. Everyone should pay attention #barcelona #friend-to-friend #topology #anonymity #social_activism
- Deploying drones to prepare for climate change #insight #drones #MIT #climate_change #climate_refugees
- Carl Safina Is Certain Your Dog Loves You #insight #dog #science #cognition
- Hello quantum world! Google publishes landmark quantum supremacy claim #google #quantum #computing #nature
- Why sexist bias in natural history museums really matters #google #sexism #bias #the_guardian #museum
- The Necessity of Musical Hallucinations #insight #music #science #cognition
- State of the Art: Banksy’s legendary prank reveals the paradox of spectacle #Banksy #art #paradox
- 'Sober but very immoral': What Victorian-era 'poverty maps' tell us about London today #poverty #data_visualization #maps #the_guardian
- She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? #sponsorship #everest #the_guardian #tibetan_woman
“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”
November
- Blue spaces: why time spent near water is the secret of happiness #insight #nature
- Philip Glass Is Too Busy to Care About Legacy #insight #music #minimalism
- If traumatic brain injuries can impact the parts of the brain responsible for personality, judgment, and impulse control, maybe injury should be a mitigating factor in criminal trials #brain #justice #science #judgment
- The Story of Sandworm, the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers #wired #hackers
- The ABCs of SOS #rescue #tips
- China's social credit system is coming for businesses too #economics #china
- Where Do Hippos Wander? An Aquatic Mystery, Solved #hippos #science #insight #wandering #wired
- New artificial intelligence system automatically evolves to evade internet censorship #censorship #algorithm #ai
- Why Lionel Messi is the perfect mathematician #Messi #mathematics #insight
- Tesis de doctorado del Dr. René Favaloro #Favaloro #science #digital
- Nestlé Is Sucking the World’s Aquifers Dry #natural_resources #water #scarcity
- How Discovering an Equation for Altruism Cost George Price Everything #altruism #science #nautil.us #equation #mathematics
- New boiler, £0? The plumber, hairdresser and beautician who work for free #altruism #the_guardian #society
- Drawing With Drones Over the Salt Flats of Bolivia #Bolivia #nature #photography #dron #wired
- How the Dumb Design of a WWII Plane Led to the Macintosh #design #insight #ideas #wired
- Cells That ‘Taste’ Danger Set Off Immune Responses #xiam #autoimmune #insight
- Women suffer needless pain because almost everything is designed for men #unbiased #gender #insight
- Why did Iran shut off the internet for the entire country? #Irán #firewall #network
- Observing the cell in its native state: Imaging subcellular dynamics in multicellular organisms #xiam #autoimmune #insight #nature
- The Japanese words for “space” could change your view of the world #tour-of-thought #japanese #insight #space
December
- How Notre Dame is being rebuilt from 50 billion scraps of data #laser #photogrammetry #architecture #church #notre_dame
- What’s at Stake Is the Future of Humankind #Yvon_Chouinard #insight #ideas #human_race #patagonia
- The Atlas Obscura Guide To London #tourism #london #unknown
- What I've learned from 10,000 nights at the theatre #the_guardian #theater #insight
- The Champion Who Picked a Date to Die #nytimes #hope #euthanasia #sports #death
- Small talk is cheap: Finland could teach us the art of keeping quiet #the_guardian #finland #silence #culture
- Yuval Noah Harari Is Worried About Our Souls #nautilus #insight #science #yuval_harari
- How visualising death can help us accept it #death #insight
- The Humanoid Stain #insight #art #ancient #the_baffler
- After 25 years of being homeless, I learned there’s one simple thing you can do to help #insight #life #valentín #invisible
- Welcome to Pleistocene Park #science #mammuth #pleistocene #the_atlantic
- How do blind people enjoy the Mona Lisa? #3d #blindness #art
- Practice makes perfect, but not always #education #piano #music #perseverance
- La edad, al parecer, sí está en tu mente #health #science
- It’s Putin’s World. We Just Live in It #russia #politics #policy #state_of_the_art
- New York City introduces bill to make glass buildings more bird-friendly #birds #protection #bill #legislation
- Glass Farm by MVRDV #illusion-delusion #architecture #reconstruction #holland #dezeen
- Is veganism as good for you as they say? #insight #science #veganism
- Ethical veganism #insight #law #veganism
- Can ethics be taught? #philosophy #insight #mit_sloan
- Ancient DNA Is Rewriting Human (and Neanderthal) History #science #DNA #neanderthal