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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
How much of your digital life would you lose if you lost a single password? Without it, you are locked out and the cold reality of using free cloud services like Google is that you don’t have a… Source: That time I got locked out of my Google account for a month | TechCrunch
An MIT project simulates your city following a disaster in an attempt to digitally augment our empathy levels. Can it really work? Source: MIT’s Empathy-Boosting A.I. Shows How Your City Might Look After A Disaster | Digital Trends
How a group of programming rebels started a global movement Source: Agile Software Development: A History – The Atlantic
Archivists are working to document our chaotic, opaque, algorithmically complex world—and in many cases, they simply can’t. Source: Future Historians Probably Won’t Understand Our Internet – The Atlantic
So there’s no sense arguing against education technology. Source: How to Teach a Cyborg – The Atlantic
Pessimists fare better than people with a sunnier disposition. Source: The Power of Negative Thinking – The Atlantic
We are beset by—and immersed in—apps and devices that are quietly reducing the amount of meaningful interaction we have with each other. Source: Eliminating the Human – MIT Technology Review
Voice interfaces, chatbots, and other systems are discriminating against certain minority dialects. Source: AI Programs Are Learning to Exclude Some African-American Voices – MIT Technology Review
The Iranian couple that stole my account opened a window to my homeland. Source: My Instagram Hacker Changed My Life | WIRED
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