The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. | | | | Mercedes Ruehl is Connie Russo in Married to the Mob. Don't mess with Tony.
(Orion Pictures) | | | | |  | “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
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| | rantnrave:// We've been thinking about a lot of cool ideas and concepts at REDEF this week. And we turned those into some epic sets... Through dramatizations of sex, class, protest, and violence, fashion’s most controversial ads often confront unspoken truths. They’ve also stirred public debate and have been banned for taboo imagery. Do they represent freedom of expression or harmful stereotypes? FashionSET: "Shock, Inspire, and Sell: Controversial Fashion Ads"... Mastering engineers are the last people to touch an album before it's finished and yet, admit it, you have no idea what they do. You are not alone. The mastering masters do their best to explain, and they kindly ask you to let them turn down the volume. MusicSET: "What Is Mastering and Why Is That Record So Damn Loud?"... Pro football is back in LOS ANGELES but it’s not thriving -- yet. Can the NFL’s return to LA work? Will LA ever feel like home for the RAMS and CHARGERS? SportsSET: "Who Wanted an NFL Team in LA Anyway?"... My friend ADAM BAIN was teaching me about BITCOIN this week. A hard job. Then he sent this story to me. You would have to sedate me or just kill me. Now worth $60,000,000... I'm not sure why the sneaker app GOAT isn't registered as a narcotic. I'm hooked... JOE MARCHESE keyed me into this fake news explainer. Horrifying. The people that do it and the reactions... My nieces and nephew use this new math. It's mystifying to me given the old math worked fine. And for some reason it reminded me of this math lesson from the greatest show ever, THE WIRE... Kudos to HELSINKI tourism... Happy Birthday to LISA SILFEN-LAMSTEIN, MAYO STUNTZ, DAVID WERTHEIMER, and GLENN GINSBURG. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | AP News |
| WASHINGTON (AP) - It was just before noon in Moscow on March 10, 2016, when the first volley of malicious messages hit the Hillary Clinton campaign. The first 29 phishing emails were almost all misfires. Addressed to people who worked for Clinton during her first presidential run, the messages bounced back untouched. | | |
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 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
| More than a dozen tourists from across the country have said TripAdvisor muzzled their first-hand stories of blackouts, rapes and injuries. | | |
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 | Medium |
| Not long ago, House of Cards came back for the fifth season, finally ending a long wait for binge watchers across the world who are interested in an American politician's ruthless ascendance to presidency. For them, kicking off a marathon is as simple as reaching out for your device or remote, opening the Netflix app and hitting Play. | | |
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 | Wired |
| To replicate ourselves in AI, we first have to embrace human error-and as sci-fi writer Hugh Howey argues, we probably shouldn't. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| What if a drug could give you all the benefits of a workout? | | |
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 | Vulture |
| From "Alien" to "Ghostbusters" to "The Warriors." | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| His approval rating remains historically low and confidence in his handling of key issues has declined. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| The platform is so good at ‘microtargeting’ that many small e-commerce companies barely even bother advertising anywhere else. | | |
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 | TechCrunch |
| Aquantia up 6% following semiconductor IPO "Make No Small Plans" is the Summit Series motto, and it doesn't. The "Burning Man meets Davos" event company has bought a mountain, rented cruise ships, and this week, is taking over Los Angeles. | | |
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 | Salon |
| The young Australian band never cared about labels, so they showed up uninvited at punk rock's Mecca in 1977 | | |
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 | McKinsey & Company |
| A second wave of automation in banking will increase capacity and free employees to focus on higher-value projects. To capture the opportunity, banks must take a strategic, rather than tactical, approach. | | |
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 | The Daily Beast |
| Trump’s EPA chief cited the ‘Joshua Principle’ to exclude real scientists from agency science advisory boards and include industry-paid ones. That’s not Joshua-it’s King Herod. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| The New York Times tracked international ape smugglers from Congolese rain forests to the back streets of Bangkok. Here is what unfolded. | | |
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 | Curbed |
| The dynastic model of U.S. land ownership is changing | | |
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 | Lapham’s Quarterly |
| A conversation on the deep history of humans and music with Gary Tomlinson, author of A Million Years of Music. | | |
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 | Aspen Ideas Festival |
| Now more than ever, doctors are relying heavily on machine-learning technologies like IBM Watson to mine repositories of health data, recognize trends, and respond with potential treatments. | | |
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 | Tedium |
| The story of Virgin Cola, Richard Branson’s bold attempt to take on Coca-Cola and Pepsi at their own game. Of course it failed, but it did so stylishly. | | |
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| The Daily Beast |
| Washington, DC, resident and lifelong Democrat Ken Stern took a year or so to search out and confront his purported Red State enemies. He was utterly changed by what he discovered. | | |
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 | The Illusion of More |
| That may seem obvious, but if you're an internet service provider who fails to uphold your end of the DMCA bargain, you'd sure like the courts to think of your service as analogous to the VCR. Certainly, this is fundamental to the appeal filed in the case of BMG v. Cox Communications, for which oral arguments were heard at the 4th Circuit on October 25. | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| “Much ado about nothing.” | | |
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| The New York Times |
| War veterans, victims of abuse and others deserve a chance to use this drug to heal. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| From ‘Stranger Things’ to ‘Black-ish’ to ‘SMILF,’ it is a great time for well-intentioned, constantly overwhelmed (and occasionally plain crude) TV parents | | |
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