The Love and Terror of Nick Cave.
Unspeakable tragedy and grief had their way with Nick Cave, and his music had to change yet again.
Video: James Turrell’s singular quest to transform a crater into a natural-light observatory.
Why do your musical tastes get frozen over in your twenties?
One grim day (when youth is over) you find that new music gets on your nerves. But why do our musical tastes freeze over?
The AI Cargo Cult.
Hyper-intelligent algorithms are not going to take over the world for these five reasons.
Hey, Computer Scientists! Stop Hating on the Humanities.
It’s possible that listening to non-computer scientists will slow the Silicon Valley machine: Diverse worldviews can produce argument. But slowing down in places where reasonable people can disagree is a good thing. In an era where even elections are won and lost on digital battlefields, tech companies need to move less fast and break fewer things.
How Hollywood Remembers Steve Bannon.
He says that, before he became a senior adviser to the President, he was a successful player in the film industry. But what did he actually do?
If only we saw the carnage that trauma surgeons see every day.
“Mindless Eating” – or how to send an entire life of research into question.
(…) “there are currently 42 publications from Wansink which are alleged to contain minor to very serious issues, which have been cited over 3,700 times, are published in over 25 different journals, and in eight books, spanning over 20 years of research.” That’s enough to cause an entire field to rethink what it thought it knew.
This content is appropriate for people of all ages. And that’s the point. The days of targeting media and products at people based on their age is over.
Relevant: Don’t Call Me a Millennial — I’m an Old Millennial.
Tourism kills.
Amazing natural wonders destroyed by idiot tourists.
Want to experience the natural wonders of our Eden-like Earth? You better make sure you get there ahead of these bozos.
(What a questionable advice in this regard.)