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Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so’
The visionary historian, author of two dazzling bestsellers on the state of mankind, takes questions from Lucy Prebble, Arianna Huffington, Esther Rantzen and a selection of our readers
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Choose A Book And Read To Your Barber, He'll Take A Little Money Off The Top
Jozef Jason came to the Fuller Cut barbershop for one reason: the kid's mohawk. It's almost second-grade picture day, and he wants to look good. He hops up onto an antique swivel chair and asks his barber for the new 'do. "It's high on the top and short on the bottom, and lines that go in a diagonal line where the top is gonna be," explains the 7-year-old.
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Interesting new mathematical power notation
Okay, let's get something straight right off the bat - logarithmic notation in maths is bad and doesn't make a whole lot of sense. And on the one hand, who cares, because maths is so much more than notation anyway. But on the other hand, it makes...
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Open access: All human knowledge is there—so why can’t everybody access it?
We paid for the research with taxes, and Internet sharing is easy. What's the hold-up?
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The Game Of Thrones Virginity Pledge: Saving Yourself For The Books
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Moneyball for Book Publishers: A Detailed Look at How We Read
Andrew Rhomberg wants to be the Billy Beane of the book world. Mr. Beane used analytics to transform baseball, famously recounted in “Moneyball,” a book by Michael Lewis. Now Mr. Rhomberg wants to use data about people’s reading habits to radically reshape how publishers acquire, edit and market books. “We still know almost nothing about readers, especially in trade publishing,” said Mr. Rhomberg, the founder of Jellybooks, a reader analytics company based in London.
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Liberty Bridge could be the ultimate car-free span
The park-like pair of interwoven pedestrian and cyclist paths — a mile long and 200 feet high — would cross the Hudson River, linking New Jersey and Manhattan.
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Words are Muck
(and why I’m still an English Major)
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The Science of ‘Accidental’ Joke-Stealing and Plagiarism
Over the past 20 years, attempts have been made to understand through experimentation a phenomenon known as “cryptomnesia,” whereby you arrive at an apparently original idea that you later turn out to have heard from someone else or to have read somewhere. It can occasionally be the cause of what has perhaps rather generously been called “unconscious plagiarism.” In the laboratory, cryptomnesia can be replicated through subtle manipulation of the processes of forgetting.
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10 Apps That Will Make Any Freelancer More Creative
When people find out I freelance, they always ask me the same question: “How do you think of all your ideas?”
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An Open Letter: Why Atheists Won't Shut Up in 2015
2015 is almost here, and the past year has once again seen atheists, agnostics, and the irreligious become more numerous, more visible, and more vocal about their lack of faith. Unfortunately, for every voice that expresses this opinion, a thousand more demand it be silenced, be it out of ignorance, anger, or fear. Some ask “If you’re such an atheist, why do you talk so much about religions you don’t believe in?” So prevalent is this hostility is some areas of the world...
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EyeMusic demonstrator
The EyeMusic is a tool that provides visual information through a musical auditory experience. The EyeMusic technology is being developed by Amir Amedi's Lab at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Will a guaranteed income ever come to America?
When activists in Switzerland dumped 8 million Swiss coins – one for each citizen – in front of the Parliament building in Bern last fall, the rest of the world took notice. Not just because it was a compelling publicity stunt, but because the activists secured enough signatures to get a referendum on an unconditional basic income on the ballot. If it’s adopted as part of the Swiss constitution, citizens, regardless of whether they work, would receive 30,000 Swiss Francs (about $34,000) a year.
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If You Think You’re a Genius, You’re Crazy
When John Forbes Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician, schizophrenic, and paranoid delusional, was asked how he could believe that space aliens had recruited him to save the world, he gave a simple response. “Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.”
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choreographer's creative process in real time
We all use our body on a daily basis, and yet few of us think about our physicality the way Wayne McGregor does. He demonstrates how a choreographer communicates ideas to an audience.
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Have Jedis Created a New 'Religion'?
Followers of Jediism are aiming to build a belief system that goes beyond the Star Wars films. But does it amount to a new religion?
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Red Neck Couch Moving
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A casino that has no house aims to change gambling
The first rule of gambling is this: The house always wins. Professional gamblers know this. Amateurs know this. Even Danny Ocean knows this.
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The Dancing Traffic Light
We believe that smart ideas can turn the city into a better place. Like a dancing traffic light that makes people wait and watch rather than walk through the red light. FOR more safety.
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$400 dining experience suspends guests 160ft above city landmarks
Suspended 160ft in the air, this is the last place that you would expect to find a fine dining experience. These smartly dressed diners are strapped into their chairs with six-point seatbelts at a table attached to a crane.
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