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From a 1983 profile in 60 Minutes, Captain Grace M. Hopper, former American computer scientist and Navy rear admiral, and one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, explains a nanosecond. You can skip to 4:00, but the whole thing is good.

Apr 30, 2019
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A short film to anticipate this summer's Olympics: Nominated for the Oscar for best documentary shorts, Stay Close tells the story of Keeth Smart, Brooklyn fencer. 

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It takes awareness to see what’s playing out in your life. It takes a lot of insight to understand how your childhood dynamics are meddling in your ability to live your adult life.

Confessions of a divorced wedding blogger.
↩︎ Afterglow
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“We are still in the early days of an evolving climate era.” The world is experiencing the warmest winter ever recorded.
↩︎ Bloomberg 3h
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A woman and her husband use thousands of Lego to supply a German town with wheelchair ramps.
↩︎ Gizmodo 3d

Anger is strong and valuable if it expresses well-grounded outrage and faces forward—with constructive ideas, a refusal of payback retributivism, and, let’s hope, a radical trust in what we may create by joining together.

Martha Nussbaum says victim anger can be useful to feminists, but it can also become excessive and obsessive.
↩︎ Boston Review
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No matter the suffering of newspapers, Page Six still thrives, in part by supporting people like Harvey Weinstein.
↩︎ Esquire 3d

A subreddit enables you to finally find out if you were wrong in an argument that’s been bothering you.

In case you haven't seen it before, the Reddit channel AITA (Am I the Asshole) offers catharsis "for the frustrated moral philosopher in all of us."

Basically, users post a conflict, give both sides of the story, then the community votes if they were in the right or in the wrong. It's been a lot of fun for a while, and there's a whole separate channel for some of the best and worst. Here's a recent example: 

Here's the discussion after. It would appear he's the asshole.

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"Best case scenario: You know the Heimlich. Worst case scenario: Your friend dies." A list of TikTok challenges that may kill you.
↩︎ VICE 3d

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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In Lottie Davies's latest work, a fictional journey across Britain, from the south-west of England to the far north of Scotland.
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The first person to reach the North and South Poles and Mt. Everest on foot couldn't find his way to Logan Airport.
↩︎ CBC 4d

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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