Philip Roth ha 80 anni, non scrive più, riceve premi e riconoscimenti ogni giorno (con fare piuttosto distaccato e critico) ma dispensa pareri. Ad esempio, gli è piaciuta moltissimo l’autobiografia di Bruce Springsteen. Un po’ meno l’edizione prestigiosa nei Meridiani di Mondadori (le “Pleiades” di qua d’Alpe).
Money quote: ““Just look at this,” he said to me last month, holding up the ornately bound Mondadori volume, as thick as a Bible and comprising noscripts like “Lamento di Portnoy” and “Zuckerman Scatenato.” “Who reads books like this?””
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/books/review/philip-roth-interview.html
Money quote: ““Just look at this,” he said to me last month, holding up the ornately bound Mondadori volume, as thick as a Bible and comprising noscripts like “Lamento di Portnoy” and “Zuckerman Scatenato.” “Who reads books like this?””
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/books/review/philip-roth-interview.html
NY Times
No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say (Published 2018)
In an exclusive interview, the (former) novelist shares his thoughts on Trump, #MeToo and retirement.
Il mercato del vestiario sta cambiando in maniera radicale. I marchi tipo Zara e H&M stanno creando dinamiche di costo completamente diverse, i produttori soprattutto cinesi hanno prezzi ridicoli grazie all’automazione e infine gli abiti usati non vengono più riciclati perché non conviene e non interessa. Risultato?
Money quote: “The rise of "fast fashion" is thus creating a bleak scenario: The tide of secondhand clothes keeps growing even as the markets to reuse them are disappearing. From an environmental standpoint, that's a big problem. Already, the textile industry accounts for more greenhouse-gas emissions than all international flights and maritime shipping combined; as recycling markets break down, its contribution could soar”
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-15/no-one-wants-your-used-clothes-anymore
Money quote: “The rise of "fast fashion" is thus creating a bleak scenario: The tide of secondhand clothes keeps growing even as the markets to reuse them are disappearing. From an environmental standpoint, that's a big problem. Already, the textile industry accounts for more greenhouse-gas emissions than all international flights and maritime shipping combined; as recycling markets break down, its contribution could soar”
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-15/no-one-wants-your-used-clothes-anymore
Bloomberg.com
No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore
A once-virtuous cycle is breaking down. What now?
Altro che Salerno-Reggio Calabria: dopo 61 anni concluso l’ultimo pezzetto del sistema delle interstate highways.
Money quote: “I-95 is an American marvel. It’s the longest north-south highway in the United States and the country’s most-used highway in terms of vehicle miles traveled, according to the Department of Transportation.
It’s efficient, serving about 10 percent of America’s land area but almost 40 percent of its population, or roughly 110 million people. Its path is “as densely settled as much of Western Europe,” brags the I-95 Corridor Coalition, a group of government agencies that maintain the route”
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/after-61-years-americas-busiest-highway-is-almost-complete/550982/
Money quote: “I-95 is an American marvel. It’s the longest north-south highway in the United States and the country’s most-used highway in terms of vehicle miles traveled, according to the Department of Transportation.
It’s efficient, serving about 10 percent of America’s land area but almost 40 percent of its population, or roughly 110 million people. Its path is “as densely settled as much of Western Europe,” brags the I-95 Corridor Coalition, a group of government agencies that maintain the route”
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/after-61-years-americas-busiest-highway-is-almost-complete/550982/
The Atlantic
After 61 Years, America’s Busiest Highway Is Almost Complete
An infamous gap in Interstate 95 will finally be closed this summer.
Un articolo del NYTimes che vale non fosse altro per la foto di Donald Trump a 22 anni. La storia di come si è fatto riformare per “calli” e non ha fatto il Vietnam
Money quote: “Even if his views on Vietnam are broadly shared today, both his record and his statements on the war have proved fraught for Mr. Trump during his campaign. Last summer, he faced a backlash when he declared that John McCain, the Republican senator who had been a prisoner of war during Vietnam, was “not a war hero,” explaining, “I like people who weren’t captured.” Then a series of audio clips surfaced from the 1990s, including one in which Mr. Trump told Howard Stern, the radio show host, that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases while dating “is my personal Vietnam.””
