Why Did America Give Up on Mass Transit? (Don't Blame Cars.)
Streetcar, bus, and metro systems have been ignoring one lesson for 100 years: Service drives demand.
Eine Million Kulturentwickler: reddits Place.
Vergangenes Jahr haben über eine Million User einer Internetplattform gemeinsam ein digitales Kunstwerk geschaffen. Dabei haben sie konkurriert, aber auch zusammengearbeitet - ganz wie bei kultureller Evolution üblich, wie nun Forscher berichten.
Watching blockbusters in an age of calamity.
Our biggest movies keep saving the world, but they never argue that the world is worth saving.
Welcome to Temporal – Interact with multiple IPFS protocols through a simple and easy-to-use interface.
Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web.
I get the appeal of the I.D.W. I share the belief that our institutional gatekeepers need to crack the gates open much more. I don’t, however, want to live in a culture where there are no gatekeepers at all. Given how influential this group is becoming, I can’t be alone in hoping the I.D.W. finds a way to eschew the cranks, grifters and bigots and sticks to the truth-seeking.
The Dark Core of Personality: The D-Factor.
(…) they found support for Spearman's principle of the indifference of the indicator. The D-factor captured the dark core of many different dark traits without crucially relying on any one measure.
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Prolegs: Spotlight on Caterpillar Anatomy.
FairCoin – An energy saving blockchain facilitating cooperation instead of competition.
'Wasabi' Rarely Contains Actual Wasabi.
All but the most committed of sushi chefs have given up on using true wasabi (Wasabia japonica), a semiaquatic herb native to the mountain streams of central Japan’s Nagano Prefecture. Most sushi fans are actually eating a mixture of ground horseradish, Chinese mustard, and green food coloring.