Lydia Davis captures the ambivalence many academics feel about being identified as the type of people who are academics.
↩︎ Conversableeconomist
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I would have died at one of these parties, I know it – falling head first out of a window, probably, after Karl Ove had prematurely creamed at my entrance. (Don’t worry, we’re safe here: he doesn’t…
Almost 21% of Gen Z identifies as LGBT. That’s double the number of millennials (10.5%), quadruple the amount of Gen Xers (4.2%).
↩︎ Gallup
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Many thanks to Open Culture for opening our eyes to director Ivan Reitman’s (RIP) first movie.
Born in Czechoslovakia in 1946—his mother an Auschwitz survivor and his father an underground resistance fighter—Reitman moved to Canada as a young child, where he eventually attended McMaster University. And there he “produced and directed Orientation [in 1968], the most successful student film ever made in Canada.”
Fred Pearce: Don’t blame climate change for catastrophes that were actually caused by bad policy and planning decisions.
↩︎ YaleEnvironment360
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The frightening story of when the company behind your (life-changing) retinal implant abandons the technology.
↩︎ IEEE Spectrum
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February in the mark means a lot of visitors to the park trying to capture the glowing light. From the Los Angeles Times:
The natural phenomenon occurs when the waning sunlight strikes Horsetail Fall on the famed rock face of El Capitan…
Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse is likely decades away, if only for the “generational shifts” required in computing and manufacturing.
↩︎ Protocol
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