Amazon's really serious about not making a profit; of course I'll pay less to have it delivered six days earlier.
How America Lost Its Mojo →
If Horace Greeley were alive today, his advice might be something more like, "Move back home, young man." Americans today are strangely averse to change. They are less likely to switch jobs, or move between states, or create new companies than they were 30 years ago. In economist-speak, "the U.S. labor market has experienced marked declines in fluidity along a variety of dimensions." In English: America has lost its mojo. Manifest Destiny has yielded to manifest dormancy.
A guy trained a machine to "watch" Blade Runner. Then things got seriously sci-fi. →
Warner had just DMCA'd an artificial reconstruction of a film about artificial intelligence being indistinguishable from humans, because it couldn't distinguish between the simulation and the real thing.
Longtime Couples Get In Sync, In Sickness And In Health →
We think of aging as something we do alone, the changes unfolding according to each person's own traits and experiences. But researchers are learning that as we age in relationships, we change biologically to become more like our partners than we were in the beginning.
The Bible teaches that husbands and wives metaphorically become one flesh, but science is discovering there is also literal oneness in aging and disease.
(via PBS NewsHour)
Really, Bloomberg? 'Cause your site makes 141 HTTP connections for 6.8 MB of data and Ghostery cuts down the time it takes to load from 19.2 to 15.6 seconds with DomContentLoaded dropping by 8.6 seconds in my totally unscientific, inaccurate web performance test. Maybe check with your experts before posting web performance tips. And lose some page weight while you're talking to those experts. I'm not whitelisting Wired, I'm not whitelisting Forbes, and I'm not whitelisting you.
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1500 posts. I'd like to thank the Academy, my 107 followers (especially the three of whom I know), the four people who read but have never told me, my mother, and Tumblr for enabling my Internet addiction.
Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
— Muhammad Ali
In the Future, We Will Photograph Everything and Look at Nothing →
In other words, "the term 'photographer' is changing," [...]. As a result, photos are less markers of memories than they are Web-browser bookmarks for our lives. And, just as with bookmarks, after a few months it become hard to find photos or even to navigate back to the points worth remembering.
Curing Our Slack Addiction →
The thing is, being connected doesn't magically enable effective communication.