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Storie e pensieri suoi e di altri, raccolti da Antonio Dini http://www.antoniodini.com
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I due minuti perfetti di una televisione che oggi non esiste più ("Baaaat-maaaaaan")

Tra l'altro, Adam West era meraviglioso. Quanto ho odiato quel Batman da bambino...

https://twitter.com/YUXLOA/status/1089758887954317312
E così, alla fine, i Neanderthal erano più smart di quel che non pensavamo

Money quote: "Archaeologists from University College London (UCL) have demonstrated that the 300,000-year-old “Schöningen spears”—the oldest preserved hunting weapons ever found in Europe—could have been used to hunt prey from a distance, and not only at close range. When the spears were excavated between 1994 and 1999, in a lignite mine in Schöningen, Germany, they helped to “really push away” the perception that Neanderthals were scavengers instead of hunters, says Annemieke Milks, the lead author of the new study. "

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/neanderthals-had-advanced-hunting-technology
Un progetto fotografico divertente: giustapporre le case di uptown e downtown, nord e sud Chicago, ricchi e poveri. Avvicinare i contrasti per farli emergere. Nell'America che si sta dividendo con un muro, è solo l'inizio.

Money quote: "Economic growth during the 19th and 20th centuries helped Chicago become a leader in industry, education, and cultural institutions. But racial and class segregation made it difficult for the city’s growing African-American and immigrant populations to access these resources. More than half a million African Americans came to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, forming a South Side “Black Belt” while immigrants from Eastern Europe, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and other areas built their own communities."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chicago-folded-map-project
Nuovo pippone multimediale sulle fake news. Stanno diventando talmente bravi a fare servizi giornalistici mezzo video mezzo animato e mezzo scritti che non sono neanche più divertenti da vedere.

Money quote: "Advances in artificial intelligence could soon make creating convincing fake audio and video – known as “deepfakes” – relatively easy. Making a person appear to say or do something they did not has the potential to take the war of disinformation to a whole new level. Scroll down for more on deepfakes and what the US government is doing to combat them."

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/01/business/pentagons-race-against-deepfakes
Alla fine, se posso permettermi di avere una opinione sull’uscita della Ahrendts da Apple, penso che, dopo cinque anni e con più di 200 milioni di dollari di guadagni, a 58 anni abbia deciso che era arrivato il momento di vivere la sua vita con la sua famiglia o comunque tornando ad essere padrona del suo tempo. Il che vorrebbe dire che non è una tossica del lavoro ma che ha una esistenza oltre all’ufficio. Se davvero è così, mi piace molto.
Ho la vaga sensazione che questo libro scritto dall’informatico e saggista Cal Newport, intitolato “Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes”, sia giornalisticamente sensato ma contenutisticamente poca roba. L’uscita super-promozionale su GQ ne è quasi una prova del nove.

Money quote: “The theory is that with thirty days of abstinence, you’ll be able to figure out when tech stops being useful and starts being problematic. With that extra time, you’ll not only re-discover the meaningful leisure activities you left behind when scrolling through Instagram became a national pastime; you'll also get a better sense of the values and goals that matter to you. Then, you can intentionally add back the digital tools that’ll enhance, rather than distract from, the things you want. (For instance, maybe Facebook is the most effective way to keep in touch with far-off family, or Twitter is the best, most up-to-the-moment source of news—but you should at least press pause long enough to reevaluate if that’s true.)”

https://www.gq.com/story/cal-newport-digital-minimalism
Inquinamento. Un thread interessante su Twitter. Partendo da un grafico le possibili interpretazioni e appropriazioni simboliche. L’inquinamento è una battaglia esistenziale

https://twitter.com/noahpinion/status/1094130445313138689?s=21
Antico Egitto. Gli occhi delle statue. Lo scriba ubriaco. Che storia fantastica

Money quote: “You may be thinking- So what if he’s drunk? Further proof he’s a scribe!”

https://medium.com/the-philosophers-stone/the-statues-in-egypt-used-to-have-eyeballs-5ff7275afa3d
Una delle attività ricreative meno costose della storia, se praticate correttamente, sta passando di moda tra i giovani. O tempora o mores.

Money quote: “To the relief of many parents, educators, and clergy members who care about the health and well-being of young people, teens are launching their sex lives later. From 1991 to 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey finds, the percentage of high-school students who’d had intercourse dropped from 54 to 40 percent. In other words, in the space of a generation, sex has gone from something most high-school students have experienced to something most haven’t. (And no, they aren’t having oral sex instead—that rate hasn’t changed much.)”

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/573949/
Quel mistero buffo del pelo pubico. Cioé: cos’è e a cosa serve? E soprattutto, toglierlo fa male?

Money quote: “It’s that last part that’s key — removing pubic hair can cause abrasions, irritation, and even infection, but it’s the removal itself that does it, says Dr. Jen Gunter, an OB/GYN and author of the upcoming book ‘The Vagina Bible’. “There are a lot of studies that talk about the trauma of pubic hair removal,” she says. “We see burns from hot wax, we see injuries from razors, abscesses, things like that. There definitely are a fair number of visits to the emergency department every year, and also to the gynecologist’s office, related to the actual injuries from pubic hair removal.” But again — it’s not being without pubic hair that’s risky, but the removal itself.”

https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/why-do-we-have-pubic-hair.html