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Yesterday we took the Shinkansen fron Tōkyō to Nagoya, a city I’ve never been to before. Clara had been for a brief stopover, but hadn’t seen much of it beyond its port. Much of yesterday’s post may have been spent extolling the virtues of high-speed trains before I even got to what I was supposed t...
Chris Laurikainen Gaete Large kangaroos today roam long distances across the outback, often surviving droughts by moving in mobs to find new food when pickings are slim. But not all kangaroos have been this way. In new research published today in PLOS One, we found giant kangaroos that once lived in...
Below, we’ve pulled together the most pivotal moments from Avery’s recent Stratechery interview with Ben Thompson. It’s a tale of sibling rivalry, dusty modems, open-source detours, and a vision for a better Internet. You can read the full Stratechery interview here. And now, on with our origin stor...
When you first meet someone, you are forced into the often tedious back-and-forth known as small talk. “How do you know Mark?” you ask, utterly uncaring for the answer. But the most common opening move in small talk, at least in many Western cultures, is the dreaded, “So, what do you do for a living...
by Akim Reinhardt On a hot summer evening in Baltimore last year, the daylight still washing over the city, I sat on my front porch, drinking a beer with a friend. Not many people passed by. Most who did were either walking a dog or making their way to the corner tavern. And then an…
The one time I wanted to buy Bitcoin at $1 and didn’t. I made a mistake. I believe it’s usually better to make a wrong decision than to not make any decision. For example, I didn’t have access to a PC until I was about 17. As a result, I made an uninformed decision when … Continue reading The Cost o...
Progress was agonizingly slow for most of human history, but the rapid progress of the last few centuries was not a fluke.
Apple is not doomed, but for the first time in a long time its long-term fortunes are cloudy; the time to make change is now.
What TV Character from a Beloved Show Do You Wish You Could Be Best Friends with in Real Life? I would really have enjoyed living in the world of Halt and Catch Fire, a show about a ten-year span of the early to mid-80s into the early 90s and the birth of the Internet. My brief interaction with corp...
What TV Character from a Beloved Show Do You Wish You Could Be Best Friends with in Real Life? I would really have enjoyed living in the world of Halt and Catch Fire, a show about a ten-year span of the early to mid-80s into the early 90s and the birth of the Internet. My brief interaction with corp...
A fossilized ocean reef on a mountaintop may hold clues to the evolution of complex life The post In Search of the First Animals appeared first on Nautilus.