Il cambiamento cos’è? Cosa è davvero rilevante? Perché cambiamo tutti, a partire da quando siamo ragazzi e cresciamo (“Non ti riconosco più”, dicono gli amici che ritrovano dopo anni l’amico con delle caratteristiche inedite e spesso negative) oppure quando prendiamo una bella botta in testa e in un attimo diventiamo un’altra persona. Ma, questa è la domanda: a parte l’intensità del cambiamento, quanto il tipo di altra persona gioca nel processo? Cioè, quanto è importante la direzione oltre alla forza del cambiamento? Cambiare “in meglio” e cambiare “in peggio” sono percepiti alla stessa maniera? Un bell’articolo di filosofia dell’identità.
Money quote: “Further evidence that direction of change affects identity can be seen in popular examples. Take, for example, ‘The Enemy Within’ (1968), an episode of the original Star Trek television series. A transporter malfunction splits the ship’s Captain Kirk into two people, one with the properties of his negative side, the other with the properties of his positive side. Positive-Kirk and Negative-Kirk are both dissimilar from the original captain, yet the ship’s crew refers to Positive-Kirk as Captain Kirk and Negative-Kirk as the impostor. Improved Positive-Kirk is taken as identical and deteriorated Negative-Kirk as non-identical to the original.”
https://aeon.co/essays/how-a-change-for-the-worse-makes-for-a-different-person
Money quote: “Further evidence that direction of change affects identity can be seen in popular examples. Take, for example, ‘The Enemy Within’ (1968), an episode of the original Star Trek television series. A transporter malfunction splits the ship’s Captain Kirk into two people, one with the properties of his negative side, the other with the properties of his positive side. Positive-Kirk and Negative-Kirk are both dissimilar from the original captain, yet the ship’s crew refers to Positive-Kirk as Captain Kirk and Negative-Kirk as the impostor. Improved Positive-Kirk is taken as identical and deteriorated Negative-Kirk as non-identical to the original.”
https://aeon.co/essays/how-a-change-for-the-worse-makes-for-a-different-person
Aeon
The Phineas Gage effect
When someone changes for the worse, we see a totally different person. But what happens if the change is for the better?
Roger Federer è tornato in testa alla classifica ATP ad un’età, 36 anni, semplicemente fantascientifica. È come se fosse andato a giocare con la generazione di tennisti dopo la sua. Secondo me però questo è il momento di rileggere uno degli articoli-fiume più belli scritti da David Foster Wallace per il New York Times, tradotto da noi come Tennis e Trigonometria. Un capolavoro di long form journalism che mi fa sentire ancora di più la mancanza dello scrittore americano. Lettura domenicale perfetta.
Money quote: “The Moments are more intense if you’ve played enough tennis to understand the impossibility of what you just saw him do. We’ve all got our examples. Here is one. It’s the finals of the 2005 U.S. Open, Federer serving to Andre Agassi early in the fourth set. There’s a medium-long exchange of groundstrokes, one with the distinctive butterfly shape of today’s power-baseline game, Federer and Agassi yanking each other from side to side, each trying to set up the baseline winner...until suddenly Agassi hits a hard heavy cross-court backhand that pulls Federer way out wide to his ad (=left) side, and Federer gets to it but slices the stretch backhand short, a couple feet past the service line, which of course is the sort of thing Agassi dines out on, and as Federer’s scrambling to reverse and get back to center, Agassi’s moving in to take the short ball on the rise, and he smacks it hard right back into the same ad corner, trying to wrong-foot Federer, which in fact he does — Federer’s still near the corner but running toward the centerline, and the ball’s heading to a point behind him now, where he just was, and there’s no time to turn his body around, and Agassi’s following the shot in to the net at an angle from the backhand side...and what Federer now does is somehow instantly reverse thrust and sort of skip backward three or four steps, impossibly fast, to hit a forehand out of his backhand corner, all his weight moving backward, and the forehand is a topspin screamer down the line past Agassi at net, who lunges for it but the ball’s past him, and it flies straight down the sideline and lands exactly in the deuce corner of Agassi’s side, a winner — Federer’s still dancing backward as it lands. And there’s that familiar little second of shocked silence from the New York crowd before it erupts, and John McEnroe with his color man’s headset on TV says (mostly to himself, it sounds like), “How do you hit a winner from that position?” And he’s right: given Agassi’s position and world-class quickness, Federer had to send that ball down a two-inch pipe of space in order to pass him, which he did, moving backwards, with no setup time and none of his weight behind the shot. It was impossible. It was like something out of “The Matrix.” I don’t know what-all sounds were involved, but my spouse says she hurried in and there was popcorn all over the couch and I was down on one knee and my eyeballs looked like novelty-shop eyeballs.
