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DECEMBER 9, 2011

Supermassive black holes are largest ever discovered - The Guardian. Joi Ito (from MIT Media Lab ) argues that it's a philosophy. mit media lab. the guardian. year one labs. " (Alistair for Mitch). "Think your problems are big? That's big." " (Hugh for Alistair). " (Mitch for Alistair).

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DECEMBER 13, 2014

Steve Albini on the surprisingly sturdy state of the music industry - The Guardian. "An the guardian. year one labs. In this way a moving image of the world will be established, a true mirror of [its] memory.''" (Hugh for Alistair). An amazing talk on the state of the music industry, by producer and engineer Steve Albini."

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DECEMBER 5, 2014

In this video for Lift , he talks about the links between psychedelic drug culture, the computer revolution, and where technologies like Oculus Rift are bringing us full circle." Chernobyl''s eerie desolation revealed by camera mounted on drone - The Guardian. "In the guardian. year one labs. Alistair for Mitch).

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OCTOBER 5, 2013

"We humans are daft, making all kinds of mistakes from the data around us. David McRaney has made a career of reminding us of this, and his post on how easily we misread the information around us is fascinating and funny." In praise of Richard Stallman, GNU''s open sourcerer - The Guardian. the guardian.

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DECEMBER 8, 2012

the guardian. year one labs. "'Nigella Lawson is hot. She might just have to take off her shirt. And lick this whipped cream to quench her thirst. Ooo, naughty.' In the UK, it's a running joke that celebrity chef Nigella Lawson sells crumpet along with, well, her crumpet. bitcurrent. close to the machine. complete web monitoring.

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MARCH 16, 2012

What the media can learn from Facebook - The Guardian. " Jeff Jarvis skewers the traditional media's disdain of social networks in this excellent Guardian piece. the guardian. year one labs. The story is nearly as amazing as the resulting pictures." " (Alistair for Hugh). bitcurrent. coding horror.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

Apple, Samsung, Google and the smartphone patent wars - everything you need to know - The Guardian. the guardian. year one labs. As Bob says, 'There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.'" " (Alistair for Mitch). "The Apple / Samsung patent war explained." bitcurrent.

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JULY 25, 2017

Globalisation: the rise and fall of an idea that swept the world - The Guardian. "Is Devices are created to make us addicted. the guardian. year one labs. . Check out these six links that we're recommending to one another: . Fake news takes many forms, and often it's the underlying economic incentives that are to blame."

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JUNE 24, 2016

Using Metadata To Find Paul Revere - Kieran Healey. "I It's interesting, because it shows how simple facts (like membership in known groups) can tell us a lot about people -- in this case, that Paul Revere was plotting against the British. Three shirts, four pairs of trousers: meet Japan's 'hardcore' minimalists - The Guardian.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Battleship beast: colossal dinosaur skeleton found in southern Patagonia - The Guardian. the guardian. year one labs. " Which reminds me of one of the great visualizations of the magic of Wikipedia , Jon Udell ''s Heavy Metal Umlaut (which I have probably shared here before, but it''s worth checking out again)."

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OCTOBER 19, 2013

We bonded over the fact that neither of us had cavities until relatively late in life. "Well, the US government shutdown is over. Snapchat admits to handing unopened ''snaps'' to US law enforcement - The Guardian. the guardian. year one labs. " (Hugh for Alistair). " (Hugh for Mitch).

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APRIL 28, 2017

How eBooks lost their shine: 'Kindles now look clunky and unhip' - The Guardian. "I I thought that more and more people were just using the Kindle app (or other reading apps) on their smartphones, instead of carrying around another device. the guardian. year one labs. Mitch for Alistair). advertising agency. automation.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Spotify: how a busy songwriter you''ve never heard of makes it work for him - The Guardian. the guardian. year one labs. Our quantum problem - Aeon Magazine. "The head-scratching problems with Quantum Theory." " (Hugh for Alistair). "Want to hear a song about mayonnaise? Or, Brisbane? Or, door-handles?

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NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Obama's drone war a 'recruitment tool' for Isis, say US air force whistleblowers - The Guardian. "It It might be a good idea for us to figure out what is happening with ISIS. the guardian. year one labs. While we're busy remembering the fallen, we should know how and why they fell." Alistair for Mitch).

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JANUARY 16, 2016

BowieNet: how David Bowie's ISP foresaw the future of the internet - The Guardian. Scientists struggle to stay grounded after possible gravitational wave signal - The Guardian. the guardian. year one labs. . Alistair for Hugh). Two titans of British entertainment, Bowie and Rickman, will be missed for different reasons.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

While it''s horrible and deadly, as a species it''s the big, slow changes that will do us in. For the last half-century, we''ve been carefully training bacteria to resist our strongest medicines, through a blend of bad science, agricultural use, and consumer misunderstanding. the guardian. year one labs. alistair croll.

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JUNE 22, 2013

Had they access to the rebel''s contacts, it would have been an easy matter to thwart the US independence. What happened when I started a feminist society at school - The Guardian. the guardian. year one labs. That it''s written in the language of the time makes it all the juicer." " (Alistair for Mitch).

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JANUARY 15, 2011

And when the news shows us twelve-year-olds attacking commuters , while their friends look on and strangers record it on cameras, it's easy to believe. Universe captured in mind-boggling detail by Sloan Digital Sky Survey - The Guardian. Celebs, They're Geeks Like Us: Libraries of the Rich and Famous - flavorwire. the guardian.

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JULY 15, 2016

Radical new economic system will emerge from collapse of capitalism - The Guardian. "We How technology disrupted the truth - The Guardian. the guardian. year one labs. . Tim Parks argues that the EU is broken, and Brexit might be the kick that forces the EU (and the EC) to reform." Hugh for Mitch). . bit current.

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DECEMBER 21, 2013

Pushed into the limelight by Amazon ''s announcement of drone-delivered packages , this is a topic that, much as steam power did, will galvanize unions and make us reconsider the boundaries of work. Pirate Bay switches address for the sixth time this year - The Guardian. the guardian. year one labs. alistair croll.

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OCTOBER 17, 2015

Solu: the Finnish pocket computer that wants to take over the world - The Guardian. When we think of computers, most of us think about laptops. When we think about mobile, most of us think about smartphones and tablets. the guardian. year one labs. . Hugh for Mitch). atlas obscura. bit current. hugh mcguire.

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MAY 28, 2011

"This piece by Jo Walton reflects on the situations that force us to hang out with people who are different from us: doctors' offices, shunned slices of the population, schoolyards, public transit. Open science: a future shaped by shared experience - Guardian UK. guardian uk. year one labs. bitcurrent.

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JULY 18, 2012

Helium is a non-renewable resource; it tends to leak out easily, and its price has been controlled by the US strategic reserve. The Guardian. Why I opened the 'Bank' of Dave - The Guardian. the guardian. year one labs. Turns out that's not very sustainable. So say goodbye to talking in those funny voices.

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DECEMBER 5, 2015

Simon Rogers (formerly of The Guardian , and now Twitter ) knows from archives." Do you ever wake up and say, 'Oh my God, AI is going to take over the Earth and turn us into The Matrix ,'. He'll still be doing about thousand percent more than most of us, and giving away more than any one of us could ever hope to.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

I find this incredibly inspiring -- science you can do on your kitchen table that makes us rethink the nature of matter." That is what we need to wake up to' - The Guardian. Meditation and mindfulness used to be relegated to random and weird stores that would sell everything from incense to religious literature to crystals.

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JANUARY 10, 2014

Knowing where Google street view is available tells you a lot about the world''s economies; seeing the only 22 countries that Britain didn''t invade reminds us of how far the empire once reached; and so on." TED isn''t a recipe for ''civilisational disaster'' - The Guardian. the guardian. year one labs. ascent stage.

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JUNE 8, 2012

lecture at the Computer History Museum , he reminds us that the Valley wasn't just silicon - DARPA , the CIA , and others fueled the tech boom with government funds. "Telling a great story is something all of us need to do a whole lot better, but it's way more art than science. san francisco bay guardian. year one labs.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The gig economy is upon us. Car hacking is the future - and sooner or later you'll be hit - The Guardian. the guardian. year one labs. . And the way it describes quantum computing -- 'The only difference is, instead of rendering the heaving bosom of you VR waif it's asking God to do your math homework.' -- is perfect.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Now it's illegal to write down prices in a Tesco supermarket - The Guardian. the guardian. year one labs. "I'm at O'Reilly's Strata conference this week, which looks at the advent of Big Data , new interfaces, and ubiquitous computing. Plenty of speakers talk about the utopian possibilities of data transparency.

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AUGUST 16, 2014

There is an awful lot to be concerned about in this story: the militarization of the police, the collapse of the ability of the US economy to support the lower-income classes and neighborhoods, the interest of the media in one kind of a story over another, and, of course, the still-raw, still pervasive conflict between white and black.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2015

She was serving homebrew limoncello (with an Aperture Labs label) to all comers, and telling stories. Why reading and writing on paper can be better for your brain - The Guardian. "I''m This world of ours will require a lot more power and energy (especially with all of the issues that oil has caused us over the years).

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MARCH 31, 2017

The road to immortality - The Guardian. "If Can we use technology to get us beyond this whole 'dying' thing? the guardian. year one labs. Check out these six links that we're recommending to one another: . Machine life has begun.' If this sounds like science fiction. Is immortality just a few years/decades away?

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the ''pathetic'' American media - The Guardian. He broke Mai Lai, Abu Grhaib, and is the best writer on US military and foreign policy I know of. the guardian. year one labs. " (Hugh for Alistair). I''ve been wondering where he is, what with Iran and Syria and Egypt and and and.

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DECEMBER 23, 2011

Most print newspapers in the States have only a five-year life span - The Guardian. That - in and of itself - forces us to stop asking questions about when newspapers will go away and start doing the very hard work of trying to figure out what comes next and what we're going to do about?" the guardian. year one labs.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2016

The Malfunctioning Tech Economy - The Guardian. the guardian. year one labs. Shifting Colors Of An Octopus May Hint At A Rich, Nasty Social Life - The Two-Way - NPR. "I I love octopi. I mean, they have neurons on their skin! They also dress up like vampires, apparently." Hugh for Mitch). Yes, it's early days, but it's a gem.

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MARCH 10, 2012

the guardian. year one labs. "The digital-first newspaper pushes the envelope on many fronts, from its data journalism to its interactive reporting. This ad takes a familiar fairy tale, and pastes it atop the lurid, often controversial, and always inflammatory surface of today's media world. bitcurrent. complete web monitoring.

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JULY 3, 2015

Alistair and I once gave a presentation together called: ' An API for Books ,' and both of us have done work, in one way or another, thinking about what books could be in our digital world, and sadly, aren't for the most part. Welcome to Jun, the town that ditched bureaucracy to run on Twitter - The Guardian. the guardian.

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