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Thought Leader (2016) [video]

Posted by howsilly on Thursday February 27, 2025 @03:00PM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZBKX-6Gz6A

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The Camorra Never Sleeps (2012)

Posted by howsilly on Thursday April 11, 2024 @12:57PM
from the vanityfair.com dept.

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/05/naples-mob-paolo-di-lauro-italy

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Pronouns

Posted by howsilly on Monday April 24, 2023 @01:24PM
from the vectors.substack.com dept.

https://vectors.substack.com/p/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of

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The physics principle of diffusion inspired modern AI art

Posted by howsilly on Thursday January 05, 2023 @03:40PM
from the quantamagazine.org dept.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-physics-principle-that-inspired-modern-ai-art-20230105/

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I often have to cut into the brain (2012)

Posted by howsilly on Friday September 02, 2022 @06:03PM
from the granta.com dept.

https://granta.com/new-voices-henry-marsh/

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Make megaprojects more modular

Posted by howsilly on Thursday February 17, 2022 @03:25PM
from the hbr.org dept.

https://hbr.org/2021/11/make-megaprojects-more-modular?ab=seriesnav-spotlight

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Rise of the war machines: Charting the evolution of military technologies

Posted by howsilly on Friday October 29, 2021 @04:41PM
from the journals.plos.org dept.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0258161

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Dinomania (1993)

Posted by howsilly on Saturday June 12, 2021 @01:49AM
from the nybooks.com dept.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1993/08/12/dinomania/

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Stop defacing quotes with brackets

Posted by howsilly on Monday February 08, 2021 @02:12AM
from the slate.com dept.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/02/stop-defacing-quotes-with-brackets.html

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Briefing note: US Deputy Secretary Of State meeting with Andrei Gromyko (1985)

Posted by howsilly on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:27AM
from the history.state.gov dept.

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1981-88v05/d16

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A Better Crystal Ball?

Posted by howsilly on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @06:30PM
from the foreignaffairs.com dept.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-10-13/better-crystal-ball?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=press_release&utm_campaign=&utm_content=20201013&utm_term=PressCFR%2C%20Members%2C%20and%20Staff

( Read More... | 45 comments | 17 points | on HN )

Sounds of Silence: When writer’s block strikes

Posted by howsilly on Friday March 20, 2020 @05:45PM
from the thesmartset.com dept.

https://www.thesmartset.com/sounds-of-silence/

( Read More... | 2 comments | 21 points | on HN )

Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metamorphosis

Posted by howsilly on Monday December 16, 2019 @02:22PM
from the nautil.us dept.

http://nautil.us/blog/memories-can-be-injected-and-survive-amputation-and-metamorphosis

( Read More... | 44 comments | 128 points | on HN )

Where Have All the Fragments Gone?

Posted by howsilly on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:53PM
from the laphamsquarterly.org dept.

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/where-have-all-fragments-gone/

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Cambridge gallery lends art to students 'with none damaged' in 60 years

Posted by howsilly on Thursday October 17, 2019 @12:57PM
from the bbc.com dept.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-49897431

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Mistakes Are Embarrassing the Publishing Industry

Posted by howsilly on Monday September 23, 2019 @07:09PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/business/publishing-books-errors.html

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The sense and essence of smell

Posted by howsilly on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @06:06PM
from the blog.oup.com dept.

https://blog.oup.com/2019/08/the-sense-and-essence-of-smell/

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George Wilson, The Man Who Walked His Life Away

Posted by howsilly on Sunday July 14, 2019 @06:32PM
from the deadspin.com dept.

https://deadspin.com/the-man-who-walked-his-life-away-1835620495

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Persuade or Be Persuaded

Posted by howsilly on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @01:52AM
from the thepointmag.com dept.

https://thepointmag.com/2019/politics/persuade-or-be-persuaded-agnes-callard

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No posthumous privacy: the middle years of T. S. Eliot

Posted by howsilly on Monday May 13, 2019 @01:05AM
from the the-tls.co.uk dept.

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/review-ts-eliot-letters-volume-8/

( Read More... | 1 comment | 8 points | on HN )

The Unknowable Artist: Stéphane Mandelbaum

Posted by howsilly on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @05:43PM
from the theparisreview.org dept.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/04/22/the-unknowable-artist-stephane-mandelbaum/

( Read More... | 3 comments | 25 points | on HN )

A brief history of why artists are no longer making a living making music

Posted by howsilly on Thursday March 21, 2019 @01:38PM
from the rootsmusic.ca dept.

https://www.rootsmusic.ca/2019/03/14/a-brief-history-of-why-artists-are-no-longer-making-a-living-making-music/

( Read More... | 238 comments | 202 points | on HN )

Auden Hated His Most Famous Political Poems

Posted by howsilly on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @02:30PM
from the thedailybeast.com dept.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-wh-auden-hated-his-most-famous-political-poems

( Read More... | 2 comments | 20 points | on HN )

Silicon Valley is evolving and focusing on employees

Posted by howsilly on Friday January 11, 2019 @02:47PM
from the nationalgeographic.com dept.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/02/silicon-valley-evolving-focusing-employees/

( Read More... | 75 comments | 92 points | on HN )

What’s behind a recent rise in books coverage?

Posted by howsilly on Saturday December 08, 2018 @03:02PM
from the cjr.org dept.

https://www.cjr.org/criticism/books-coverage-growing.php

( Read More... | no comments | 9 points | on HN )

How a Booming City Can Be More Equitable

Posted by howsilly on Saturday October 20, 2018 @02:45PM
from the citylab.com dept.

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/10/searching-soul-community/572986/

( Read More... | no comments | 15 points | on HN )

Rome: Eternal City by Ferdinand Addis review – myth, mess and magic

Posted by howsilly on Friday September 28, 2018 @03:21PM
from the theguardian.com dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/26/rome-eternal-city-ferdinand-addis-review

( Read More... | 3 comments | 14 points | on HN )

Just Read the Book Already

Posted by howsilly on Monday August 20, 2018 @04:55PM
from the slate.com dept.

https://slate.com/culture/2018/08/reader-come-home-by-maryanne-wolf-reviewed.html

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The impossibility—and the necessity—of distinguishing science from nonscience

Posted by howsilly on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @03:24PM
from the weeklystandard.com dept.

https://www.weeklystandard.com/daniel-sarewitz/all-ye-need-to-know

( Read More... | 83 comments | 80 points | on HN )