Thought Provoking Reads
Provocative and interesting articles from around the web.
Collection by Charles Baldwin
The New Yorker
The Day the Dinosaurs Died
20+ min · · A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth. · Shared by 678, including Korben, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Richard Deitsch, Florian Hanke 🍎, Marsha Collier, Mathew Ingram, Nils Hitze, keithwilson@fediphilosophy.org on Mastodon 🦣, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Dominik Grolimund, Aral Balkan, Mike Davidson, Michael Seemann, Brian Resnick, Tiago Forte, mdy, Beto Esquivel, Ward Plunet, Ajit Pai, Jeff Atwood
The Verge
Three Facebook moderators break their NDAs to expose a company in crisis
20+ min · · Shared by 640, including Thomas Power, Marsha Collier, massimo mantellini, zeynep tufekci, Casey Newton, Francine Hardaway (hardaway.eth), Korben, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Jane, Chris Messina, CORRECTIV, anildash.com, DHH, Tristan Nitot - nitot chez framapiaf point org, Liliane Ferrari ™, Antonio Vieira Santos, Mark Kaigwa, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Matt Navarra, Mathew Ingram
The Atlantic
What Really Happened to Malaysia’s Missing Airplane
20+ min · · Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say. · Shared by 541, including Vikram Dutt, Howard Getson, René Pfitzner, Saigoneer, Mark Kaigwa, mrbrown, Richard Deitsch, Tom Connor, Christian Fauteux, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Arin Basu, Jill Jacobson, Carl Morris, ja hallo met kasper, Marsha Collier, Neil Lee, Florian Hanke 🍎, BrendanEich, Katja Evertz, Tim Harford
The Guardian
The mindfulness conspiracy
16+ min · · The long read: It is sold as a force that can help us cope with the ravages of capitalism, but with its inward focus, mindful meditation may be the enemy of activism · Shared by 527, including Fern, Carl Morris, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Jonathan Kogan, Harold Jarche, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, krisdahn.eth, Bill Johnston, Brian Solis, Gabriele, Bjorn Larsen, The Psychologist, Austin Kleon, Mark Kaigwa, Antonio Vieira Santos, Nilofer Merchant, Muhammad Althaf, Sam Proud, Dominik Grolimund, Daniel Bentes
medium.com
Why Do All Websites Look the Same?
6 min · · Today’s internet is bland. Everything looks the same: generic fonts, no layouts to speak of, and an absence of expressive visuals. So I asked my students to redesign it, and here’s what they created. · Shared by 221, including Matthias «Delay» Göbel, luis antónio santos, Simone Corsi 💻🚀, Niklaus Gerber, Marc Wieland, Klaus Eck, David Hellmann, Kat, Julian de Keijzer, Carlo Badini, Thomas Pleil, Gabriele, Christian P. Stobbe, Ines Bieler, { Monah } 💡, five5star // Design Graphique, Dominik Grolimund, sascha aßbach, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Mark Kaigwa
Gizmodo
Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files
10 min · · When it comes to their stuff, people often have a hard time letting go. When the object of their obsession are rooms full of old clothes or newspapers, it can be unhealthy—even dangerous. But what… · Shared by 183, including Michael Gisiger, Simon Carless, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
Nautilus Magazine
The English Word That Hasn’t Changed in Sound or Meaning in 8,000 Years
5 min · · The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph… · Shared by 141, including Rick Powell, Charles Baldwin, Jakob Bronebakk, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator
medium.com
This is how Google will collapse
7 min · · The way things might turn out for Google if current trends continue. · Shared by 118, including Eberhard Frank, Johannes Lenz, Lukas Stickelberger, Rand Fishkin, Florian Stambula, Abdelsalam Smadi, Claudio Noguera, Charles Baldwin, Lluís Codina, Stephanie A Kowalski, Arin Basu
Phys.org
Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time
2 min · · Austrian and Chinese scientists have succeeded in teleporting three-dimensional quantum states for the first time. High-dimensional teleportation could play an important role in future quantum… · Shared by 115, including Martina Grolimund, Charles Baldwin, Rick King, Thomas Power, SusanaDeLeón, MD, tcherno, 瑞拿頭, Jonathan Kogan
Longreads
In the Age of the Psychonauts
20+ min · · Three psycho-spiritual “events” of the 1970s — involving Philip K. Dick, Robert Anton Wilson, and Terence and Dennis McKenna — had a strange synchronicity. · Shared by 114, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Tauno, MIT Press, fnord, Charles Baldwin, Gabriele
WIRED
Coding Is for Everyone—as Long as You Speak English
6 min · · Code depends on English—for reasons that are entirely unnecessary at a technical level. · Shared by 102, including Kat, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Backchannel, Florian Hanke 🍎, Kim Schläpfer, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Carl Morris, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Uyên Đỗ, Charles Baldwin
The Cut
The Harvard Professor and the Paternity Trap
20+ min · · A law professor who teaches a class on judgment wouldn’t seem like an obvious mark, would he? · Shared by 101, including Mathew Ingram, Prof Sophie Scott CBE, Will Leitch, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Tiago Forte, Charles Baldwin, David Nagel
The Cut
The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence
20+ min · · What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate’s father? · Shared by 88, including Mathew Ingram, justin, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Bjorn Larsen, Charles Baldwin
The New York Times
The Problem With Greta Thunberg’s Climate Activism
5 min · · Her radical approach is at odds with democracy. · Shared by 83, including ❤️ Umair, Mike Butcher, Katja Evertz, Claudia Sommer, Glyn Britton, Charles Baldwin, Frederic Filloux, Stephanie A Kowalski, Thomas Power, Liliane Ferrari ™, felix salmon
The Atlantic
Netflix’s ‘Our Planet’ Says What Other Nature Series Have Omitted
2 min · · In a groundbreaking move, the beautiful but uncomfortable documentary forces viewers to acknowledge their own complicity in the decline of nature. · Shared by 69, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Vikram Dutt, Charles Baldwin, Alexandra Wong, Maja Grolimund-Kurth, Dominik Grolimund
The New York Times
The Gold Rush for Private Health Data
5 min · · Data as personal property that you can choose to sell is a tempting but bad idea. · Shared by 68, including Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Charles Baldwin, Chris Messina, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Thomas Power, Bjorn Larsen, Bernhard Huessy, Mathew Ingram, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists)