Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Dots or people—what do you want your readers to think? (Ryan Norton via Flickr.) Jake Harris on data visualization, empathy, and representing people with dots One of my favorite movies is the classic 1949 thriller “The Third Man.” The story is about a writer who arrives in gloomy post-war Vienna on the promise of a job…
Five categories. Thirty-two films. All about science. Today, as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces the nominations for those coveted Oscar statuettes, WSF launches our first-ever Scio Awards. Vote for your favorite actor in a scientist role or write in your pick. You have until February 22nd, the date of the Academy Awards ceremony,…
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The Spiral 2 prototypeProject Ara, Google’s Google’s effort to bring to life a modular phone that you put together like Lego bricks, is coming to Puerto Rico in a pilot later this year.At its second Project Ara Developer Conference on Google’s campus in Mountain View today, Project Ara director Paul Eremenko discussed Google’s go-to-market plans. Instead of…
Target to close all 133 Canadian stores; 17,600 employees will lose jobs Target says it will close its stores in Canada, a market that it entered only two years ago. Image: AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Ryan Remiorz/Associated Press By Anita Li2015-01-15 17:18:19 UTC TORONTO — Target is closing all of its stores in Canada, less…
I was introduced to Janet a couple of years ago by a friend; we shared her blog posts from Musings On Love with each other, a blog where Janet wrote about her life in love and lamented her struggles. I was struck by the way she talked about love and loss, or even herself—there was…
Photo A convention for fast-food workers last July in Addison, Ill., called for higher minimum wages. Credit Nathan Weber for The New York Times close shareTools All eyes are on wages. For workers who have faced six years of stagnant pay, Federal Reserve officials trying to decide when they can safely raise interest rates, or…
The Swiss National Bank’s shock move today to stop intervening in the foreign exchange market all but guarantees the European Central Bank will finally introduce quantitative easing when it meets Jan. 22. Switzerland is surrendering before a wave of post-QE money fleeing the euro threatens to make a mockery of its currency policy. It’s also…
One of the co-founders of Charlie Hebdo spoke out this week with some harsh words for slain editor-in-chief Stéphane Charbonnier (a.k.a. Charb), accusing him of “dragging the team” to their deaths. According to The Telegraph, Henri Roussel told the late Charb, “I really hold it against you.” He considers Charb both an “amazing lad” and…
REALLY?! 01.15.15 InTouch Puts Transphobia on Its Cover with Bruce Jenner Photoshop On the heels of a Golden Globe win for ‘Transparent,’ praise for the Jolie-Pitts’ support of their child going by ‘John,’ and the year Laverne Cox ruled, InTouch proved it’s nothing but out of touch. Bruce Jenner’s gender is the papal white smoke…