Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.' | | | | Eva Marie Saint, James Garner and Rod Taylor in 36 Hours (1964). Is WW II over or not? The film is worth watching with a lens towards fake news and propaganda.
(Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) | | | | |  | “Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'”
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 | Pacific Standard |
| Culture profoundly shapes our ideas about mental illness, which is something psychologist Nev Jones knows all too well. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Food, sex, money, work, family, friends, health, politics: there’s nothing we can’t feel guilty about, including our own feelings of guilt. | | |
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 | Commonweal Magazine |
| Jeff Guinn’s new biography-cum-history is a study of persuasion and power in Peoples Temple, the twentieth-century socialist cult led by preacher Jim Jones. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| It’s time for us to take seriously the prospect of what a world run by Silicon Valley might look like. | | |
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 | Stratechery |
| Fifteen years on, this paragraph from a Bill Gates' memo is a bit cringe-inducing: The events of last year -- from September's terrorist attacks to a number of malicious and highly publicized computer viruses -- reminded every one of us how important it is to ensure the integrity and security of our critical infrastructure, whether it's the airlines or computer systems. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| Sean Spicer, meet Ron Ziegler. | | |
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 | MIT Technology Review |
| An audacious Chinese entrepreneur wants to test your body for everything. But are computers really smart enough to make sense of all that data? | | |
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 | Fandor |
| Female cinematographers don't get as much recognition as their male counterparts, but they're responsible for many outstanding films with beautiful images. A video essay by Jake Swinney. | | |
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 | The Atlantic |
| The world’s most powerful information gatekeepers neglected their duties in Las Vegas. Again. | | |
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 | Green Bay Press-Gazette |
| Sixty years ago, they were no longer America’s darling. On their deathbed, the Packers were barely the pride of Green Bay. | | |
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 | Advertising Week |
| How new platforms are growing the sports business and tech industry. | | |
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 | Dissent Magazine |
| Why the titans of Silicon Valley-long tied to the Democrats-have been warming up to Trumpism. | | |
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 | Wired |
| Hyper-intelligent algorithms are not going to take over the world for these five reasons. | | |
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 | Eater |
| The Loaded Potato Skins come eight to an order, crispy at the edges, oozing with cheddar, and studded with glistening little nubs of bacon. They are a symphony of starch, fat, and salt, just as I remember them - eight little time capsules from an era of my life before I thought about words like "heirloom," "artisanal," or "house-cured." | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| With 300 million daily users and every major media company as a partner, Giphy’s got a feeling it can shake up the internet advertising business. | | |
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 | The Outline |
| Let me just rip this band-aid off. | | |
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 | Narratively |
| As Russian and American oil companies stream into a new energy hotspot, most residents of rural Uganda are left with only broken promises and degraded land. | | |
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 | Medium |
| Conferences have the opportunity to improve on reality’s mistakes. Unfortunately, the data shows otherwise. | | |
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 | The Cut |
| Warm collections by McQueen and McCartney, along with some stellar exhibits, remind us that it’s not just technology that draws people to fashion. | | |
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 | Poynter |
| Good morning. Here's our morning roundup of all the media news you need to know. Want to get this briefing in your inbox every morning? | | |
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 | Hot Pod |
| Podcast technology is notoriously unsophisticated, especially when it comes to audience engagement or community building. Listeners can't favorite or comment on episodes. It's difficult to discover new shows and nearly impossible to share them. You can't tweet an audio clip. But for all the headaches, there’s an upside for podcasters: it’s also harder for trolls to get in touch. | | |
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| The Atlantic |
| They distort the nature of the scientific enterprise, rewrite its history, and overlook many of its most important contributors. | | |
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 | YouTube |
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