Anyway, that’s one example of a Federer Moment, and that was merely on TV — and the truth is that TV tennis is to live tennis pretty much as video porn is to the felt reality of human love.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html
Money quote: “The Moments are more intense if you’ve played enough tennis to understand the impossibility of what you just saw him do. We’ve all got our examples. Here is one. It’s the finals of the 2005 U.S. Open, Federer serving to Andre Agassi early in the fourth set. There’s a medium-long exchange of groundstrokes, one with the distinctive butterfly shape of today’s power-baseline game, Federer and Agassi yanking each other from side to side, each trying to set up the baseline winner...until suddenly Agassi hits a hard heavy cross-court backhand that pulls Federer way out wide to his ad (=left) side, and Federer gets to it but slices the stretch backhand short, a couple feet past the service line, which of course is the sort of thing Agassi dines out on, and as Federer’s scrambling to reverse and get back to center, Agassi’s moving in to take the short ball on the rise, and he smacks it hard right back into the same ad corner, trying to wrong-foot Federer, which in fact he does — Federer’s still near the corner but running toward the centerline, and the ball’s heading to a point behind him now, where he just was, and there’s no time to turn his body around, and Agassi’s following the shot in to the net at an angle from the backhand side...and what Federer now does is somehow instantly reverse thrust and sort of skip backward three or four steps, impossibly fast, to hit a forehand out of his backhand corner, all his weight moving backward, and the forehand is a topspin screamer down the line past Agassi at net, who lunges for it but the ball’s past him, and it flies straight down the sideline and lands exactly in the deuce corner of Agassi’s side, a winner — Federer’s still dancing backward as it lands. And there’s that familiar little second of shocked silence from the New York crowd before it erupts, and John McEnroe with his color man’s headset on TV says (mostly to himself, it sounds like), “How do you hit a winner from that position?” And he’s right: given Agassi’s position and world-class quickness, Federer had to send that ball down a two-inch pipe of space in order to pass him, which he did, moving backwards, with no setup time and none of his weight behind the shot. It was impossible. It was like something out of “The Matrix.” I don’t know what-all sounds were involved, but my spouse says she hurried in and there was popcorn all over the couch and I was down on one knee and my eyeballs looked like novelty-shop eyeballs.
Anyway, that’s one example of a Federer Moment, and that was merely on TV — and the truth is that TV tennis is to live tennis pretty much as video porn is to the felt reality of human love.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html
NY Times
Roger Federer as Religious Experience (Published 2006)
How one player’s grace, speed, power, precision, kinesthetic virtuosity, and seriously wicked topspin are transfiguring men’s tennis.
Non so se aiuta a imparare a scrivere codice, però questo articolo un paio di cose su come si studia da soli le insegna
Money quote: “Everyone is different, and not everyone absorbs information the same way as the other. Yes, captain Obvious, but it’s not as obvious as it might seem. Before you start learning how to code, you need to learn how to learn.”
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/successfully-teaching-yourself-how-to-code-f6aac23db44a
Money quote: “Everyone is different, and not everyone absorbs information the same way as the other. Yes, captain Obvious, but it’s not as obvious as it might seem. Before you start learning how to code, you need to learn how to learn.”
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/successfully-teaching-yourself-how-to-code-f6aac23db44a
freeCodeCamp.org
How To Successfully Teach Yourself How To Code
by Lydia Hallie
How To Successfully Teach Yourself How To Code
After I published my previous article
[https://medium.com/@lydiahallie/advice-from-a-19-y-o-girl-software-developer-88737bcc6be5]
about how I became a 19-year-old software developer, hundreds…
How To Successfully Teach Yourself How To Code
After I published my previous article
[https://medium.com/@lydiahallie/advice-from-a-19-y-o-girl-software-developer-88737bcc6be5]
about how I became a 19-year-old software developer, hundreds…
Eric Lundgren è un imprenditore green ossessionato dall’idea dei rifiuti elettronici (che ricicla) e dall’abbattimento dei tempi di obsolescenza programmata. Microsoft lo sta mandando in galera.
