Category: General
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The worst thing LA could do as it recovers from fire disaster
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in GeneralI’m scared that we’re going to rebuild LA more or less the same way, without using this as an opportunity to rethink how LA is built and reinvest in important public infrastructure like better water supply systems, as well as coming up with a strategy to force a retreat from building in the most risky…
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These people stopped procrastinating. You can too with this advice, they say
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in GeneralFinch often stayed in bed until just one minute before his first video meeting of the day. After it was over, he’d crawl back into bed as he cried over not understanding why his dream job had turned into a nightmare he just couldn’t push through, he said. Those circumstances eventually turned into the worst…
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La prima puntata di Quark
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in GeneralIl 18 marzo 1981, oltre quarant’anni fa, andava in onda sulla Rai, in seconda serata, la prima puntata di “Quark”, lo storico programma di Piero Angela di divulgazione scientifica, tecnologica, naturalistica, alimentare, umanistica alla portata di tutti. Ecco la copertina della puntata, dalle Teche Rai.
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Jeff Koons Doesn’t Get It
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in GeneralWhile Koons may be a man on the moon, he’s looking back at Earth, oblivious to the vastness behind him, if only he would turn around. But perhaps I’m missing the point — after all, why would Koons turn around to face the chill of the infinite universe, when he has the whole world in the…
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The Ceaseless Optimism of Woody Guthrie’s Activist Life
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in GeneralSomehow, the poisonous American anger that swirled around Guthrie never corrupted that innate creative optimism. Empathy was his reliable muse.
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If your Apple Account is grayed out in iPhone Settings
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in GeneralIf you can’t select your Apple Account
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Store your iPhone backup on the cloud with Dropbox
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in Generaluse Dropbox as your main storage for all of your devices. We’ll discuss that further below but, for now, let’s look at how to store an iPhone backup on Dropbox. To upload a backup file to Dropbox, first back up your data to your computer by following the iTunes backup process mentioned earlier. Once you…
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Watch the First 2 Hours of MTV’s Inaugural Broadcast (August 1, 1981)
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in GeneralNot everyone on August 1, 1981 had a VCR at their disposal, and not everybody stayed up until midnight. But fortunately at least one person did, in order to tape the first two hours of a new cable channel called MTV: Music Television. Did they know it would be historic? MTV certainly hoped it would…
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Tex n.109-113 “Chinatown”
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in GeneralIn quest’avventura, Gianluigi Bonelli recuperava l’argomento – e gli avversari – di una storia precedente (contenuta nei n.46 e 47, come ben spiegato nella nostra scheda storica): quindi ci sarebbero stati di nuovo una setta cinese, complici messicani, sparatorie eccetera eccerera. Quanto bastava, insomma, per aspettare freneticamente l’uscita dei nuovi albi della ristampa “Tre Stelle”, che il fratello…
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Il clima di Qom, sei mesi dopo la rivoluzione, nel quale si è svolta l’intervista
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in GeneralIl giorno in cui si autoproclamò capo supremo delle forze armate, una valanga di militari a riposo marciò con mezzi improvvisati sul Kurdistan per obbedire al suo ordine, cogliendo di sorpresa l’esercito. E’ stata una rivoluzione religiosa, non libertaria, ed è troppo prestoper dire se è fallita. Le donne non possono farsi pettinare da parrucchieri…
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L’intervista di Oriana Fallaci a Khomeini
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in GeneralDurante l’intervista esclusiva dell’inviata del Corriere, pubblicata il 26 settembre 1979, Fallaci si tolse il velo definendolo«cencio medievale» e parlò di«segregazione». «Il chador? Porta quell’abito chi ha fatto la rivoluzione», disse Khomeini. «Non sono persone eleganti e truccate come lei, in giro tutte scoperte con dietro un codazzo di uomini»
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Dune Genesis by Frank Herbert
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in GeneralThis essay was originally published in the July 1980 issue of Omni Magazine Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster. Do you want an absolute prediction? Then you want only today, and you reject tomorrow. You are the ultimate conservative. You are trying to…
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Elizabeth Kolbert: «La sesta estinzione è in corso»
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in Generalll suo nome, Elizabeth Kolbert, può non essere noto ai più, nonostante sia la firma di punta del prestigioso settimanale americano New Yorker in tema di ambiente e clima e abbia vinto anche il premio Pulitzer. Il suo libro La Sesta estinzione, però, è considerato oggi una delle pietre miliari in tema di cambiamento climatico e molto di più: uscito…
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Litany against Fear
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in General“I must not fear.Fear is the mind-killer.Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.I will face my fear.I will permit it to pass over me and through me.And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
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Keith Jarrett and the Koln Concert
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in GeneralHow Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the Best-Selling Piano Album of All Time (1975) (Open Culture)
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Byrne’s Euclid
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in GeneralThe First Six Books ofThe Elements of EuclidWith Coloured Diagrams and Symbols A reproduction of Oliver Byrne’s celebrated work from 1847 plus interactive diagrams, cross references, and posters designed by Nicholas Rougeux
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Lilies & Roses Restored illustrations of Pierre-Joseph Redouté
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in GeneralFrom Open Culture:Behold a Digital Restoration of 655 Plates of Roses & Lilies by Pierre-Joseph Redouté: The Greatest Botanical Illustrator of All Time Pierre-Joseph Redouté made his name by painting flowers, an achievement impossible without a meticulousness that exceeds all bounds of normality. He published his three-volume collection Les Roses and his eight-volume collection Les Liliacées between 1802 and 1824, and…
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Leaving Stripe
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in GeneralI did the thing you’re not supposed to do. I quit my job at Stripe without another lined up.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art – Open Access
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in GeneralNew York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is making all public domain works in its collection available online for both scholarly and commercial purposes, it announced today. The new Open Access policy also introduces partnerships between the museum and Creative Commons, Wikimedia, Artstor, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), Art Resource, and Pinterest. https://www.metmuseum.org/policies/image-resourcesTo identify these images, look for the…
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The Human Rights concerts
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in GeneralThe “Human Rights Concerts” is the collective name of the series of concerts presented by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights organization Amnesty International in the years 1986-1998. 2013 is the 65th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – the Magna Carta of the human race that inspires Amnesty International.…