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New Light Sculpture By Design Bridge And Gali May Lucas Highlights Our Obsession With Staring At Screen
Kunst in Amsterdam:
35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here is what he wrote
Geweldig interessante herpublicatie van zijn ideeën.
Hot Trump. Cool @aoc.
Jeff Jarvis: Trump and his allies don’t know how to tweet but Ocasio-Cortez does — and that’s what so disturbs and confounds the GOP about @aoc. They think it should be so simple: just tweet your press releases — your “social media statements,” as their leader recently said — plus your best lines from speeches that get the loudest, hottest applause […]
Mitt Romney: The president shapes the public character of the nation. Trump’s character falls short.
De oud-presidentskandidaat en recent senator in The Washington Post: A president should demonstrate the essential qualities of honesty and integrity, and elevate the national discourse with comity and mutual respect. As a nation, we have been blessed with presidents who have called on the greatness of the American spirit. With the nation so divided, resentful […]
How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation
Anne Helen Petersen op BuzzFeed: This is why the fundamental criticism of millennials — that we’re lazy and entitled — is so frustrating: We hustle so hard that we’ve figured out how to avoid wasting time eating meals and are called entitled for asking for fair compensation and benefits (…) We’re called whiny for talking […]
Mac-tip: ToothFairy
Geniale kleine tool om automatisch te verbinden met een Bluetooth hoofdtelefoon of ander toestel in de menubalk van je Mac, voor maar 3 dollar (of inbegrepen bij een SetApp-abonnement): AirPods are great, but they don’t work quite as smoothly with Macs as they do iPhones. You can’t tell at a glance whether audio will play […]
The Spiderman Paradox
Seth Godin: In a democracy, we each have more power to speak up and to connect than we imagine. But most people don’t publish their best work or seek to organize people who care. Most of the time, it’s far easier to avert our eyes or blame the system or the tech or the dominant […]
The First Known Photograph of People Sharing a Beer (1843)
Zalig: The three men are said to be drinking Edinburgh Ale, “according to a contemporary account… ‘a potent fluid, which almost glued the lips of the drinker together.’
Beer-brewing Trappist monks put faith in plants to reduce water waste
The Guardian over de paters van La Trappe: In a large greenhouse, 70 species, including ferns and other sub-tropical plants, sit above bins of waste water that flows through pipes from the brewery. The interaction of the micro-organisms on the plants’ roots and the bacteria in the water purifies it for reuse. “We are praying […]