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Facebook Messenger was down for me for about an hour earlier this week. My MacBook Pro randomly kernel panics overnight and restarts. Slack was down, and Github, and AWS. A little more than a year… Source: Move slow and break nothing | TechCrunch
How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise Source: Power Causes Brain Damage – The Atlantic
But some music scholars have doubts. Source: A Study Suggests That People Can Hear Universal Traits in Music – The Atlantic
Today, Fstoppers was at the DJI Event in NYC where they announced the Mavic Air. After learning about this drone and seeing examples of photo and video it had produced, I knew that I had to get my hands on one of them to try out. As a current owner of a Mavic Pro, there…
Codeless development platforms are at once a blessing and a curse. If they’re complete enough to be powerful they are too difficult for beginners and if they’re simple enough for beginners… Source: Zeroqode will usher us into a codeless future | TechCrunch
My previous article, The web began dying in 2014, here’s how, raised much more awareness than I thought it would. Many people found it to be an insightful analysis of the web under the control of tech giants, but the article ended without providing anything positive to hold on to. I actually have hope for…
Native Instruments is launching Sounds.com today as a one-stop resource for samples, loops, and instruments sounds designed for producers and creators. Source: Native Instruments new Sounds.com is a music-makers wet dream
But is it due to nature or nurture? Source: Study Shows Hunter-Gatherers are Virtuosos at Identifying Smells | Inverse
Two years after the largest natural gas leak in US history, people living near the California facility say they’re suffering from a variety of illnesses. Source: Mysterious Illnesses Are Plaguing People In California After A Massive Gas Leak
And dying doctors are making it happen. Source: The Evolution of Death and Medicine in the Modern Age | Inverse
The best hour you’ll likely ever spend in a funeral home. Source: A Mortician’s Tale: a game that will make you look at death differently – The Verge
Life finds a way. Source: Matias is building the wired Mac keyboards that Apple won’t – The Verge
‘Do we really need that second car?’ Source: Lyft thinks we can end traffic congestion and save $1 trillion by selling our second cars – The Verge
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio announces lawsuit against five major oil companies. Source: NYC tells Big Oil it’s time to pay up for climate change – The Verge
Places that make you feel “in nature” are likely different than those that your parents or grandparents would have cited. Source: We’ve forgetten what “nature” really means — Quartzy
The ReTuna mall in Eskilstuna provides a shining example of how the buy-use-dispose model can be turned on its head. Source: This mall in Sweden sells only recycled stuff | MNN – Mother Nature Network
Do you turn the thermostat way down? Shop zero waste? Ride your bike in January? These quirky lifestyle habits can make you a better person. Source: TreeHugger
With Outdoorsy, owners list their personal rigs on the site’s marketplace, where potential renters can decide on the vehicle that most appeals. Read Source: Meet Outdoorsy: the Airbnb for RV Rentals | Travel + Leisure
A wild hallucinogen may lead to new painkillers and help change how synthetic chemists work, and, oddly enough, how they publish their science. Source: Salvia Leads Chemists on a Psychedelic Existential Journey | WIRED
Social media giants hire legions of contractors to hunt for pornography, racism and violence in a torrent of posts and videos. This is one of the fastest-growing jobs in the technology world—and perhaps the most grueling. Source: The Worst Job in Technology: Staring at Human Depravity to Keep It Off Facebook – WSJ
For about half the price of a cruise ship, “freighter travel” is an adventurous way to connect with the marine world and an excellent antidote to an over-managed world. Source: I crossed the Pacific on a cargo ship and got the digital detox I desperately needed — Quartzy
Our drive to work is not an intrinsic part of who we are. The best evidence for this comes from hunting and gathering societies who enjoyed levels of leisure time most of us could only dream of. Source: What hunter-gatherers understand about AI, automation, and our economic future — Quartz at Work
“Total work” is the process by which human beings are transformed into workers and nothing else. Source: If work dominated your every moment would life be worth living? — Quartz at Work
The Crappy Dinner Party is my new entertaining ideal Source: TreeHugger
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