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By luca vanz

robe da leggere per informarsi. a volte lunghe, a volte interessanti (e altre meno) ma sempre da sapere.

Ribelli 5 stelle contro saggi PD!
neroeditions.com - Fabrizio Luisi
Degli ultimi mesi di vita politica italiana un aspetto che mi ha molto colpito è la scarsa competenza in comunicazione politica delle forze …
Social Media
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
The Atlantic - Jean M. Twenge
More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis. One day last summer, around noon,
Quella dei jihadisti è una rivolta generazionale e nichilista
internazionale.it - Olivier Roy
27 novembre 2015 12:43 La Francia è in guerra! Sì, ma contro chi o cosa? Il gruppo Stato islamico (Is) non manda cittadini siriani in Francia per …
Loss of Fertile Land Fuels ‘Looming Crisis’ Across Africa
The New York Times - By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
LAIKIPIA, Kenya — The two elders, wearing weather-beaten cowboy hats with the strings cinched under their chins, stood at the edge of an empty farm, covering their mouths in disbelief. Their homes — neat
Jeremy England, the Man Who May One-Up Darwin
OZY - Meghan Walsh
On a sunny afternoon, at a bustling cafe less than a mile from Stanford University’s campus, near Palo Alto, and more than 5,000 miles from his home, …
What the World Would Look Like if All the Ice Melted
National Geographic
Magazine If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely, global warming will eventually melt all the ice at the poles and on mountaintops, raising sea level by 216 feet. Explore what the world’s new coastlines
The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked
The Guardian - Carole Cadwalladr
A shadowy global operation involving big data, billionaire friends of Trump and the disparate forces of the Leave campaign influenced the result of the EU referendum. As Britain heads to the polls again,
Luddites have been getting a bad rap for 200 years. But, turns out, they were right
Quartz - By Michael J. Coren
Things did not end well for the Luddites. The group of weavers and textile artisans in early 1800s were crushed by the British government after resisting the destruction of their livelihoods by industrialization.
Is It Time to Break Up Google?
The New York Times - By JONATHAN TAPLIN
In just 10 years, the world’s five largest companies by market capitalization have all changed, save for one: Microsoft. Exxon Mobil, General Electric, Citigroup and Shell Oil are out and Apple, Alphabet
Air strikes are not an effective tactic of war, but we keep using them anyway
Timeline
Bombs over Baghdad? Largely ineffectual. Scott BeauchampBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Apr 22, 2017 American military involvement in Afghanistan has been …
Great Migrations | Map
laphamsquarterly.org
Creativity will be the source of our next industrial revolution, not machines
Quartz - By Itai Palti
Growth in the first industrial revolution was driven by engineering, the second through electricity and production lines, and the third by technology and information. The modern economies that will undergo
Selfies
Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’ – Abeba Birhane
aeon.co
According to Ubuntu philosophy, which has its origins in ancient Africa, a newborn baby is not a person. People are born without ‘ena’, or selfhood, …
How We Learn to Exclude People
New York Magazine - Cari Romm
We start learning how to form friendships pretty much as soon as we’re born: the first time we hold a gaze, return a smile, or recognize a face or a …
Guru per sempre
prismomag.com - Andrea Girolami
. È stato un cambiamento di paradigma lento e strisciante ma finalmente possiamo annunciarlo senza paura di essere smentiti. Il giovane imprenditore …
Five numbers that will define the next 100 years
BBC Future - Miriam Quick / Illustrations by Valentina D'Efilippo
From energy to life expectancy, these crucial statistics could define Earth’s upcoming century. (Click/pinch to enlarge) How will the world’s population continue to increase? There will be 11.2 billion
The torture of Tokyo rush hour, up close and impersonal
huckmagazine.com - Text By Cian Traynor
The Odakyu Odawara Line carries one-and-a-half million people across Tokyo every single day. It starts in the suburbs southwest of the city and …
Designing Facebook for Mobile VR
medium.com
Lessons from the making of the Facebook 360 app for Gear VR Gabriel ValdiviaBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Mar 16, 2017 The mission of the Facebook …
How Aristotle Created the Computer
The Atlantic - Chris Dixon
The philosophers he influenced set the stage for the technological revolution that remade our world. THE HISTORY Of computers is often told as a history of objects, from the abacus to the Babbage engine
What He Could Do
nybooks.com - Mark Danner
What we are witnessing now is the birth of a new political order, and the more frantic a handful of media elites become, the more powerful that new …
The 100 Things We Need To Do To Reverse Global Warming
Fast Company - By Adele Peters
Paul Hawken’s new book Drawdown claims to have made a definitive list of the most effective global strategies for lowering our emissions. Don’t despair: they’re all totally achievable. If you read anything
Why the Planet Earth II Episode on Cities Is So Startling
The Atlantic - Sam Kriss
It gives us a glimpse of our strange future. It used to happen a lot: Teetering home drunk and disconsolate late at night through the shadowy semi-suburbs of north London, I would turn a corner and find,
Stephen Hawking
Norwegian robot learns to self-evolve and 3D print itself in the lab – Fanatical Futurist by International Keynote Speaker
globalfuturist.org
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF For the first time we are seeing how it’s possible for robots in the future to design and evolve, manufacture and assemble …
Crash: how computers are setting us up for disaster
The Guardian - Tim Harford
We increasingly let computers fly planes and carry out security checks. Driverless cars are next. But is our reliance on automation dangerously diminishing our skills? When a sleepy Marc Dubois walked
Fake News Is About to Get Even Scarier than You Ever Dreamed
Vanity Fair - By Nick Bilton
What we saw in the 2016 election is nothing compared to what we need to prepare for in 2020. Less than a month after Donald Trump was improbably elected the 45th president of the United States, a strange
How to Be Lucky - Issue 44: Luck
nautil.us - Chelsea Wald
“Luck is believing you’re lucky.”—Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named DesireIn 1995, a wounded 35-year-old woman named Anat Ben-Tov gave an …
The Movie with a Thousand Plotlines
The New Yorker - Raffi Khatchadourian
Will interactive films be this century’s defining art form? Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, young directors who go by the joint film credit Daniels, are known for reality-warped miniatures—short films,
Comedy
How Jokes Won the Election
The New Yorker - Emily Nussbaum
How do you fight an enemy who’s just kidding? Since November 9th, we’ve heard a lot of talk about unreality, and how what’s normal bends when you’re in a state of incipient autocracy. There’s been a lot