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  • Why Governor Jerry Brown Was Booed at the Bonn Climate Summit | The New Yorker

    www.newyorker.com
    Nov 15, 2017
    Bill McKibben discusses the California governor Jerry Brown’s recent speech at the COP23 climate summit, in Bonn, Germany, and the failure of many government leaders around the world to consider the p...
  • Instagram is loving nature to death | The Outline

    theoutline.com
    Nov 14, 2017
    Lesser-known lookouts are suffering under the weight of sudden online fame.
  • Software 2.0 – Andrej Karpathy – Medium

    medium.com
    Nov 13, 2017
    I sometimes see people refer to neural networks as just “another tool in your machine learning toolbox”. They have some pros and cons, they work here or there, and sometimes you can use them to win…
  • We’re Going Through Hell, and Men Need to Join Us There

    longreads.com
    Nov 10, 2017
    The momentum is happening and it’s exhausting for women.
  • How Facebook’s Oracular Algorithm Determines the Fates of Start-Ups - The New York Times

    www.nytimes.com
    Nov 10, 2017
    The platform is so good at “microtargeting” that many small e-commerce companies barely even bother advertising anywhere else.
  • My travels in white America – a land of anxiety, division and pockets of pain | US news | The Guardian

    www.theguardian.com
    Nov 9, 2017
    This summer, Gary Younge took a trip from Maine to Mississippi to ​​find out what has brought the US to this point. From the forgotten poor to desperate addicts, their whiteness is all some of them ha...
  • The Outside Interview Ep. 11: Doc Parsley Solves Your Sleep Crisis — Outside Podcast — Overcast

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    Nov 6, 2017
    If you want to understand sleep deprivation, you want to talk to a Navy SEAL, who go nearly a week without rest during training. And there’s probably no better Navy SEAL to talk to than Dr. Kirk Parsl...
  • We’re All Mad Here: Weinstein, Women, and the Language of Lunacy

    longreads.com
    Nov 6, 2017
    “He has demons.” The language of madness is the last resort for a society that can no longer deny the evidence of structural oppression and violence.
  • The reminiscence bump: why America’s greatest year was probably when you were young | Science | The Guardian

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    Nov 3, 2017
    We tend to recall more memories from our youth than other times in our life. And recent work suggests that this reminiscence bump might help to explain one of Trump’s much-loved slogans
  • Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight, explained with 60+ studies - Vox

    www.vox.com
    Nov 2, 2017
    Physical activity may have less to do with weight loss than we think.
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Hello! This is mostly a collection of things I've read, but occasionally I write my own posts.