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The Subtle Usefulness of 'NSFW'
How better to signal that content is objectionable without presuming anything about the individual you're warning?
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In an 1948 issue of the Atlantic, Walter Lippmann proposes options for balancing openness in museums and the imperative of preservation
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How better to signal that content is objectionable without presuming anything about the individual you're warning?
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The elite college places a variety of educational, media, and social apps on its collection of iPads.
Houston--Reducing municipal energy consumption.
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Wireless network names: the lawn signs of the digital age
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The music video for A Ghost Train's "Chemin Vert" zips across five continents at roughly 1,000 mph.
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A new airplane passes a big safety test.
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NASA's Terra satellite grabbed this picture of early-season snowfall in the Southern Hemisphere.
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The space station scientist has found the best way imaginable to pass the lonely hours away from earth.
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Worthy runners-up include the interfaces on most microwaves, TV remotes, New York City's parking signs, and pull-handles on push-only doors, according to users of Quora.
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That's what the best supply chain in the world will do for you.
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A tech Rorschach featuring cameos from Google, virtual reality, your eyeballs.
Google reveals some of what it has learned about how China's censorship system works.
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Go from Kinkade to Rothko, in eighteen easy steps.
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A picture of the storm that drenched Florida earlier this week, as seen from orbit.
Prelinger Library
These smells might not belong together after the environmental movement, but that's how they appeared in a 1948 textbook.
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Sorkin's dad, it turns out, was an IP lawyer.
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Wikipedia's four million articles are an impressive achievement, but the content of the encyclopedia is deeper than the entries alone: The structure is content too.
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Remember that time John McCain totally mocked "Vlad" Putin? So does the Internet.
If real estate is the ultimate scarce resource, a headphone is a small invisible fence around our minds, creating separation, helping us listen to ourselves
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The real reason not to invest in nuclear power isn't the risk of a meltdown but the certainty that the costs are too high.
David H. Freedman on smartphone apps and the perfected self, Mark Bowden on being in the dumb kids' class, James Parker on Glenn Beck, Isaac Chotiner on P. G. Wodehouse, and more
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