That year we had planned to fish for marlin off the Cuban coast for a month. The month started the tenth of April and by the tenth of May we had twenty-five marlin and the charter was over.
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Has pandemic pushed us into a post-human future?
A few days ago the dry cleaners who moved into my building over a decade ago, shut down. The pandemic’s pause took a heavy toll on their business, and it became virtually impossible for them to continue. I didn’t even get to say a proper goodbye.
The Scourge of “Relatability”
If Twitter is a place in which a user may be rewarded for exposing his most stupid self, Ira Glass put the medium to good use this week, when, after watching John Lithgow appear as King Lear at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park, he tweeted his response: “Shakespeare sucks.
The ‘Credibility Bookcase’ Is the Quarantine’s Hottest Accessory
The bookcase has become the preferred background for applying a patina of authority to an amateurish video feed. Imagine that you are a member of the expert class — the kind of person invited to pontificate on television news programs.
Show but don’t tell: why silent Zooms are golden for focusing the mind
There are Zooms for pub quizzes, Zooms for dinner parties, Zooms for work meetings and now there is a Zoom for sitting together and not talking at all. Behold, the silent Zoom!
‘Expert Twitter’ Only Goes So Far. Bring Back Blogs
Cal Newport is a professor of computer science at Georgetown University and the author of Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (2019). Late last month I did an interview with GQ about technology and the coronavirus pandemic.
The Pandemic Isn’t a Black Swan but a Portent of a More Fragile Global System
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is “irritated,” he told Bloomberg Television on March 31st, whenever the coronavirus pandemic is referred to as a “black swan,” the term he coined for an unpredictable, rare, catastrophic event, in his best-selling 2007 book of that title.
What a WoW virtual outbreak taught us about how humans behave in epidemics
When it comes to a global pandemic, human beings are the ultimate wild card. That makes it challenging to build accurate mathematical models to predict how the progress of the disease will play out.
Night Owls For Life
If you’re just not a morning person, science says you may never be, over at Vox.
Cut Your Own Records with the Easy Record Maker
Sound artist & designer Yuri Suzuki has designed the Easy Record Maker, an affordable machine for cutting your own records. Suzuki explains how it works on Instagram: To cut a record, you simply play audio through an aux cable and lift the cutting arm onto a blank disc.