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html
Money quote: “Even if his views on Vietnam are broadly shared today, both his record and his statements on the war have proved fraught for Mr. Trump during his campaign. Last summer, he faced a backlash when he declared that John McCain, the Republican senator who had been a prisoner of war during Vietnam, was “not a war hero,” explaining, “I like people who weren’t captured.” Then a series of audio clips surfaced from the 1990s, including one in which Mr. Trump told Howard Stern, the radio show host, that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases while dating “is my personal Vietnam.””
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html
Nytimes
Donald Trump’s Draft Deferments: Four for College, One for Bad Feet
With Mr. Trump accused by a dead soldier’s father of having never “sacrificed,” his medical deferment during the Vietnam era is facing new scrutiny.
Sarà il sole, sarà che è domenica, ma a me queste otto regole per fare tutto meglio - prese pari pari dalla palestra - mi sembrano meno scene della media.
Money quote: “There’s an old saying that you’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with. Turns out that’s true. A large and growing body of behavioral science research shows that motivation (or lack thereof) is contagious”
https://medium.com/personal-growth/8-rules-to-do-everything-better-22184251a406
Money quote: “There’s an old saying that you’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with. Turns out that’s true. A large and growing body of behavioral science research shows that motivation (or lack thereof) is contagious”
https://medium.com/personal-growth/8-rules-to-do-everything-better-22184251a406
Medium
8 Rules to Do Everything Better
The most important principles to grow your body and mind
Foto spettacolare: volando sopra il Rose Bowl il fotografo ha beccato al volo l'immagine di un B-2, il bombardiere stealth più iconico dell'aviazione americana. Un incrocio spettacolare e tecnicamente molto, molto difficile.
Money quote 1: "It’s hard. Things are happening really quick. It’s very fluid. I’m flying at 100 miles per hour. They are flying 200 miles an hour in the other [direction]. So, that’s 300 miles per hour. Things happen really quickly."
Money quote 2: "“The plane is my tripod, and it is a moving tripod,” he told me. In fact, the way he took this photograph was literally half-hanging out the window of his plane, his Canon 5D Mark III fitted with a 70–200 mm lens, working the rudder pedals on his craft to put himself in position to fly right over the bomber, as it approached at 200 miles per hour from the opposite direction."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/how-to-take-a-picture-of-the-stealth-bomber-over-the-rose-bowl/549545/
Money quote 1: "It’s hard. Things are happening really quick. It’s very fluid. I’m flying at 100 miles per hour. They are flying 200 miles an hour in the other [direction]. So, that’s 300 miles per hour. Things happen really quickly."
Money quote 2: "“The plane is my tripod, and it is a moving tripod,” he told me. In fact, the way he took this photograph was literally half-hanging out the window of his plane, his Canon 5D Mark III fitted with a 70–200 mm lens, working the rudder pedals on his craft to put himself in position to fly right over the bomber, as it approached at 200 miles per hour from the opposite direction."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/how-to-take-a-picture-of-the-stealth-bomber-over-the-rose-bowl/549545/
The Atlantic
How to Take a Picture of a Stealth Bomber Over the Rose Bowl
An aerial photographer explains precisely how he took this amazing photograph.
Miniere di sale che provengono da un mare interno più antico dell'Oceano Atlantico. Nella Virginia occidentale. È il sale di Kanawa.
Money quote: "However, the history Bruns refers to has another component—one that runs deeper than that of America, or even humanity itself. Indeed, the salt contained in the brine her 350-foot-deep wells carry to the surface was formed more than 420 million years ago and hails from the extinct Iapetus Ocean, a body of water that predates the Atlantic."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/salt-ancient-iapetus-ocean-appalachia-virginia
Money quote: "However, the history Bruns refers to has another component—one that runs deeper than that of America, or even humanity itself. Indeed, the salt contained in the brine her 350-foot-deep wells carry to the surface was formed more than 420 million years ago and hails from the extinct Iapetus Ocean, a body of water that predates the Atlantic."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/salt-ancient-iapetus-ocean-appalachia-virginia
Atlas Obscura
Making Salt From an Ancient, Underground Ocean
West Virginia was once a seabed.
