L'archivio degli aeroplanini di carta. C'è anche l'F-18. Non ho parole.

Money quote: "A database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions."

https://www.foldnfly.com/

I razzisti di solito non hanno una grande capacità di astrazione, e questa cosa gli passerà sopra senza che neanche se ne accorgano. Però non esistono le razze. Ovvero, quando c'erano non c'eravamo noi, perché non nasciamo come un singolo gruppo, ma (forse) come meticciato di una molteplicità di gruppi differenti. Insomma, alla faccia della purezza della razza.

Money quote: "The origins of our species have long been traced to east Africa, where the world’s oldest undisputed Homo sapiens fossils were discovered. About 300,000 years ago, the story went, a group of primitive humans there underwent a series of genetic and cultural shifts that set them on a unique evolutionary path that resulted in everyone alive today.

However, a team of prominent scientists is now calling for a rewriting of this traditional narrative, based on a comprehensive survey of fossil, archaeological and genetic evidence. Instead, the international team argue, the distinctive features that make us human emerged mosaic-like across different populations spanning the entire African continent. Only after tens or hundreds of thousands of years of interbreeding and cultural exchange between these semi-isolated groups, did the fully fledged modern human come into being."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jul/11/no-single-birthplace-of-mankind-say-scientists

Nancy Pelosi è sotto attacco perché vecchia. O forse perché donna? Dopotutto, a differenza degli uomini, alle donne non perdoniamo lo scorrere del tempo, cioè il loro “sfiorire” che interpretiamo non solo dal punto di vista estetico (cosa che ha un significato sessuale-riproduttivo piuttosto evidente) ma anche intellettuale ed esistenziale.

Money quote: “This is less crude than the sexism Pelosi has gotten from the GOP, but it is more insidious. Instead of heaping disgust on Pelosi’s aging, female body, Democrats are casting her as a desperate crone, clinging to relevance at any cost. In both cases, her age supposedly explains everything that’s wrong with her.”

https://medium.com/s/story/nancy-pelosi-is-old-good-e7b7d8a4a2fc

I monopattini elettrici sono la nuova bolla? - Il mio commento per Wired

https://www.wired.it/lifestyle/mobilita/2018/11/23/i-monopattini-elettrici-bolla/

Con la USB-C “less is more” e si viaggia più leggeri - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/usb-c-viaggiare-leggeri/

Quando vai a Hong Kong la prima cosa che noti, assieme agli stretti grattacieli, sono le impalcature di bambù. Ovunque. C’è chi ne ha fatto un progetto fotografico ventennale.

Money quote: “One of the first photographs of this distinct, dynamic process is an image created by John Thomson in Hong Kong in 1871. It shows a man climbing up an intricate network of bamboo surrounding a building. The scene, rendered in black and white, reveals the apparent durability of a seemingly delicate support system”

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cocoons-hong-kong-bamboo-scaffolding

Se la scrittura è uno strumento per esplorare il pensiero, oltre che per comunicarlo, le etichette servono ad aggiungere ordine. Forse.

Money quote: “Tags suck. On paper, they look like a great solution to everything. But in practice, they just add an additional burden to any content management system. With tags, content managers do not only have to organize the content and the hierarchy but also the category systems. Writing good content is already hard enough.”

https://ia.net/writer/blog/write-to-organize

Per Brian May, chitarrista dei Queen «Apple è diventata un mostro egoista» https://www.macitynet.it/brian-may-contro-apple/

Lettura per il sabato pomeriggio. Il libro di chi parla L’ Atlantic deve essere fenomenale. Perché aspettare ha senso. Perché il contrario è male. E comunque perché aspettiamo sempre di più e sempre con maggiore sofferenza.

Money quote: “So waiting, within that context, is often understood as wasted time: When someone makes me wait, they’re wasting my most valuable resource, my time, and preventing me from living up to that moral expectation of using time wisely. My book, then, tries to flip that on its head, to look at how waiting can be an antidote to some of these notions of acceleration and productivity that we actually just can’t keep up with”

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/576181/

Patti Smith racconta il libro più rivoluzionario della sua vita: “Piccole donne”

Money quote: “Many wonderful books captured my imagination, but in Little Women something extraordinary happened. I recognized myself, as if in a mirror, the lanky headstrong girl, who raced on foot, ripped her skirts climbing trees, spoke in common slang, and denounced social pretensions. A girl who could be found leaning against a great oak with a book, or at her desk in the attic bowed over a manunoscript. She was Josephine March. Even her name breathed freedom, a girl called Jo.”

