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Suzanne Ciani, Electronic Music Pioneer
Suzanne Ciani: A Life in WavesSuzanne Ciani On Modular Synthesis & The Buchla 200e live performance,...
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How this little fish was once central to cuisine in the Roman Empire
How anchovies, a fish that was once associated with the poor, reached the very heights of...
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Bring me the head of Herman Melville
It hasn't always been devoid of a marker, however. Until recently, Melville's visage graced a small...
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for certain values of 'values'
"We've found as AIs get smarter, they develop their own coherent value systems. For example they...
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The Books of Making
The 75 Most Essential Books for Gen X Aaaand - GO! The list is of course...
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RIP: Rural Indexing Project
"Rural communities are dispersed across the American landscape. The buildings and streetscapes in these places are...
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Do You Turn on the Big Light?
Few things are more contentious among cohabitating adults than "The Big Light." [Slate / Archive] Like...
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It’s alive! It’s alive!
Remember that video from Pixar, years ago, with that cute animated lamp? It appears that Apple...
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An even faster hash table
Andrew Krapivin turned to a common approach for storing data known as a hash table. But...
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Maki-e Fountain Pens
This video about maki-e fountain pens will make you sad that you don't own a maki-e...
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Springtime for Scammers
Matt Stoller and Paul Krugman on the dismantling of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The...
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Thalassa Mechane
SOLSTICE - 5 (YT 10:36), a visually intricate short sci-fi film about resource extraction on another...
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From the very beginning, nothing at all has lasted
Some time around 2200 BC, a high priestess conceived a child and bore him in secret....
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Origami Guide - Beginner to Intermediate
Origami Guide - Beginner to Intermediate Tutorial Site Step by step Introductory Guide to origami. No...
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What is life, after all, but a serialized adventure?
One of the great joys and curiosities of marriage, in my experience, is the way it...
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THEY NOT LIKE US, THEY NOT LIKE US
Sine of the easter eggs/hidden meanings in Kendrick Lamar's now iconic Superbowl half time show.
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Fragile States Index
The Fragile States Index is an interesting site to visit if your interested in comparing the...
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$4.8 million pledged to return island to the wild
$4.8 million [US $3.01 million] pledged to return island to the wild to save threatened species....
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There are simply too many notes, that’s all.
Last September, the film Amadeus turned 40. Long criticized for its looseness with historical fact (no,...
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THE PRICEMASTER HAS SPOKEN
The PriceMaster (32:23, a little NSFW) "'Everything is for sale.' 'Make me an offer!' . ....
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The Casio G-Shock Watch
You remember the scene in David Cronenberg's Crash when the people are sitting on a couch...
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The life of a nepo baby's always intense
She told all these stories with a cigarette and a smile, because she was a survivor....
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'General approach to elder home clear out'
"I thought it might be helpful to review how I approached clearing out my in-laws' condo...