Money quote: “Lundgren said he thought electronics companies wanted the reuse of computers to be difficult so that consumers would buy new ones. “I started learning what planned obsolescence was,” he said, “and I realized companies make laptops that only lasted as long as the insurance would last. It infuriated me. That’s not what a healthy society should have.”
He thought that producing and selling restore discs to computer refurbishers — saving them the hassle of downloading the software and burning new discs — would encourage more users to restore their computers instead of discarding them. In his view, the new owners were ennoscriptd to the software, and this just made it easier.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/true-crime/wp/2018/02/15/eric-lundgren-e-waste-recycling-innovator-faces-prison-for-trying-to-extend-lifespan-of-pcs/
Money quote: “Lundgren said he thought electronics companies wanted the reuse of computers to be difficult so that consumers would buy new ones. “I started learning what planned obsolescence was,” he said, “and I realized companies make laptops that only lasted as long as the insurance would last. It infuriated me. That’s not what a healthy society should have.”
He thought that producing and selling restore discs to computer refurbishers — saving them the hassle of downloading the software and burning new discs — would encourage more users to restore their computers instead of discarding them. In his view, the new owners were ennoscriptd to the software, and this just made it easier.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/true-crime/wp/2018/02/15/eric-lundgren-e-waste-recycling-innovator-faces-prison-for-trying-to-extend-lifespan-of-pcs/
Washington Post
Eric Lundgren, ‘e-waste’ recycling innovator, faces prison for trying to extend life span of PCs
Lundgren wanted to provide buyers of used computers a restore disc of Windows, so they wouldn't throw their computers away. Microsoft, and the government, objected.
The American Mall Game: Bloomberg ha fatto il giochino online in Html5 che spacca di brutto (se siete amanti dei mall)
Money quote: “A 2018 Retail Challenge”
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/american-mall-game/
Money quote: “A 2018 Retail Challenge”
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/american-mall-game/
Bloomberg
Do you have what it takes to run a profitable mall? Play our new game to find out
A 2018 retail gaming challenge
L’arma segreta dell’internet sicura è psichedelica - il mio articolo per la Stampa
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/02/19/tecnologia/idee/larma-segreta-dellinternet-sicura-psichedelica-EihmlqSXx9AL1laSnVCHQN/amphtml/pagina.amp.html
http://www.lastampa.it/2018/02/19/tecnologia/idee/larma-segreta-dellinternet-sicura-psichedelica-EihmlqSXx9AL1laSnVCHQN/amphtml/pagina.amp.html
LaStampa.it
L’arma segreta dell’internet sicura è psichedelica
Con un muro di Lava Lamp vengono create sequenze di numeri imprevedibili che permettono di crittografare i dati che viaggiano in rete senza rischi
È un articolo al quale tengo particolarmente: si intitola "Tex e la fantascienza", l'ho scritto come al solito per Fumettologica e salda un debito più che quarantennale che ho con il ranger texano. Buona lettura.
Money quote: "Sappiamo che in questa colonna metafisica e digitale, Science Friction, si parla di fantascienza, argomento che dovrebbe essere off-limits per i protagonisti del Vecchio West a fumetti. Invece, a sorpresa per alcuni, il buon Tex entra in questo spazio dalla porta principale, anche se vedremo tra poco in che modo.
Perché la creatura di Gianluigi Bonelli e Aurelio Galeppini con il visto e il portamento di Gary Cooper e la pistola alquanto facile non ha combattuto solo con ladri, rapinatori, traditori, indiani rinnegati, assassini, streghe, stregoni, lupi mannari e altre creature spaventose più o meno fantastiche, con le quali peraltro ha regolato i conti in maniera molto democratica: a suon di pugni, pistolettate, fucilate o candelotti di dinamite, a seconda della bisogna. No, nelle avventure del ranger texano c’è anche un tocco di fantascienza, un assaggio di “alieno” che nel tempo ha costruito una specie di tessitura coerente e piacevolmente demodé.
Soprattutto con tre episodi canonici del rapporto tra Tex Willer e gli alieni (ce ne sono anche altri, più un mix di storie un po’ fantastiche e un po’ fantascientifiche, come ad esempio i ricci assassini piovuti dallo spazio con Il fiore della morte, del 1974)."