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/09/24/a-responsible-freedom-patti-smith-on-little-women/

Certo che tutta quella bella letteratura distopica, migliaia di film e romanzi che mostrano che fine facciano quando cerchiamo di costruire degli incubi del controllo, è veramente passata invano. Forse i manager di questi progetti leggevano solo Topolino, chissà.

Money quote: “Soon enough, we’ll have a smart city: Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is building one “from the internet up,” with help from a series of private-public real-estate partnerships in the downtown Toronto neighborhood Quayside (pronounced Key-side).”

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/575551/

Cresce l’attesa per il finale di Game of Thrones...

iPad con USB-C, si risparmia spazio e si viaggia leggeri - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/usb-c-viaggiare-leggeri/

Tre piccoli segreti per scrivere saggistica migliore.

Money quote: “Write Better Non-Fiction By Asking These Three Magic Questions”

https://medium.com/@augustbirch/write-better-non-fiction-by-asking-three-magic-questions-ec82c6da4f9c

Ebbene sì, anche le donne si eccitano senza bisogno di uno che cominci prima di loro.

Money quote: “And finally, women can just be horny and not know why. Random horniness is, again, a universal experience, and sometimes while sitting in a meeting or falling asleep at night, a woman will realize her entire clitoral situation is throbbing like a neon sign for no clear identifiable reason. She’s just… horny. Just like you.”

https://melmagazine.com/potential-reasons-why-your-girlfriend-is-suddenly-horny-f0312a5eafb2

Abbiamo un problema con l’obesità. Non abbiamo capito come trattarla e stiamo massacrando generazioni di persone grasse una dopo l’altra.

Money quote: “Which brings us to one of the largest gaps between science and practice in our own time. Years from now, we will look back in horror at the counterproductive ways we addressed the obesity epidemic and the barbaric ways we treated fat people—long after we knew there was a better path.”

https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/

Stiamo completamente sbagliando il senso e il modo per cui e con cui si disegna

Money quote: ““We have misfiled the significance of drawing because we see it as a professional skill instead of a personal capacity,” he writes. “This essential confusion has stunted our understanding of drawing and kept it from being seen as a tool for learning above all else.””

https://qz.com/quartzy/1381916/drawing-is-the-best-way-to-learn-even-if-youre-no-leonardo-da-vinci/

Il più autorevole sito al mondo di orologi fa un endorsement veramente commovente all’Apple Watch Series 4

Money quote: “Last week, Apple announced a new generation of Apple Watch and I was fortunate enough to be loaned one for a review. I've spent the last six days wearing the Series 4, putting it through its paces. I've been checking out all those new, supposedly life-changing features that were exuberantly spoken about during Apple's keynote presentation at the perfectly-appointed Steve Jobs Theater. I've been exploring the updated operating system, watchOS 5, to see how the Apple Watch is changing at the platform level. I've been thinking a lot about Apple's long-term vision for the Apple Watch and how it's starting to come into clearer focus. And, finally, I've been thinking about how the Apple Watch Series 4 stands up as a product on its own merits and whether or not I think you should open up your Macbook, launch Safari, and pre-order one right now.“

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/apple-watch-series-4-review

Se anziché leggere cose come questa leggeste libri, leggereste un botto. Basta che poi però non mi leggete solo romanzi fantasy e rosa...

Money quote: “In January of 2015, I found Buffett’s quote. I decided to read. I was going to read and read and read and never stop until I got some damn answers.

I didn’t quite make 500 pages a day, but, in these last two years, I’ve read over 400 books cover to cover. That decision to start reading was one of the most important decisions in my life”

https://qz.com/895101/in-the-time-you-spend-on-social-media-each-year-you-could-read-200-books/

Amazon entra nel business dei satelliti artificiali - il mio articolo per Il Sole 24 ORE

https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/tecnologie/2018-11-28/amazon-entra-business-satelliti-artificiali--100153.shtml?uuid=AEIN5moG