Minbox
Minbox is a lightweight menubar app that lets you send files to the right people faster than Dropbox.
It was made by the guys behind Penzu, a secret journal.
You should check it out.
Google Glass app lets you simply wink to take a photo
Google Glass app lets you simply wink to take a photo
And so it begins.
How Muslims see Women’s rights around the world. A survey conducted by Pew, courtesy of The Atlantic.
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How Muslims see Women’s rights around the world. A survey conducted by Pew, courtesy of The Atlantic.
On Brain Computer Interfaces
Nick Bilton:
In a couple of years, we could be turning on the lights at home just by thinking about it, or sending an e-mail from our smartphone without even pulling the device from our pocket. Farther into the future, your robot assistant will appear by your side with a glass of lemonade simply because it knows you are thirsty.
Google Glass is only the beginning.
On Brain Computer Interfaces
bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/2…
Nick Bilton:
In a couple of years, we could be turning on the lights at home just by thinking about it, or sending an e-mail from our smartphone without even pulling the device from our pocket. Farther into the future, your robot assistant will appear by your side with a glass of lemonade simply because it knows you are thirsty.
Google Glass is only the beginning.
For years, psychologists thought we instantly label each other by ethnicity. But one intriguing study proposes this is far from inevitable, with obvious implications for tackling racism.
Interesting.
For years, psychologists thought we instantly label each other by ethnicity. But one intriguing study proposes this is far from inevitable, with obvious implications for tackling racism.
Interesting.
Mars One
www.theatlantic.com/technolog…
Megan Garber for The Atlantic:
If you are at least 18 years of age and curious and capable and resourceful, with a capacity for self-reflection, an ability to trust other people, and a deep sense of purpose, then you can to go to Mars. Maybe. The Mars One project, which is planning to send a group of people to colonize the Red Planet, has officially opened its applications process to public voting. If you are one of the people ultimately selected for the program, if all goes according to plan, you will depart Earth in 2023 to follow in the epic footsteps of Magellan and Gagarin and Armstrong, staking a claim for humanity’s extension into a new and unknown world.
The only catch? You will not be coming back.
Amazing.
Quattrone has been sitting quietly at the end of the table. He clears his throat and speaks:
“Buy Intel.”
Jean-Louis Gassée offers 7 reasons for Apple to buy Intel in what is not such a far-fetched idea.
Quattrone has been sitting quietly at the end of the table. He clears his throat and speaks:
“Buy Intel.”
Jean-Louis Gassée offers 7 reasons for Apple to buy Intel in what is not such a far-fetched idea.
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Behind the scenes photos of Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back.
Update: here’s the source link.
An interesting Japanese hairstyle: Ripe Tomato.
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An interesting Japanese hairstyle: Ripe Tomato.
Pavlovian reactions aren’t just for dogs and learn about taste aversion, or why you should nail the dinner you’re cooking for your date.
Pavlovian reactions aren’t just for dogs and learn about taste aversion, or why you should nail the dinner you’re cooking for your date.
The missing link between economics and morality
The missing link between economics and morality
Paul Krugman, definitely not a supporter of austerity economics, explains why austerity, although repeatedly criticised by economists, stuck for so long before policymakers realised it wasn’t working too well:
Part of the answer surely lies in the widespread desire to see economics as a morality play, to make it a tale of excess and its consequences. We lived beyond our means, the story goes, and now we’re paying the inevitable price. Economists can explain ad nauseam that this is wrong, that the reason we have mass unemployment isn’t that we spent too much in the past but that we’re spending too little now, and that this problem can and should be solved. No matter; many people have a visceral sense that we sinned and must seek redemption through suffering — and neither economic argument nor the observation that the people now suffering aren’t at all the same people who sinned during the bubble years makes much of a dent.
Another reason is that apparently, people from different backgrounds wish different things from economic policies. And the American 1% are imposing a not so democratic position on the way the economy is to be conducted:
What, after all, do people want from economic policy? The answer, it turns out, is that it depends on which people you ask — a point documented in a recent research paper by the political scientists Benjamin Page, Larry Bartels and Jason Seawright. The paper compares the policy preferences of ordinary Americans with those of the very wealthy, and the results are eye-opening.
Thus, the average American is somewhat worried about budget deficits, which is no surprise given the constant barrage of deficit scare stories in the news media, but the wealthy, by a large majority, regard deficits as the most important problem we face. And how should the budget deficit be brought down? The wealthy favor cutting federal spending on health care and Social Security — that is, “entitlements” — while the public at large actually wants to see spending on those programs rise.
You get the idea: The austerity agenda looks a lot like a simple expression of upper-class preferences, wrapped in a facade of academic rigor. What the top 1 percent wants becomes what economic science says we must do.
Check this FT article rounding up experiences of 6 countries which tried austerity.
The missing link between economics and morality
Paul Krugman, definitely not a supporter of austerity economics, explains why austerity, although repeatedly criticised by economists, stuck for so long before policymakers realised it wasn’t working too well:
Part of the answer surely lies in the widespread desire to see economics as a morality play, to make it a tale of excess and its consequences. We lived beyond our means, the story goes, and now we’re paying the inevitable price. Economists can explain ad nauseam that this is wrong, that the reason we have mass unemployment isn’t that we spent too much in the past but that we’re spending too little now, and that this problem can and should be solved. No matter; many people have a visceral sense that we sinned and must seek redemption through suffering — and neither economic argument nor the observation that the people now suffering aren’t at all the same people who sinned during the bubble years makes much of a dent.
Another reason is that apparently, people from different backgrounds wish different things from economic policies. And the American 1% are imposing a not so democratic position on the way the economy is to be conducted:
What, after all, do people want from economic policy? The answer, it turns out, is that it depends on which people you ask — a point documented in a recent research paper by the political scientists Benjamin Page, Larry Bartels and Jason Seawright. The paper compares the policy preferences of ordinary Americans with those of the very wealthy, and the results are eye-opening.
Thus, the average American is somewhat worried about budget deficits, which is no surprise given the constant barrage of deficit scare stories in the news media, but the wealthy, by a large majority, regard deficits as the most important problem we face. And how should the budget deficit be brought down? The wealthy favor cutting federal spending on health care and Social Security — that is, “entitlements” — while the public at large actually wants to see spending on those programs rise.
You get the idea: The austerity agenda looks a lot like a simple expression of upper-class preferences, wrapped in a facade of academic rigor. What the top 1 percent wants becomes what economic science says we must do.
Check this FT article rounding up experiences of 6 countries which tried austerity.