The Morning News

Let's get ready to rumble! New swag for the 2020 Tournament of Books.

↩︎ The TMN Store 6h

We are entering an age when one of the most important policy questions will be how and where to deploy machine decision-makers. In doing so, we must be mindful of our own biases just as we are the biases of algorithms.

“Robophobia” refers to biased thinking about the costs and benefits of nonhuman decision-makers.

↩︎ Lawfare

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An oddly beguiling look a 17th-century trunk of letters that once belonged to a pair of Dutch postmasters.

↩︎ The Brienne Collection 6h

In Lottie Davies's latest work, a fictional journey across Britain, from the south-west of England to the far north of Scotland.

↩︎ Lottie Davies 12h

The first person to reach the North and South Poles and Mt. Everest on foot couldn't find his way to Logan Airport.

↩︎ CBC 12h

Ever wonder where big, expensive architectural models are born? RJ Models in Shenzhen, China.

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The political incentives for a Republican administration to protect higher education just aren’t that strong anymore.

American universities have a foreign money problem. It’s foolish to expect Republicans to be sympathetic.

↩︎ Bloomberg

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A large-scale survey of journalists (and their tweets) finds no bias against conservatives or liberals in the news they cover.

↩︎ Dropbox 12h

As female players prepare for their day in court, tax records show that US Soccer spends much more on men’s coaches than women’s.

↩︎ The Washington Post 13h

The user-built "Pinball Map" lists 25,548 pinball machines in 7,456 locations worldwide.

↩︎ Pinball Map 13h

Currently available on vimeo, but perhaps not for long: Stanley Kubrick's Boxes, the short documentary that resulted from Jon Ronson visiting Kubrick's house shortly after the director's death.

When he arrived, he found that half the house was filled by more than one thousand boxes containing snap shots, newspaper clippings, film out-takes, notes, and fan letters which the director used for research towards each of his films.

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Before 3D glasses, people used “horizontoriums” (by placing their chin on the table) to see images in more dimension.

↩︎ Princeton University Graphic Arts Collection 13h

Airport retail sales increased 20% in 2019 from just five years earlier thanks to more travelers and better design.

↩︎ Quartz 13h

Home ownership is falling in part because it's not the path to riches some governments claim, or even good for society.

↩︎ The Economist 13h

The radio itself came accompanied by an impressive-looking seven-band graphic equalizer (“CU115”) in which you could manually adjust the sound at 60 Hz, 125 Hz, 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 1 kHz, 3 kHz, and 10 kHz by sliding metal bars up and down.

Ander Monson on the joy and pain of memories, starting with his 1987 Nissan Maxima.

↩︎ Literary Hub

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A readability analysis of State of the Union addresses shows the declining complexity of presidents' speeches.

↩︎ Reddit 1d

From the "planet of swoopy arrows map" to the "air mass potato map," a collection of forgotten map types.

↩︎ Tim Wallace 1d

How does America's economic growth under Trump compare? Slightly better than Obama. Far short of Clinton and Reagan.

↩︎ Axios 1d

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Not since the Victorians has it been acceptable to share photos of deceased loved ones; social media and phones changed all that.

↩︎ The New York Times 1d