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/02/fantascienza-tex-fumetto-bonelli/
Money quote: "Sappiamo che in questa colonna metafisica e digitale, Science Friction, si parla di fantascienza, argomento che dovrebbe essere off-limits per i protagonisti del Vecchio West a fumetti. Invece, a sorpresa per alcuni, il buon Tex entra in questo spazio dalla porta principale, anche se vedremo tra poco in che modo.
Perché la creatura di Gianluigi Bonelli e Aurelio Galeppini con il visto e il portamento di Gary Cooper e la pistola alquanto facile non ha combattuto solo con ladri, rapinatori, traditori, indiani rinnegati, assassini, streghe, stregoni, lupi mannari e altre creature spaventose più o meno fantastiche, con le quali peraltro ha regolato i conti in maniera molto democratica: a suon di pugni, pistolettate, fucilate o candelotti di dinamite, a seconda della bisogna. No, nelle avventure del ranger texano c’è anche un tocco di fantascienza, un assaggio di “alieno” che nel tempo ha costruito una specie di tessitura coerente e piacevolmente demodé.
Soprattutto con tre episodi canonici del rapporto tra Tex Willer e gli alieni (ce ne sono anche altri, più un mix di storie un po’ fantastiche e un po’ fantascientifiche, come ad esempio i ricci assassini piovuti dallo spazio con Il fiore della morte, del 1974)."
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/02/fantascienza-tex-fumetto-bonelli/
Fumettologica
Tex e la fantascienza
In Tex c'è anche un tocco di fantascienza, un assaggio di "alieno" che nel tempo ha costruito una specie di tessitura coerente e piacevolmente demodé.
Adoro i videogiochi e li considero una forma d’arte e di espressione alla pari -e a volte superiori- delle altre più canoniche e tradizionali. Questo salto nel passato della console che ho amato di più, il mio meraviglioso Dreamcast della Sega, è da lucciconi. Imperdibile la gallery con 22 giochi (quasi) tutti fenomenali.
http://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/mastergame/extra/dreamcast-l-ultimo-passo-di-sega-nel-mondo-delle-console_3123459-201802a.shtml
http://www.tgcom24.mediaset.it/mastergame/extra/dreamcast-l-ultimo-passo-di-sega-nel-mondo-delle-console_3123459-201802a.shtml
Tgcom24
Dreamcast: l'ultimo passo di SEGA nel mondo delle console - Tgcom24
Una macchina straordinaria, capace di andare online ben prima che fosse uno standard e con una grafica semplicemente fuori parametro. Scopriamo tutti i giochi più belli dell'ultima console SEGA
Un po’ di foto scattate da un amante del jazz nella San Francisco degli anni ‘40 e ’50.
Money quote: “Speaking by phone from his home in the city’s Cow Hollow neighborhood, Lyon explained his career as the result of a “series of miraculous accidents” that included being in the right place at the right time.”
https://medium.californiasun.co/san-francisco-noir-fred-lyon-d945cd7ec94
Money quote: “Speaking by phone from his home in the city’s Cow Hollow neighborhood, Lyon explained his career as the result of a “series of miraculous accidents” that included being in the right place at the right time.”
https://medium.californiasun.co/san-francisco-noir-fred-lyon-d945cd7ec94
The California Sun
23 images of San Francisco in the jazz-loving 1940s and ’50s
The San Francisco photographer Fred Lyon has been chronicling the City by the Bay since the Depression era.
Google vuole un WordPress più veloce - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/google-vuole-un-wordpress-piu-veloce/
https://www.macitynet.it/google-vuole-un-wordpress-piu-veloce/
Macitynet.it
Google vuole un WordPress più veloce - Macitynet.it
Il motore di ricerca assume ingegneri e investe in sviluppo per aiutare WordPress a diventare più efficiente. Ancora una volta Mountain View segue la sua strategia per plasmare Internet
Nel caso siate curiosi di sapere cosa succede quando si tira la corda dello scivolo di emergenza di un aereo di linea, ecco, non siatelo più
https://twitter.com/AeroDork/status/964188806386663424
https://twitter.com/AeroDork/status/964188806386663424
X (formerly Twitter)
AeroDork (@AeroDork) on X
Ever wonder what happens when you yank the pull cord on an aircraft emergency slide?
Wonder no more.
Wonder no more.
Chi è che sta veramente mandando i tweet di Donald Trump? Quando è veramente lui e quando sono i suoi assistenti? Un ricercatore cerca di capirlo usando un’analisi sofisticata dei metadati oltre che dei dati. Ma la realtà è che potrebbe essere una prova di suoi comportamenti legalmente scorretti.