La Gran Bretagna, fra una Brexit e l'altra, ci riprova e pianifica una foresta da costa a costa. Nostalgia di Robin Hood?
Money quote: "Northern England is set to get a whole lot greener. On Sunday, the U.K. government unveiled plans for a vast new forest spanning the country from coast to coast. Shadowing the path of the east-west M62 Highway, the new forest will create a broad green rib across England from Liverpool to the east coast city of Hull."
https://www.citylab.com/environment/2018/01/northern-forest-united-kingdom/550025/
Money quote: "Northern England is set to get a whole lot greener. On Sunday, the U.K. government unveiled plans for a vast new forest spanning the country from coast to coast. Shadowing the path of the east-west M62 Highway, the new forest will create a broad green rib across England from Liverpool to the east coast city of Hull."
https://www.citylab.com/environment/2018/01/northern-forest-united-kingdom/550025/
CityLab
Britain's Next Megaproject: A Coast-to-Coast Forest
The plan is for 50 million new trees to repopulate one of the least wooded parts of the country—and offer a natural escape from several cities in the north.
Tra le righe di questo articolo che racconta la storia della giovane professoressa morta nella esplosione al decollo dello shuttle Challenger, per la quale la NASA ha organizzato una serie i di tributi, c’è anche la storia di un’altra donna: l’altra giovane professoressa che si era allenata per farle da backup in caso di malattia, incidenti a terra, secondi pensieri e che ha perso la lotteria per l’aldilà.
Money note: “McAuliffe taught history, law, and economics at Concord High School in New Hampshire. She put her life on hold for months as she trained alongside the nasa astronaut crew and her backup for the mission, Barbara Morgan, an elementary-school teacher from Idaho. After the Challenger disaster, Morgan worked in nasa’s education division and eventually became an astronaut, flying on the space shuttle Endeavour in 2007. Morgan is one of the board members of the Challenger Center.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/551021/
Money note: “McAuliffe taught history, law, and economics at Concord High School in New Hampshire. She put her life on hold for months as she trained alongside the nasa astronaut crew and her backup for the mission, Barbara Morgan, an elementary-school teacher from Idaho. After the Challenger disaster, Morgan worked in nasa’s education division and eventually became an astronaut, flying on the space shuttle Endeavour in 2007. Morgan is one of the board members of the Challenger Center.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/551021/
Forwarded from MacchiaChannel via @like
Una spiegazione tecnica (ma comprensibile) abbastanza accurata del perché i BitCoin non potranno sostituire tutte le transazioni elettroniche del mondo senza costare una cifra spropositata in spazio/banda/tempo/energia.
Link: http://bit.ly/2DvinJ5
Link: http://bit.ly/2DvinJ5
Hacker Noon
If we lived in a Bitcoin future, how big would the blockchain have to be?
Hint: It’s NOT pretty…
Il NYTimes invece prova ad arrampicarsi oltre il muro della speculazione e indagare la trasformazione che le blockchain, la tecnologia dietro i Bitcoin, porteranno. Con poca fortuna ma tanta buona volontà, direi.
Money quote: “You may be inclined to dismiss these transformations. After all, Bitcoin and Ether’s runaway valuation looks like a case study in irrational exuberance. And why should you care about an arcane technical breakthrough that right now doesn’t feel all that different from signing in to a website to make a credit card payment?
But that dismissal would be shortsighted. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the recent history of the internet, it’s that seemingly esoteric decisions about software architecture can unleash profound global forces once the technology moves into wider circulation. If the email standards adopted in the 1970s had included public-private key cryptography as a default setting, we might have avoided the cataclysmic email hacks that have afflicted everyone from Sony to John Podesta, and millions of ordinary consumers might be spared routinized identity theft. If Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, had included a protocol for mapping our social identity in his original specs, we might not have Facebook.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/magazine/beyond-the-bitcoin-bubble.html
Money quote: “You may be inclined to dismiss these transformations. After all, Bitcoin and Ether’s runaway valuation looks like a case study in irrational exuberance. And why should you care about an arcane technical breakthrough that right now doesn’t feel all that different from signing in to a website to make a credit card payment?
