Monday, May 29, 2017

The Curious Case of the Disappearing Nuts

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From Outside: In California, millions of dollars' worth of almonds, walnuts, and pistachios are disappearing. Farmers are perplexed,...

Revolution Always Starts at the Worst Possible Time.

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A Brit in central Athens, Greece, outside Hotel Grande Bretagne. Revolution always start at the worst possible time. pic.twitter.com/3Q...

Memorial Day, 2017 II

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Fort Snelling National Cemetary, Frank Glick, 2011 "...that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for...

Memorial Day, 2017

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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

So, A Florida Man, An FT Journalist and an A16Z Venture Capitalist Walk Into A ....

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...ICO. ICO? First up. Balaji Srinivasan the Andreessen Horowitz partner who's also CEO of 21.co and a 2015 winner of the prestigious...

The World Is Running Out of Sand (Elon Musk to the rescue!)

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I wasn't going to say anything but since the New Yorker, not exactly your go-to for all things silica, has this story, let's bust it...

Something Is Very Wrong In Connecticut

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First it was this November post: "One of America’s Richest Towns Could Be In For a Housing Market Meltdown" Then we watched it ...

Alphaville's Kadim Shubber Discovers Some World Class Bloviating

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As a self-proclaimed connoisseur of orotund obsfucation I appreciate a fine bit o'bloviation from a scammer: How to Spot a Hedge Fund ...

Download 200 Free Art Books, Courtesy of the Guggenheim, or 2.2 Million Early Photographs From the Met or 25 Million Records from the Library of Congress

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From Smithsonian Magazine: Titles devoted to Picasso, Rothko, Lichtenstein, Klimt and more are now available for your reading pleasure ...
Saturday, May 27, 2017

How Cool Is This: State House Prices and Unemployment Rates

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The creator is Deputy Chief Economist at Freddie Mac. He's also pretty good at coding for data visualization. which would eventual...

"The Domino Effect: How machine logic infects our tastes"

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From Real Life: Americans order a lot of pizza: A 2014 survey by the U.S. Department of Agriculture suggested that one in eight America...

Complex Systems (more than the sum of their parts)

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I have a real love-hate relationship with the academic study of complexity. On the one hand, some topics that are of interest to this blog a...

"Early farmers and hunter-gatherers got it on with each other, study says" (looked vaguely like Fabio)

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If you blur Fabio. A lot. The facial reconstruction of a hunter-gatherer from Spain (somehow clean-shaven). Illustration by Serrull...

"Bitcoin and Tech Stocks: A 21st Century Tulipmania?"

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From Barron's Up and Down Wall Street column: Investors’ enthusiasm is reminiscent of the mania that struck the Dutch in the 1600s. It...