Money quote: “This was quite controversial because on February 14th of that year, the day after Flynn resigned, Trump had asked James Comey, then the director of the FBI, to back off any investigations of Flynn. If Trump knew at the time of his request to Comey that Flynn had indeed lied to the FBI, then Trump’s tweet could be seen as evidence that Trump attempted to obstruct justice. After several legal experts argued this point, Trump defended himself by claiming that his lawyer John Dowd wrote and posted the tweet. But did he really?”
https://towardsdatascience.com/whos-tweeting-from-the-oval-office-96ea5b60c03
Money quote: “This was quite controversial because on February 14th of that year, the day after Flynn resigned, Trump had asked James Comey, then the director of the FBI, to back off any investigations of Flynn. If Trump knew at the time of his request to Comey that Flynn had indeed lied to the FBI, then Trump’s tweet could be seen as evidence that Trump attempted to obstruct justice. After several legal experts argued this point, Trump defended himself by claiming that his lawyer John Dowd wrote and posted the tweet. But did he really?”
https://towardsdatascience.com/whos-tweeting-from-the-oval-office-96ea5b60c03
Medium
Who’s Tweeting from the Oval Office?
How I built a machine learning model to predict if Trump or if one of his aides has tweeted through his account
Cloudflare utilizza un muro di Lavalamp (quelle lampade anni Settanta con dentro una sostanza "bulbosa" che nuota nel suo liquido illuminato, e produce effetti piacevolmente psichedelici) per generare le sequenze di numeri casuali utilizzati come semi per la crittografia, che poi è la base dell'infrastruttura sicura della rete. Anni fa, ma davvero tanti, avevo scritto un articolo che raccontava questa storia. Che divertente ritrovare la stessa storia dieci-quindici anni dopo. È non-fiction, dopotutto, e questo vuol dire che non inventiamo niente.
Money quote: "Why use lava lamps for encryption instead of computer-generated code? Since computer codes are created by machines with relatively predictable patterns, it is entirely possible for hackers to guess their algorithms, posing a security risk. Lava lamps, on the other hand, add to the equation the sheer randomness of the physical world, making it nearly impossible for hackers to break through."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/encryption-lava-lamps
Money quote: "Why use lava lamps for encryption instead of computer-generated code? Since computer codes are created by machines with relatively predictable patterns, it is entirely possible for hackers to guess their algorithms, posing a security risk. Lava lamps, on the other hand, add to the equation the sheer randomness of the physical world, making it nearly impossible for hackers to break through."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/encryption-lava-lamps
Atlas Obscura
This Wall of Lava Lamps Helps Encrypt the Internet
There couldn’t be a groovier way to keep the web secure.
Donald Trump sceglie WordPress per la Casa Bianca - il mio articolo per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/trump-sceglie-wordpress-la-casa-bianca/
https://www.macitynet.it/trump-sceglie-wordpress-la-casa-bianca/
Macitynet.it
Donald Trump sceglie WordPress per la Casa Bianca - Macitynet.it
Cambia il CMS più famoso d’America: via a Drupal voluto da Obama per risparmiare tre milioni all’anno
Mini-prova della nuova Fujifilm X-H1 - il mio test scritto per Macity
https://www.macitynet.it/mini-prova-della-nuova-fujifilm-x-h1/
https://www.macitynet.it/mini-prova-della-nuova-fujifilm-x-h1/
Macitynet.it
Mini-prova della nuova Fujifilm X-H1 - Macitynet.it
Abbiamo passato un giorno e mezzo a Lisbona con la nuova ammiraglia X-Trans. Fuji fa sul serio con il video ma il vero punto di forza è la fotografia a mano libera
Prima del 2008 in ogni viaggio che facevo negli Stati Uniti - e ne ho fatti molti - andavo per librerie e trovavo un sacco di libri strani, particolari, unici, e al tempo stesso mainstream. Adesso quell’epoca è andata e le cose si trovano (male) su Amazon o digitalizzate qua e là. Pian piano però un po’ di immagini riemergono anche nel mondo totalmente digitale. Meno male.
Qui un esempio di 18 immagini piuttosto rare della California prese da un appassionato fra il 1905 e il 1930.