But that dismissal would be shortsighted. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the recent history of the internet, it’s that seemingly esoteric decisions about software architecture can unleash profound global forces once the technology moves into wider circulation. If the email standards adopted in the 1970s had included public-private key cryptography as a default setting, we might have avoided the cataclysmic email hacks that have afflicted everyone from Sony to John Podesta, and millions of ordinary consumers might be spared routinized identity theft. If Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, had included a protocol for mapping our social identity in his original specs, we might not have Facebook.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/magazine/beyond-the-bitcoin-bubble.html
NY Times
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble (Published 2018)
Yes, it’s driven by greed — but the mania for cryptocurrency could wind up building something much more important than wealth.
Anno nuovo, Urania nuovo. Anzi, Jumbo tutto nuovo. - il mio articolo per Fumettologica
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/01/novita-urania-mondadori-2018/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/01/novita-urania-mondadori-2018/
Fumettologica
Anno nuovo, Urania nuovo. Anzi, Jumbo tutto nuovo.
Per il 2018, Urania, la storica testata di fantascienza di Mondadori, ha annunciato importanti novità, sia di contenuti che grafiche.
Iguana congelati: cascano dagli alberi sulla strada, ti fermi e li raccogli, li metti in macchina, si riscaldano, si svegliano e ti attaccano. Un problema tipico se a) abiti in Florida e b) sei americano. (Stesso problema con i gatti nel microonde: da quelle parti va scritto nelle istruzioni, sennò ci si può sbagliare).
Money quote: “On Thursday, we reported iguanas were falling from trees in Florida. Now, we explain why it is happening and what citizens should do in reaction. Bottom line: don't touch them. They are not dead. They may thaw out and attack.”
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/05/576082463/what-to-do-if-you-come-across-a-frozen-iguana
Money quote: “On Thursday, we reported iguanas were falling from trees in Florida. Now, we explain why it is happening and what citizens should do in reaction. Bottom line: don't touch them. They are not dead. They may thaw out and attack.”
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/05/576082463/what-to-do-if-you-come-across-a-frozen-iguana
NPR
What To Do If You Come Across A Frozen Iguana
On Thursday, we reported iguanas were falling from trees in Florida. Now, we explain why it is happening and what citizens should do in reaction. Bottom line: don't touch them. They are not dead. They may thaw out and attack.
C'è uno che ama i MacBook Pro, ma questa generazione proprio non gli va giù. Non sono d'accordo, anzi secondo me esagera un po'. Però qualche punto ce l'ha.
Money quote: "This £2800 laptop has a distinctly unprofessional keyboard. It’s not a whole lot better than the membrane keyboard on the first computer I owned, the Atari 400 back in 1982. I wouldn’t be surprised if the travel was shorter than that on the rubber keyboard of the ZX Spectrum. I don’t mind the feel, but that’s not good enough for a £2800 laptop. I should adore the keyboard. It doesn’t need much more travel, but it does need it. I don’t expect a Matias Tactile Pro, but I could do with a Magic Keyboard and I’ll take the extra thickness in return for a usable primary input method."
http://shahidkamal.com/macbook-pro-no/
Nel frattempo, io ho comprato il MacBook versione 12 pollici. Ho preso la versione più "carrozzata" due mesi fa ma temo che dovrò cambiare perché mi servono più pollici di schermo. Casomai qualcuno qui è interessato? Eventualmente mandatemi un PM.
Money quote: "This £2800 laptop has a distinctly unprofessional keyboard. It’s not a whole lot better than the membrane keyboard on the first computer I owned, the Atari 400 back in 1982. I wouldn’t be surprised if the travel was shorter than that on the rubber keyboard of the ZX Spectrum. I don’t mind the feel, but that’s not good enough for a £2800 laptop. I should adore the keyboard. It doesn’t need much more travel, but it does need it. I don’t expect a Matias Tactile Pro, but I could do with a Magic Keyboard and I’ll take the extra thickness in return for a usable primary input method."
http://shahidkamal.com/macbook-pro-no/
Nel frattempo, io ho comprato il MacBook versione 12 pollici. Ho preso la versione più "carrozzata" due mesi fa ma temo che dovrò cambiare perché mi servono più pollici di schermo. Casomai qualcuno qui è interessato? Eventualmente mandatemi un PM.
Shahid Kamal
MacBook Pro? No
Let me count the way my latest MacBook Pro is not suitable for professional use, but before I do that, you should know that I’ve been buying and recommending Macs since 2001. I’ve spent a fortune o…
Si parla tanto spesso di cose strane come gli hippie, i guru e le credenze di alcuni gruppi *speciali* di individui, e il modo strano, surreale, inconsapevole (forse) ma sicuramente ingenuo e spiazzante con cui parte della nostra società allargata parla del mondo. Davvero tanto. Ma lo si vede poco in pratica.
L’idea fricchettona che la realtà sia una illusione - percolante dal buddismo e non solo - affascina certamente. Vederne dispiegata in tutta la sua abbagliante e abbacinante bellezza una spiegazione/interpretazione degna del miglior groviera (per il quantitativo di buchi logici innervato nella materia stessa de ragionamento) è però molto più spettacolare.
Capisco come Umberto Eco si perdesse nei racconti dei cospirazionsiti a tal punto da dedicare loro un libro. Qui invece si parla del monaco asiatico che si è dato fuoco davanti all’ambasciata e al fatto che non abbia fatto una piega. Pittoresco, no?
Daje fricchettoni, avanti! Siete tutti noi!
Money quote: “According to Wright, what meditation does as far as we currently know, especially in long-term practitioners like Đức, is that it severs the link between what is happening to us and our habitual reaction to that occurrence.
For someone like Đức, the association of physical pain and his subjective response to it was likely so weakened that even the instinctive reflexes that many of us have to discomfort were under his observable control.
He could feel pain, like the rest of us, but he didn’t impulsively respond to it.“
https://medium.com/personal-growth/reality-is-an-illusion-e03e779408b8
L’idea fricchettona che la realtà sia una illusione - percolante dal buddismo e non solo - affascina certamente. Vederne dispiegata in tutta la sua abbagliante e abbacinante bellezza una spiegazione/interpretazione degna del miglior groviera (per il quantitativo di buchi logici innervato nella materia stessa de ragionamento) è però molto più spettacolare.
Capisco come Umberto Eco si perdesse nei racconti dei cospirazionsiti a tal punto da dedicare loro un libro. Qui invece si parla del monaco asiatico che si è dato fuoco davanti all’ambasciata e al fatto che non abbia fatto una piega. Pittoresco, no?
Daje fricchettoni, avanti! Siete tutti noi!
Money quote: “According to Wright, what meditation does as far as we currently know, especially in long-term practitioners like Đức, is that it severs the link between what is happening to us and our habitual reaction to that occurrence.
For someone like Đức, the association of physical pain and his subjective response to it was likely so weakened that even the instinctive reflexes that many of us have to discomfort were under his observable control.
He could feel pain, like the rest of us, but he didn’t impulsively respond to it.“
https://medium.com/personal-growth/reality-is-an-illusion-e03e779408b8
Medium
Why Reality Is an Illusion
On June 11, 1963, Thích Quảng Đức slowly burned himself to death.
Ok, allora, chiariamoci subito le idee. Chiunque può dire qualsiasi cosa, è il bello della nostra società. Ci sono le cose serie, e poi ci sono le cose leggere di cui ci occupiamo tendenzialmente qui. Tra queste ultime spicca l'intervento di questo tizio che dice: adesso vi spiego come si fa a leggere meglio per diventare più intelligenti. Che, va beh, già il titolo sembra per gente che deve ancora leggere molto, oltre che meglio. Ma non giudichiamo il proverbiale libro dalla copertina. Invece, leggiamo cosa scrive e a quel punto mandiamolo a quel paese senza passare dal Via (così non prende neanche i soldi). Ma si può? Che idiota.
Money quote: "Ruin the Ending. When I start a book, I almost always go straight to Wikipedia (or Amazon or a friend) and ruin the ending. Who cares? Your aim as a reader is to understand WHY something happened, the what is secondary.
You ought to ruin the ending–or find out the basic assertions of the book–because it frees you up to focus on your two most important tasks: What does it mean? Do you agree with it?
The first 50 pages of the book shouldn’t be a discovery process for you; you shouldn’t be wasting your time figuring out what the author is trying to say with the book.
Instead, your energy needs to be spent on figuring out if he’s right and how you can benefit from it. Plus if you already know what happens, you can identify all the foreshadowing and the clues the first read through."
https://medium.com/personal-growth/how-to-digest-books-above-your-level-and-increase-your-intelligence-a11bd134da13
Money quote: "Ruin the Ending. When I start a book, I almost always go straight to Wikipedia (or Amazon or a friend) and ruin the ending. Who cares? Your aim as a reader is to understand WHY something happened, the what is secondary.
You ought to ruin the ending–or find out the basic assertions of the book–because it frees you up to focus on your two most important tasks: What does it mean? Do you agree with it?
The first 50 pages of the book shouldn’t be a discovery process for you; you shouldn’t be wasting your time figuring out what the author is trying to say with the book.
Instead, your energy needs to be spent on figuring out if he’s right and how you can benefit from it. Plus if you already know what happens, you can identify all the foreshadowing and the clues the first read through."
https://medium.com/personal-growth/how-to-digest-books-above-your-level-and-increase-your-intelligence-a11bd134da13
Medium
How To Digest Books Above Your “Level” And Increase Your Intelligence
To do great things, you have to read to lead.
A un certo punto John McPhee andava di moda anche qui da noi. Poi se lo sono dimenticato tutti. Invece, il maestro di un giornalismo faticoso, minuzioso e affascinante - devastato dalle inutili repliche in rete - ha pubblicato un nuovo libro alquanto interessante sulla vita (e le gioie) di chi scrive.
Money quote: “There are only two kinds of writers in the world, according to John McPhee: the overtly insecure and the covertly insecure. His new book, “Draft. No. 4,” a collection of essays on craft, is a sunny tribute to the gloomy side of the writing life: the insecurity, dread, shame, envy, magical thinking, pointless rituals, financial instability, self-hatred — the whole “masochistic self-inflicted paralysis of a writer’s normal routine.” And then the queasy desire to do it all over again”
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/books/review-draft-no-4-john-mcphee.html
Money quote: “There are only two kinds of writers in the world, according to John McPhee: the overtly insecure and the covertly insecure. His new book, “Draft. No. 4,” a collection of essays on craft, is a sunny tribute to the gloomy side of the writing life: the insecurity, dread, shame, envy, magical thinking, pointless rituals, financial instability, self-hatred — the whole “masochistic self-inflicted paralysis of a writer’s normal routine.” And then the queasy desire to do it all over again”
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/books/review-draft-no-4-john-mcphee.html
Nytimes
The Gloom, Doom and Occasional Joy of the Writing Life
“Draft No. 4,” John McPhee’s 32nd book, collects the writing advice of the longtime New Yorker staff writer and Princeton professor.
I soliti ricercatori delle neuroscienze stanno facendo le solite ricerche per "vedere" dove sono i nostri ricordi all'interno del cervello. Perché? Beh, almeno la risposta a questa domanda è interessante.
Money quote: "Chen is among a growing number of researchers using brain imaging to identify the activity patterns involved in creating and recalling a specific memory. Powerful technological innovations in human and animal neuroscience in the past decade are enabling researchers to uncover fundamental rules about how individual memories form, organize and interact with each other. Using techniques for labelling active neurons, for example, teams have located circuits associated with the memory of a painful stimulus in rodents and successfully reactivated those pathways to trigger the memory. And in humans, studies have identified the signatures of particular recollections, which reveal some of the ways that the brain organizes and links memories to aid recollection. Such findings could one day help to reveal why memories fail in old age or disease, or how false memories creep into eyewitness testimony. These insights might also lead to strategies for improved learning and memory."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00107-4
Money quote: "Chen is among a growing number of researchers using brain imaging to identify the activity patterns involved in creating and recalling a specific memory. Powerful technological innovations in human and animal neuroscience in the past decade are enabling researchers to uncover fundamental rules about how individual memories form, organize and interact with each other. Using techniques for labelling active neurons, for example, teams have located circuits associated with the memory of a painful stimulus in rodents and successfully reactivated those pathways to trigger the memory. And in humans, studies have identified the signatures of particular recollections, which reveal some of the ways that the brain organizes and links memories to aid recollection. Such findings could one day help to reveal why memories fail in old age or disease, or how false memories creep into eyewitness testimony. These insights might also lead to strategies for improved learning and memory."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-00107-4
Nature
How to see a memory
Every memory leaves its own imprint in the brain, and researchers are starting to work out what one looks like.
Metti una videocamera ad alta definizione (una Red) sulla pancia di un aereo e fatti un bel volo: questo è quello che viene catturato dal sensore e dall'ottica della Red.
Money quote: "This is a very special project to me that I conceived of and directed for one of my favorite clients who shall remain nameless for now. Over several months of prep and R&D we modified a LearJet and flew above the earth looking straight down at the shear beauty of what Mother Nature has to offer us that we all too often miss from the ground. Shot on RED in 8K."
https://vimeo.com/240106846
Money quote: "This is a very special project to me that I conceived of and directed for one of my favorite clients who shall remain nameless for now. Over several months of prep and R&D we modified a LearJet and flew above the earth looking straight down at the shear beauty of what Mother Nature has to offer us that we all too often miss from the ground. Shot on RED in 8K."
https://vimeo.com/240106846
Vimeo
Aerial Project "33K"
This is a very special project to me that I conceived of and directed for one of my favorite clients who shall remain nameless for now. Over several months of…
Alla fine, ci vuole equilibrio.
Money quote: “True growth and success is always sustainable. It’s not a short sprint with an inevitable physical, mental, and emotional crash. All goals are means, not ends. Each succeeding stage of your progression should clearly build one-upon-another, leaving you stronger and more able, not weaker and permanently damaged”
https://medium.com/personal-growth/6-things-you-need-to-recover-from-every-day-eb80229eda1
Money quote: “True growth and success is always sustainable. It’s not a short sprint with an inevitable physical, mental, and emotional crash. All goals are means, not ends. Each succeeding stage of your progression should clearly build one-upon-another, leaving you stronger and more able, not weaker and permanently damaged”
https://medium.com/personal-growth/6-things-you-need-to-recover-from-every-day-eb80229eda1
Medium
6 Things You Need to Recover From Every Day
Less than 1% of people are living according to the principles/science described herein. However, I’m confident that if you apply these…
Finalmente un po’ di gonzo journalism. Questo reporter cerca di farsi dire se davvero iPhone X è il migliore dei telefoni possibili. Le risposte nei negozi, Apple store inclusi, sono divertenti.
Money quote: “So I made an appointment to change the battery on my iPhone 6.
I was greeted by a slightly surly man who sat me down and told me that if my battery needed replacing, they might not have the parts, so I'd have to come back again.
Still, when the Genius arrived, things picked up. “
https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-x-is-the-best-my-search-to-find-apple-store-staff-who-agree/
Money quote: “So I made an appointment to change the battery on my iPhone 6.
I was greeted by a slightly surly man who sat me down and told me that if my battery needed replacing, they might not have the parts, so I'd have to come back again.
Still, when the Genius arrived, things picked up. “
https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-x-is-the-best-my-search-to-find-apple-store-staff-who-agree/
CNET
Is iPhone X best? Searching for Apple store staff who think so
Commentary: After visiting carrier stores where employees weren't iPhone X fans, it was time to go to Apple stores. It didn't go quite as I'd imagined.