January
- How Disgust Explains Everything #science #psychology #insight
- Economists Pin More Blame on Tech for Rising Inequality #economics #tech #insight
- Beauty filters are changing the way young girls see themselves #ai #tech #insight #psychology #culture
February
- What Makes Group Decisions Go Wrong. And Right #society #insight #paradox
- The World Needs More Scientist-Surfers #science #insight #nature #mindset
- The Calculated Madness of Marc-André Leclerc #climber #cerro #torre #nature #mindset
- Decoding Dickens’s Secret Notes to Himself, One Symbol at a Time #science #insight #literature #AI
- How China captured Hollywood #china #cinema #insight #business #paradox
- Jack London’s Candid 1903 Advice to Writers Trying to Get Into Print #advice #literature #insight
- You Can Learn to Love Being Alone #insight #nytimes
March
- What Was the TED Talk? #insight #ideas #thedriftmag
- Apple may have finally gotten too big for its unusual corporate structure #insight #paradox #corporate #economy
- How Air Pollution Across America Reflects Racist Policy From the 1930s #insight #racism #pollution #social #science
- How a Mystery Illness Cost One Writer a Decade of Health #insight #racism #disease #health #science
- Inside Big Tech’s Race to Patent Everything #technology #it #patents
- The story of Playdate #idea #development #product #gestalt #design #ethos
- Russia has already lost #insight #strategy #war #logistics #ethos
- How we make sense of Time #insight #time #music
April
- Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? #music #legacy #insight #wagner
- How Nadia Boulanger Raised a Generation of Composers #music #insight #theory #ideas
- What Regret Tells Us #science #neurosciences #insight #behaviour #social
- An ocean of noise: how sonic pollution is hurting marine life #insight #environment #the_guardian #ocean #sonic #pollution
- Robots Show Us Who We Are #insight #ideas #ai
- Russia Is Being Hacked at an Unprecedented Scale #DDoS #Russia #cyberwar #security
May
- An ode to science #science #insight #creativity
- I Have to Admit, I Have a Very Low Opinion of Human Beings #science #neuroscience #ants
- Love is biological bribery #science #evolution #insight
- What cold-water swimming taught me about mindfulness #mind #nature #swimming #self-perception
June
- How to Design a Product That Is Easy to Repair #sustainability #marketing #insight
- Colorado Fixes Wheelchair Repair with New Bill #inequality #tech #disabilities
- The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE #insight #IBM #Gates #Microsoft #history
July
- The Lindy effect #economy #theory #insight
- Japan’s secret to taming the coronavirus: peer pressure #sociology #covid #social_science
- The Island That Humans Can’t Conquer #nature #history #politics
- A New Database Reveals How Much Humans Are Messing With Evolution #science #insight #evolution
- The Well-Tempered Synthesizer. Wendy Carlos’s music of the spheres #music #review #Bach #synth #insight
- The World Can’t Wean Itself Off Chinese Lithium #economics #china #lithium #ecology
August
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For decades, cartographers have been hiding covert illustrations inside of Switzerland’s official maps #maps #cartography #hidden
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‘Mind-blowing’: Why do men’s paintings cost 10 times more than women’s? #insight #art #marketing
- The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score #work #insight
- A Reply to Christopher Hamacher's "Zen Has No Morals!" #zen #insight #buddhism
- A Star Maestro, fighting brain cancer, finds Peace in Music #music #insight #buddhism
September
- Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company #patagonia #environment #insight #capitalism #disruption #lateral_thinking
- The animal translators #insight #animals #nature #machine_learning
- Ashram Tapes: The devotional music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda #music #documentary
- How Coltrane broke "My favorite things") #music #documentary #insight
- The most feared song in jazz, explained #coltrane #chord #insight #creativity #disruption
- Can Smartphones Help Predict Suicide? #behavior #health #insight #data #disruption
November
- Are Metal Fans Angrier than Jazz Fans? A Genre-Wise Exploration of the Emotional Language of Music Listeners on Reddit #emotional #machine_learning #insight #research #reddit
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AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating) #ai #paradigm #insight #creativity #disruption #paradox
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Lawsuit Takes Aim at the Way A.I. Is Built #paradox #github #lawsuit #copyright #law
December
- Strange coincidences: Are they fluke events or acts of God? #insight #serendipity
- Apple Tracks You More Than You Think #security #insight #tracking #cybersecurity
- ‘Nobody knows what’s wrong with me’ – life with an undiagnosed condition #health #inmune #condition
- Our 14,400-Year-Old Relationship with Bread #science #insight #history #bread #smithsonian
- The AI Team that Brought Back Andy Warhol #ai #art #recreation
- Why 21 cm is the magic length for the Universe #science #insight #universe
- How an Early Oil Industry Study Became Key in Climate Lawsuits #environment #yale #law #science
- How digital technology is helping decode the sounds of Nature #sound #nature #decode
- How Anger Affects the Body #emotion #body #brain #insight
- Why do the rich get richer — even during global crises? #economics #insight #pandemic