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A great explainer video from the folks at Kurzgesagt. The universe is
unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. Soo… there just has
to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why don’t we see any aliens? Where
are they? And more importantly, what does this tell us a...
Triumphant
Tories vow to ram through mass spying bill -- you can stop them!
Boing Boing|Cory
Doctorow
Ed from the Open Rights Group writes, "The
Conservatives have won an absolute majority in the General Election. The Home
Secretary Theresa May has already
said that she will use this majority to pass a new Snoopers'
Charter."
I had a friend who wanted to get better at
painting. But she thought she had to be in Paris, with all the conditions right.
She never made it to Paris. Now she sits in a cubicle under fluorescent lights,
filling out paperwork all day.
The promised returns from globalization just
aren't there: poor countries don't have as much to spend, corrupt governments
undermine foreign multinationals, domestic rivals hack trade secrets out of
multinationals foreign offices and doing business all over the world is
complicated and ex...
Harvard/Chicago economist Luigi Zingales published
a sharply
argued, searing paper about the finance industry's reputation for corruption
and social uselessness, concluding that it's largely deserved and that academic
economists have a role to play in reforming it.
Libraries have always been places where people
gathered for intellectual inquiry, where communities could form around emerging
ideologies that challenged the status quo.
Boing Boing|Leigh
Alexander
People often say they are enthusiastic about games
because "they can tell stories", or because they enable narrative moments not
possible in other media. But although there are numerous flashes of brilliance
in games, this potential often feels like something they circle, but never
attain.
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