Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives. — Read on www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-deal-with-people-who-talk-too-much/
Sam Harris describes the properties of consciousness and how mindfulness practices of all stripes can be used to transcend one's ego. — Read on bigthink.com/videos/sam-harris-on-self-transendence
Like everything else these days, even facts are debatable. — Read on www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fact-checking-has-flourished-but-its-more-complicated-than-it-looks/2019/01/10/42c52f18-1510-11e9-90a8-136fa44b80ba_story.html
Museums, colleges and the art market are beginning to see amateur photographs as both collectibles and cultural artifacts. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/arts/design/vernacular-photography.html
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Machine-made images and videos offer novel ways to spread fake content online, according to AI experts and neuroscientists — Read on www.wired.co.uk/article/artificial-intelligence-threat-creative-machines-fake-news
A few years ago a student walked into the office of Cesar A. Hidalgo, director of the Collective Learning group at the MIT Media Lab.… — Read on m.nautil.us/issue/68/context/how-well-forget-john-lennon
Thanks in part to recent revelations about how the company gave access to user data and private messages to Netflix, Spotify, and others, as well as the dirty tricks campaign to smear Facebook critic… — Read on medium.com/s/douglas-rushkoff/the-real-value-of-facebook-19d1d6cb3003
Wikipedia is a valuable resource. But it’s not always obvious how to collate the content on any given topic into a coherent whole. — Read on www.technologyreview.com/s/612726/this-algorithm-browses-wikipedia-to-auto-generate-textbooks/
Wikipedia is a valuable resource. But it’s not always obvious how to collate the content on any given topic into a coherent whole. — Read on www.technologyreview.com/s/612726/this-algorithm-browses-wikipedia-to-auto-generate-textbooks/
Rising suicide rates and depression in U.S. teens and young adults have prompted researchers to ask a provocative question: Could the same devices that some people blame for contributing to tech-age angst also be used to detect it? — Read on www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/2019-01-03/detecting-depression-phone-apps-could-monitor-teen-angst
With each new device, we open up a legal conversation about privacy standards. Google Glass was a rare example of people pushing back. — Read on www.wired.com/story/google-glass-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy/