Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. | | | | Cassell's Hamburgers. One of LA's finest. The great burger quest tour continues...
(Cassell's) | | | | |  | “Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
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| | rantnrave:// REDEF makes your mind move. Read, watch and listen to the stories, people and ideas that matter. We DJ the internet and deliver daily mixes of fresh ideas. We search each day to find different angles and points of view that lead to deeper understanding. Industry insights, great stories, big thinking, and pop culture. Stay competitive. Challenge what you think you know and are interested in. Learn something new each day. When I was a child, my mother told me to always ask "why?" when I didn't understand something. It was a directive she slightly regretted towards the end of her life. Early on, she took me to museums and films. We read newspapers and discussed articles, watched the same tv shows and debated afterward, sparking in me an endless curiosity that was only satiated by the emergence of the internet - a place I could search and browse endlessly, learn at my own pace and enter into discussions about ideas. These moments with my mother, and others like them, inspired me to create REDEF. We create interest remixes for curious minds. An interest remix is a curated information stream with a specific industry focus wrapped with pop culture nuggets. We're not too interested in the fact that something happened, but we're super interested in what it means, how it affects us, and different perspectives on the topic. This is not a daily news site or newsletter, nor is it an algorithmic discovery engine. We hand-pick everything you see on REDEF. We utilize technology to hunt and gather, but our editorial decisions are our own. The internet is infinite, full of more mind-expanding content than one could ever hope to absorb; we're here to help narrow it down. Follow our mixes in media, music and coming back soon: fashion, sports, and tech. My friend and IAC and EXPEDIA chairman BARRY DILLER once said: "We're in a world now where it's not enough to be smart. You have to be curious." REDEF is about curiosity. Helping you be more informed so you can take ideas with you. Apply them at work. Share them with your friends and colleagues. Have lively, useful, and positive discussions about them. It's not enough to be smart, you have to be curious. Enjoy and subscribe here. Learn more about REDEF and me... Happy Birthday to GERALDINE LAYBOURNE, DOUGLAS KANNER, JONATHAN KATZMAN, ADAM DORSKY, ALEX ZHARDANOVSKY, JAMIE ROBERTS, and ANDI POCH. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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| CNN's SE Cupp says a tweet from Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) stating that President Trump's actions and behavior "meet the threshold for impeachment" is significant. | | |
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| What's exciting about OTT video isn't the way it's delivered, but how it will change content itself. | | |
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 | CityLab |
| The architect, who died yesterday at the age of 102, designed iconic modern buildings on prominent sites around the world. Here are some that delight and confound CityLab. | | |
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 | Undark |
| How an African-American psychiatrist helped design a groundbreaking television show as a radical therapeutic tool for helping minority preschoolers. | | |
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 | Grub Street |
| A pair of obsessive eaters track down the source of every single morsel they put in their mouths, without losing their appetite. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| Conspiracy theories, racist outbursts, and a whole lot of Putin love. Working for the far-right One America News Network was a deeply weird experience, former employees say. | | |
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 | Vox |
| On the latest episode of Recode Media, former Amazon and Hulu employee Eugene Wei explains why Netflix and its competitors aren’t playing the same game. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Mined Minds came into West Virginia espousing a certain dogma, fostered in the world of start-ups and TED Talks. Students found an erratic operation. | | |
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 | VICE |
| We spoke to writer Mike Jay about the drug's journey from prehistoric caves, through Aztecs, Mormons, Beat poets, John-Paul Sartre, and a British MP. | | |
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 | Culture Digitally |
| This is an essay about technology, power relations and basic dignity. It is about the commercialization of online platforms and the difficulties of retaining individual power and autonomy online. It is about the gentrification of the internet. When I call the internet gentrified, I’m describing shifts in power and control that limit what we can do online. | | |
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 | Penny Fractions |
| Rather quickly, Amazon’s music streaming platform went from a limited Prime supplement into potentially one of the most diverse music streaming platforms (in terms of price and ability to sell other products). | | |
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 | Atlanta Magazine |
| After multiple rare cancers have been diagnosed in Waycross, Georgia, the city grapples with a profound question: What if the industries that gave us life are killing us? | | |
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 | Hollywood Reporter |
| Jason Bateman and Ron Howard weigh in on the "disgraceful" legislation, but almost all of the filmmakers and production companies behind the more than 50 films and TV shows shooting in the Peach State have remained quiet on the controversial legislation. | | |
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 | BuzzFeed News |
| Twitter’s leadership knows that it’s fundamentally broken, and its latest attempt to fix itself shows how daunting of a task that will be. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| Boom by Michael Shnayerson traces the history of an art market out of control. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| As the Jive Records album turns 20, here is the track-by-track story of Millennium in the words of those who helped the Backstreet Boys create the “magic.” | | |
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 | Topic |
| The techniques that have been used to pressure American women to keep breeding are even more shocking than you might think. | | |
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 | Gizmodo |
| In January 2019, when China Central Television, the largest broadcast network in the most populous nation in the world, aired a special to celebrate the Lunar New Year, the hosts welcomed four life-sized "personal artificial intelligences" to share the stage with them. | | |
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 | Variety |
| Donald Glover was blown away. "This is the coolest thing I have ever done," he could be heard muttering into a hot mic after he had put the Millennium Falcon into hyperdrive for the first time on the set of "Solo: A Star Wars Story." | | |
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 | NPR |
| "Landmark" study finds a highly processed diet spurred people to overeat compared with an unprocessed diet, about 500 extra calories a day. That suggests something about processing itself is at play. | | |
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 | BBC News |
| In the first of BBC Culture’s new series on fiction that predicted the future, Hephzibah Anderson looks at the work of John Brunner, whose vision of 2010 was eerily accurate. | | |
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