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Last September, in the depths of high summer, my wife and I wanted to see the Midwest again. We began in Brooklyn and drove across the Verrazano, a bridge so long and well-engineered that its… Source: Driving the Midwest | TechCrunch
The reasons for Trump’s win are obvious, if you know where to look. Source: What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class
Light pollution prevents a third of humanity from seeing the night sky. LED lighting is about to make the problem worse. Source: Light Pollution Atlas Shows Why 80 Percent of North Americans Can’t See the Milky Way
Corporate executives haven’t always believed that transactions must have winners and losers. But that’s not Donald J. Trump’s view. Source: How Sociopathic Capitalism Came to Rule the World – The Atlantic
How the Sony a7S inspired and filmed the Shark Week show, Air Jaws: Night Stalker Source: Sony a7S Sees In The Dark For Shark Week | Sony | Alpha Universe
Source: Fecal Transplants May Be a Miracle Cure for Some of Our Nastiest Illnesses | WIRED
Follow these guidelines and we guarantee you can fit everything you need in a single bag. Source: 5 Simple Rules of Thumb for Packing Light | Mental Floss
Algorithms are teasing apart the link between food and health to provide the first evidence that we really are what we eat. Source: How Data Mining Reveals the World’s Healthiest Cuisines
Freelancers are increasing as a percentage of U.S. workers. Technology enables them to work from rural areas, a trend not lost on millennials. Source: U.S. Freelancers Increasing in Rural Areas | Digital Trends
Every once in a while someone in Silicon Valley brings up the possibility of living forever, or at least a really long time, but first we’re going to need to figure out a way to enjoy all those… Source: Jeff Bezos, Mayo Clinic back anti-aging startup Unity Biotechnology for $116 million | TechCrunch
The first whole human genome sequencing cost a whopping $2.7 billion. That didn’t bode well for making any breakthroughs on genetic disorders. Luckily, the cost has dropped dramatically since… Source: Genetics startup Genos wants to pay you for your DNA data | TechCrunch
The ability to work from anywhere has allowed wanderlust-hungry individuals the chance to live as digital nomads. If you’re one of them, its seems like the entire world is your office, with the flexibility to spend a few days or weeks in one locale before moving onto another adventure. Nissan has created their own version…
These ubiquitous reactive nanoparticles could be harmful to brain development, and even have an association with Alzheimer’s Disease. Source: Alarming levels of industrial pollution particles found in brains of city dwellers – ExtremeTech
Last night’s Apple event was bizarre — I had been anticipating this show for a while, mostly looking forward to being able to stop telling… Source: Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for – Charged Tech – Medium
A jump in the fluency of Google’s language software will help efforts to make chatbots less lame. Source: Google’s New Service Translates Languages Almost as Well as Humans Can
In his recent monograph, On the Existence of Digital Objects , Yuk Hui adeptly blends his technical training and philosophical knowledge to address a fundamental question: what is the relationship between technological and humanistic concerns? Source: Public Books — Being Data
Relentless upgrades and hypnotic marketing have tricked us into churning gadgets as quickly as possible, but the unseen costs of this cycle should have thoughtful buyers shoving a stick in the spokes. Source: The best smartphone is the one you already own | Digital Trends
Accepting climate change alone will not reverse its effects; we also have to adopt less perverse economic values. Source: Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky
Companies are artificially shortening the useful lifespan of products to drive consumption. What does this mean for the environment and climate? Source: Why Your Stuff Turns to Junk and Cooks the Planet
Trump’s approach was an important part of his strength in the primaries. But will it work when he faces Clinton onstage? Source: Who Will Win the Presidential Debates Between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton? – The Atlantic
The first animal-free dairy milk gets a re-brand and the dairy industry braces itself for a new type of competition. Source: A “Perfect Day” to Disrupt Dairy – The Good Food Institute
Eventually the Earth will become uninhabitable and the human race will die off, forever — unless we make some big changes. Source: How A Fundamental Change In The Way We Live Could Save The Human Race
The long-standing mystery as to why human beings evolved with such disproportionally large brains is now being explained in terms of office politics. As bo Source: Office politics began two million years ago | The New Daily
The number of people we can have meaningful contact with is limited by the size of our brains. Now this group seems to be subdivided into layers, say anthropologists. Source: Your Brain Limits You to Just Five BFFs
The new research, led by Prof. Morten Christiansen of Cornell University, demonstrates a robust statistical relationship between certain basic concepts – from body parts to familial relationships and aspects of the natural world – and the sounds humans around the world use to describe them.“These sound symbolic patterns show up again and again across the…
By Vivian Hemmelder and Tommy Blanchard, Harvard UniversityThis post was originally published on Source: Why Humans Are Hard-Wired For Curiosity | Huffington Post
The ideal of ‘organization-as-machine,’ which was dominant throughout the 20th century, is now giving way to an ideal of ‘organization-as-living-system.’ Source: The Organization is a Purposeful Living System
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