Money quote: “Along the way they captured images both personal and historic. In one picture, William McCarthy is seen feeding a bear in Yosemite. Others include glimpses of San Francisco before and after the city was devastated by the 1906 earthquake and fires.”
https://medium.californiasun.co/mccarthy-photo-collection-california-96b84c511d5a
Qui un esempio di 18 immagini piuttosto rare della California prese da un appassionato fra il 1905 e il 1930.
Money quote: “Along the way they captured images both personal and historic. In one picture, William McCarthy is seen feeding a bear in Yosemite. Others include glimpses of San Francisco before and after the city was devastated by the 1906 earthquake and fires.”
https://medium.californiasun.co/mccarthy-photo-collection-california-96b84c511d5a
The California Sun
18 rare images of a bygone California
A San Francisco couple took photos all over California during the first half of the 20th century.
Come si riorganizza Urania. Intervista a Giuseppe Lippi
Se volete leggere qualcosa che vi dica dove sta andando la fantascienza in Italia, dovreste leggere la mia intervista a Giuseppe Lippi. C'è anche il mini-scoop (casuale, come sempre), perché da gennaio diventa l'ex curatore di Urania, e collabora assieme ad altre tre figure interne di Mondadori per fa andare avanti la collana
Money quote: ""Il successo dei film e serie TV non si riflette che in minima parte sulla sf letteraria, ma la tecnologia c’entra solo indirettamente. La società dei mega-trend ci vuole sempre più passivi, questa è la realtà. Sempre più consumatori di gadget e quindi meno colti, meno educati in senso umanistico. Ora, la lettura non può prescindere da un minimo di ecletticità nella formazione.""
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/02/intervista-giuseppe-lippi-urania/
Se volete leggere qualcosa che vi dica dove sta andando la fantascienza in Italia, dovreste leggere la mia intervista a Giuseppe Lippi. C'è anche il mini-scoop (casuale, come sempre), perché da gennaio diventa l'ex curatore di Urania, e collabora assieme ad altre tre figure interne di Mondadori per fa andare avanti la collana
Money quote: ""Il successo dei film e serie TV non si riflette che in minima parte sulla sf letteraria, ma la tecnologia c’entra solo indirettamente. La società dei mega-trend ci vuole sempre più passivi, questa è la realtà. Sempre più consumatori di gadget e quindi meno colti, meno educati in senso umanistico. Ora, la lettura non può prescindere da un minimo di ecletticità nella formazione.""
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/02/intervista-giuseppe-lippi-urania/
Fumettologica
Come si riorganizza Urania. Intervista a Giuseppe Lippi
Giusseppe Lippi non è più il curatore editoriale di Urania, ma cambia ruolo diventando "consulente". In un'intervista racconta le novità della collana.
L'altro giorno avevo segnalato una delle cose più belle di David Foster Wallace, "Roger Federer come esperienza religiosa". Ma la prima cosa che ho letto dell'autore americano è stata in realtà "Considera l'aragosta", il libro che prende il nome da questo lungo e drammatico articolo-saggio pubblicato dalla rivista "Gourmet" nell'agosto del 2004. non so se poi mangerete ancora le aragoste. È un pdf, tenetelo da parte per il fine settimana o per quando avete un po' di tempo: in inglese vale il doppio.
Money quote: "For practical purposes, everyone knows what a lobster is. As usual, though, there’s much more to know than most of us care about—it’s all a matter of what your interests are. Taxonomically speaking, a lobster is a marine crustacean of the family Homaridae, characterized by five pairs of jointed legs, the first pair terminating in large pincerish claws used for subduing prey. Like many other species of benthic carnivore, lobsters are both hunters and scavengers. They have stalked eyes, gills on their legs, and antennae. There are dozens of different kinds worldwide, of which the relevant species here is the Maine lobster, Homarus americanus. The name “lobster” comes from the Old English loppestre, which is thought to be a corrupt form of the Latin word for locust combined with the Old English loppe, which meant spider."
http://theessayexperiencefall2013.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2013/11/Consider-the-Lobster_david-foster-wallace.pdf
Money quote: "For practical purposes, everyone knows what a lobster is. As usual, though, there’s much more to know than most of us care about—it’s all a matter of what your interests are. Taxonomically speaking, a lobster is a marine crustacean of the family Homaridae, characterized by five pairs of jointed legs, the first pair terminating in large pincerish claws used for subduing prey. Like many other species of benthic carnivore, lobsters are both hunters and scavengers. They have stalked eyes, gills on their legs, and antennae. There are dozens of different kinds worldwide, of which the relevant species here is the Maine lobster, Homarus americanus. The name “lobster” comes from the Old English loppestre, which is thought to be a corrupt form of the Latin word for locust combined with the Old English loppe, which meant spider."
