Human nature and ego ask us to change course when things don’t appear to be working. The process, however, requires us to keep going. | | | | Jason Bateman's follows the money and chases a perverse and costly American dream in "Ozark." Highly recommended.
(Netflix) | | | | |  | “Human nature and ego ask us to change course when things don’t appear to be working. The process, however, requires us to keep going.”
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| | rantnrave:// REDEF SETS are finite playlists of content based on specific topic, people or events. They rock. They make you smarter and we've got a bunch for late Sunday reading... Video games like MADDEN, FIFA and NBA 2K haven't just sold millions of copies, they've taught their sports to a new era of fans and bred the next generation of stars. They've changed how fans consume sports from bar to arcade to living room. SportsSET: "Nearly Real Sports: The Video Games That Changed Sports"... The environment is becoming an urgent issue for the apparel industry as long term projections show shrinking resources and increased customer demand. Just how far has fashion moved on environmental issues? FashionSET: "Greenwashing? Fashion's Environmental Issues"... ALEX RODRIGUEZ was a wunderkind, a cheater, a no-doubt Hall of Famer, an MLB pariah. But baseball's most controversial star has found a way to redefine himself again and again. His latest makeover: a budding TV career. SportsSET: "A-Rod's Second (Second) Act"... They write and produce the songs that make the whole world sing. Some of 'em, you know. Some of 'em would prefer you don't. Either way, the pop charts literally start here. MusicSET: "Captains of Hooks: The Creators Behind Pop's Creators"... Happy Birthday to BRUCE GILLMER, GREG COLEMAN, MICHAEL FOX, BRENT SUDDUTH, THOM KOZIK, FRITZ LANMAN, ANDREW SIEGEL, and MARK GRAHAM. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | The Atlantic |
| More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The agonies of being overweight -- or running a diet company -- in a culture that likes to pretend it only cares about health, not size. | | |
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 | The California Sunday Magazine |
| Counterfeiting is a $400 billion industry in China. | | |
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 | Scientific American |
| Students across the U.S. are in jeopardy, but smart policies can help schools. | | |
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 | Vox |
| A review of 80-plus studies upends the conventional wisdom. | | |
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 | Newsweek |
| Donald Trump promised "forgotten Americans" he'd be their tireless advocate in the White House. That hasn't quite panned out thus far. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| How do you make $81 million stolen from the Bangladesh central bank disappear? Run it through an Asian laundromat | | |
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 | Business Insider |
| We talked to engineers in Silicon Valley's "rest and vest" world, who explained how they got these gigs and how they spend their days. | | |
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 | Variety |
| Even for a journalist like Wesley Lowery, who's chronicled the real-life killings and raw trauma that police shootings across America have left in their wake, the unyielding depiction in Kathryn Bigelow's new film " Detroit " of the terror inflicted by three white officers on victims at the Algiers Motel in 1967 was deeply unsettling. | | |
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 | MIT Technology Review |
| Middle Eastern startups are overcoming cultural and other barriers to tap into a growing local taste for technology, from Bitcoin wallets to digital publishing. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| Newly released documents from long-secret Kennedy assassination files raise startling questions about what top agency officials knew and when they knew it. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Tech firms have developed AI that can learn how to write music. So will machines soon be composing symphonies, hit singles and bespoke soundtracks? | | |
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 | Mental Floss |
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 | ESPN |
| In a fading town in rural Texas, one girl took the field in the struggle to keep a high school football tradition alive. | | |
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 | The Calvert Journal |
| Were classics like "Mrs. Doubtfire" and "Back to the Future" based on Soviet ideas? | | |
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 | Columbia Journalism Review |
| "It was pretty daunting to occupy a seat on a show that was such an institution, and had such a rich history, and was really a part of people’s daily routine. It was a very big stage and a lot of pressure. But I remember sort of feeling like, I’m just going to be who I am and let the chips fall where they may." | | |
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 | Smithsonian Magazine |
| Why some researchers are proposing a drastic measure to save a threatened ecosystem. | | |
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 | Gizmodo |
| A software engineer's 10-page screed against Google's diversity initiatives is going viral inside the company, being shared on an internal meme network and Google+. The document's existence was first reported by Motherboard, and Gizmodo has obtained it in full. | | |
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 | Mashable |
| Buying shoes used to be as easy as going to the store. Now, it involves a smartphone, GPS, augmented reality, and a little bit of grit. | | |
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 | Medium |
| Over a year ago I said Google would never implement a fact based assessment in their algorithm because I thought they would understand that making such a change would be the first step to losing their search monopoly. I was wrong. | | |
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 | BBC Future |
| “MDZhB” has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows why. | | |
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 | Vice |
| People in relationships have no idea how we've harnessed the feature as a tool for sexual gameplay and sexting and now we can never go back. | | |
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 | YouTube |
| | | | Prince and The Revolution |
| | One of my favorite live performances ever. |
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