Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. |
| | | | | Elton John in "Tommy" (1975) (Columbia Pictures) | | | | | | | “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
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| Self-driving cars, war outsourced to robots, surgery by autonomous machines -- this is only the beginning. | | |
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| A year ago, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler saved the internet. In this exclusive interview, he tells us what’s next. | | |
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| Eric spoke again with ReDEF's Jason Hirschhorn about what Viacom and MTV used to be when he worked there in the early 2000s vs. what it has become today under Philippe Dauman. We discuss the Tom Freston days, what Shari Redstone has and might do, and how to turnaround the once great company. | | |
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| The Times Literary Supplement |
| Old school ties, Cambridge Apostles and the man who taught the young Eric Blair at Eton. | | |
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| Sibling rivalry? We talk about it all the time, but what we're really concerned with is the incessant squabbling that can turn a happy home into what feels like a battleground. That's not rivalry-it's conflict. After repeatedly separating our kids and reminding them for the thousandth time that they should try to be a little nicer to one another, many of us begin to think we will never put an end to the fighting. But reducing the number and intensity of these conflicts is possible-if we strike the right bargain. | | |
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| A typical high school football player takes roughly 650 hits to the head per season. | | |
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| 60 Minutes cameras go inside the busiest death row in America where Bill Whitaker talks to condemned men who have been given execution dates | | |
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| The drug naloxone saves lives during overdoses—so why is it so difficult and confusing to administer? Enter Frog. | | |
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| This week doesn't mark just the launch of Ubisoft's latest new franchise with the release of "Tom Clancy's The Division," the leadership at Ubisoft tell us. It's also the dividing line between the Ubisoft of old and what the future holds for the game publisher responsible for "Far Cry," "Assassin's Creed," "The Crew" and "Watch Dogs." | | |
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| Look out the window of Superintendent Greg Alexander's office in Garden Valley, Idaho, and you'll see the football field - where, if you wait patiently, you'll also see one of the herds of elk that fill the valley, their winter antlers blurring with the mountains behind. | | |
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| Data, data, everywhere, and not enough space to display it. At least, that's the superficial concern that comes to mind when I think of the beautiful, expansive, and interactive experiences we've come to know on desktop (the Snow Falls of the world) and how they translate onto my phone. | | |
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| Apple has shown an interest in liberating the Watch from the iPhone. Will it go so far as to add an LTE radio to do that? | | |
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| When cookie giant Oreo wanted to promote its latest flavors, its marketing heads decided to spice up its traditional TV ads with something not just new, but otherworldly: A virtual-reality-style fly-through of a whimsical, violet-skied fantasyland, where cream filling flows like a river and cookie pieces rocket past the viewer's head. | | |
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| The series tells the story of runaway slaves with honesty -- and shades of "Ocean's Eleven." | | |
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| What does the rise of the surprise album release mean for careful, considered music writing? | | |
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| A handful of tech-powered personal shopping apps are trying to make yet another white-glove service more scalable. | | |
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| This week, Amazon revealed the location of its second brick-and-mortar bookstore, which will open in a few months in Southern California, at a mall near the University of California, San Diego. The online retailer seems to have big ambitions for its physical stores. | | |
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| This year's presidential candidates have spent a lot of time talking about health-care affordability, but not much time discussing how to curb health-care spending. | | |
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| The emergence of Netflix, Amazon and outside financiers in the auction process has transformed films and even books into an absolute sellers market. | | |
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| Columbia Journalism Review |
| The Real Life Rock Top Ten, written by noted music critic Greil Marcus, just marked its 30th birthday by moving to Pitchfork, the once hipster, now Conde Nast-owned online music magazine. Real Life, released more or less monthly, does mostly what its name implies: itemizes and pithily critiques 10 cultural artifacts of note-which to Marcus can mean anything from an album reissue to a rubber toy. | | |
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