February 14, 2016

This is the age of Big Data, where programmers can measure anything and everything, but don’t necessarily know what they’re measuring or what to do with it. Mozilla in one sentence.



Lungless and happy about it.



Hertz Is Pulling a Disney.



Douglas Rushkoff: ‘I’m thinking it may be good to be off social media altogether.’



70 years ago, six Philly women became the world’s first digital computer programmers.



February 13, 2016

Libraries.



The word “software” started as a joke.



Is that milk past its ‘sell by’ date? Drink it anyway. Sell-by dates are a tactic to get you to throw away food early.



Quasiprogressivity.



Your Life Will Be Better if You Give Up Your Phone. Aye. If it weren’t for work, I’d throw mine in the damn garbage.



The economy sucks. If you aren’t in the top 10 percent, it never recovered. Am in the top 10%, but have no desire to throw others under the bus — unlike my compatriots up here.



Subways should have open gangway cars. Why does the U.S resist it?



ISPs want “flexible” privacy rules that let them “innovate” with customer data.



A Fight Over Trans Kids Got a Researcher Fired. Seems those fighting the Nazis always eventually become their foes.



The single greatest risk factor for overexertion injuries in healthcare workers is the manual lifting, moving and repositioning of patients, residents or clients, i.e., manual patient handling. Increasingly untenable to claim that obesity harms no one else.



One of the great miseries plaguing much of the so-called Arab world, and the Muslim world more generally, is its sick relationship with women. Someone’s about to attract the sputtering liberal moron mob, all for speaking the truth.



Henry Kissinger is a war criminal, Hillary Clinton is a war Criminal.



More Unpredictable Stuff.



Is it time to rethink recycling?



February 12, 2016

A Shout Out to the Old Dogs: Better Learn Some New Tricks.



Stereotypes about Native Americans and alcohol debunked: Native Americans are more likely to abstain from alcohol than whites, and heavy drinking and binge drinking rates are about the same for both groups.



A Future History of the United States.



Gravitational waves have been found, scientists say. Gnarly.



The Eviction Epidemic.



snaffle.



Why I Play The Lottery.



The error these people make is in thinking that “success” in our plutocracy has much of anything to do with intelligence or even being successful.



Of the 16 candidates running for president, only one pays his interns: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), at $10.10 an hour.



February 11, 2016

Study: Stubborn Kids Are More Likely to Be Successful. *looks at self* Yup.



AT&T fights to keep your internet as slow as possible.



Cyanobacteria use micro-optics to sense light direction.



Gasoline keeps getting dirtier while alternatives keep getting cleaner.



The TPP If Ratified: Corporations Will Overturn U.S. Laws, Speed up Destruction of the Environment, Outsource Jobs.



Did Net Neutrality Kill Broadband Investment Like Comcast, AT&T, Verizon Said It Would?



US intelligence chief: we might use the internet of things to spy on you. No “might” about it.



An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Liberals Who Love Him.



Sea-level rise ‘could last twice as long as human history.’



What’s Killing Americans? Guns, Cars and Drugs.



Women Get Pull Requests Accepted More (Except When You Know They’re Women).



February 10, 2016

Brown As An Anti-Integration Weapon.



Fat City: What can stop obesity?



This Meat Company Dumps More Pollution Into Waterways Each Year Than ExxonMobil.



20 Years Ago Today: The Most Important Law On The Internet Was Signed, Almost By Accident.



A Single Concussion May Triple the Long-Term Risk of Suicide. Well, not so good news for me I guess.



From genes to latrines—Vikings and their worms provide clues to emphysema.



Horror films are far scarier than in the past. Here’s why.



Hillary Clinton won’t rule out Wall Street Treasury Secretary. She’s doing herself no favors, but at least she’s honest.



Why feed a cow magnets?



Why Do Young People Have Such Visceral Dislike for Hillary? Hillary C. seems like a used car salesman who’d sell you off to a banker if it helped her — that’s why.



February 9, 2016

America Is Flint.



UC Berkeley profs lambast new “black box” network monitoring hardware.



The Rich Are Already Using Robo-Advisers, and That Scares Banks.



How Winning Leads to Cheating.



These Gorgeous Buildings Showcase the Surprisingly Innovative Future of Wood.



Kids who played shoot-em-up games in the ‘90s were probably (mostly) OK.



Excellent (new) Lara Croft cosplay.



The political philosophy Hillary Clinton and her defenders embody has always been about the concrete protection of elite privilege — and empty promises for everyone else.



90% of what goes on at The New Yorker can be explained by Vulgar Marxism.



Michigan Gov Threw Wife Decadent Birthday Party with Tacky-Ass Cake While His State Is Poisoned.



Super Bowl ‘rocket’ mortgage ad brings jeers — and loan may not be so quick.



Russian Roulette.



Why Are Economists So Small-Minded?



​‘Assume You’re Being Monitored, Because You Probably Are’—the Future of Workplace Surveillance.



Will Germany Give Up on Integration?



Gradualism and the fight over Single Payer.



American productivity growth during the Great Depression.



Top Grossing Movies That Never Hit #1 at the Box Office. Not fucking inflation-adjusted. WTF.



Scientists have found a way to help you learn new skills twice as fast.



February 8, 2016

It’s Hip to Eat Mare.



Why a selloff in European banks is ominous.



The Rent-Seeking Is Too Damn High.



Hi, Baby-Making Factories!



NYPD uses obscure law to boot hundreds from their homes.



Fries made in beef tallow—or a mixed oil that includes animal fat of some kind—are unquestionably better.



The talk.



On a replacement for Twitter.



Here Is Today’s French Fiscal Horsepower History Lesson.



How Old Is PTSD?



February 7, 2016

Criticism of TS Eliot Prize Winner Sparks #Derangedpoetess Hashtag.



With its mirror complete, giant space telescope on track for 2018 launch.



Why the TPP is Terrible, Part the Millionth.



Fathers: maybe stop mentioning your daughters to earn credibility on women’s issues.



Apple’s latest operating system permanently disables the handset if it detects that a repair has been carried out by a non-Apple technician. Apple has always been fairly evil in this way.



Apples To Apples.



Vagabond Express.



February 6, 2016

AI Is Transforming Google Search. The Rest of the Web Is Next.



Widest Roman Prime.



‘We do not want girls watching this show.’



The attempt to impose codes of conduct on comedy reflects the idea that you can somehow apply a political and moral judgement to humour. Well, you can, but it’ll often be more harmful than helpful.



Seeing the Most Decadent Chocolate Cake Get Made Is Just Unfair.



Just because I empathize with Hillary Clinton (or Megyn Kelly, or Sarah Palin) as a target of sexism doesn’t mean I have to support her garbage politics.



The problem with BPA-free: Alternatives are just as troubling.



Researchers Uncover the Genetic Roots Behind Rare Vibration Allergy.



FGM: number of victims found to be 70 million higher than thought.



Hillary, the Banksters Committed ‘Fraud,’ Not ‘Shenanigans.’ I wouldn’t vote for Bernie, but I sure as hell wouldn’t vote for Hillary either.



This beautiful edition of Byron’s The Prisoner of Chillon was published in 1865 and illuminated by William and George Audsley.



February 5, 2016

Law360 enforced a noncompete agreement against a journalist. Just another tactic to lower wages and create climate of fear.



Americans Are Living Longer, Thanks to the Clean Air Act.



Finnish President: Migrants pose challenge to western values.



Mystery of deep-sea ‘purple sock’ solved.