http://theessayexperiencefall2013.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2013/11/Consider-the-Lobster_david-foster-wallace.pdf
Le differenze nei motivi per cui le due metà scelgono il partner in una coppia eterosessuale stanno assottigliandosi. Un tempo si riteneva che i maschi scegliessero le femmine per la bellezza (cioè l'aspetto fisico, con riferimento indiretto alla fertilità) mentre le femmine scegliessero i maschi per la capacità di provvedere (binomio ricchezza/forza pensato per fornire supporto nel secondo periodo della gravidanza e nei primi mesi dalla nascita della prole). Adesso, studi recenti mostrano che non è più così e che i criteri a quanto pare non sono biologici in senso deterministico ma costrutti sociali. E che alla fine i maschi e le femmine si scelgono per gli stessi motivi. Oppure, si potrebbe anche ipotizzare, sono invece i motivi convergenti di scelta ad essere dei costrutti sociali. Chissà.
Money quote: "The results from the research are clear: mating preferences among men and women look increasingly similar. The trend is directly tied to increasing gender equality, as women gain greater access to resources and opportunities in business, politics, and education. In more gender-unequal nations, such as Turkey, women rate the earning potential of partners as twice as important compared with women in the most gender-equal nations, such as Finland. As with Josh and Mia, Finnish men are now more likely than Finnish women to select partners based on their high level of education."
https://quartzy.qz.com/1171584/dating-preferences-among-men-and-women-are-looking-increasingly-similar/
Money quote: "The results from the research are clear: mating preferences among men and women look increasingly similar. The trend is directly tied to increasing gender equality, as women gain greater access to resources and opportunities in business, politics, and education. In more gender-unequal nations, such as Turkey, women rate the earning potential of partners as twice as important compared with women in the most gender-equal nations, such as Finland. As with Josh and Mia, Finnish men are now more likely than Finnish women to select partners based on their high level of education."
https://quartzy.qz.com/1171584/dating-preferences-among-men-and-women-are-looking-increasingly-similar/
Quartzy
Dating preferences among men and women are looking increasingly similar
Increasing gender equality is throwing everything we thought we knew about sexual attraction out of the window.
Creature molto, molto confuse sull'alimentazione e l'idea di "vita sana"
Money quote: "The truth, of which I am not proud, is that until then I’d not given animal welfare more than a passing thought in my life. I loved meat. In as much as I’d ever paid attention to veganism, in my mind it was a bit precious and a massive palaver. The obvious question would therefore be: couldn’t I just eat healthily without becoming a vegan? Why not simply listen to my body, and eat what it asks for? I can see that for lots of people – maybe most – this would be the sensible solution. In my case, however, it is a terrible idea, the message I consistently get from my body is that a great breakfast menu plan would be two Mars bars and a Cadbury’s finger of fudge."
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jan/06/ice-baths-vegan-diet-year-living-healthily
Money quote: "The truth, of which I am not proud, is that until then I’d not given animal welfare more than a passing thought in my life. I loved meat. In as much as I’d ever paid attention to veganism, in my mind it was a bit precious and a massive palaver. The obvious question would therefore be: couldn’t I just eat healthily without becoming a vegan? Why not simply listen to my body, and eat what it asks for? I can see that for lots of people – maybe most – this would be the sensible solution. In my case, however, it is a terrible idea, the message I consistently get from my body is that a great breakfast menu plan would be two Mars bars and a Cadbury’s finger of fudge."
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jan/06/ice-baths-vegan-diet-year-living-healthily
the Guardian
5am ice baths and a strict vegan diet: my year of living (very) healthily
This time last year, I was overweight, out of shape and run down. Could I turn my life around?
Forwarded from Fumettologica
Una storia incalzante e commovente, epica ma anche lirica, dal pennello di uno dei più grandi mangaka contemporanei.
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/02/billy-bat-naoki-urasawa-manga/
http://www.fumettologica.it/2018/02/billy-bat-naoki-urasawa-manga/
Fumettologica
Billy Bat di Naoki Urasawa, ovvero il potere dei fumetti
Billy Bat di Naoki Urasawa è un manga che celebra il potere dei fumetti, che non solo sono fonte di intrattenimento, ma anche veicolo di valori.