Mine Hunting Bees!
And a hive health app for your smart phone. Cool. www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21739645-matching-honeybee-noises-their-ailments-new-app-listens-problems
Category: Commentary
Why Brits love pub quizzes
www.economist.com/news/britain/21739747-fully-grown-britons-seem-love-setting-each-other-exams-why-britain-obsessed-quizzes
Don’t Fix Facebook. Replace It. – The New York Times
We need better options that are designed to protect our privacy. — Read on mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/03/opinion/facebook-fix-replace.html Tim Wu is an insightful writer. Check out his book The Attention Merchants.
How Facebook uses your data is different from how Google uses your data
www.theatlantic.com/notes/2018/04/googles-one-time-chief-technology-advocate-on-making-facebook-likable/557378/
Whatever happened to the 3 lb chicken?
Nothing under 4 lbs these days. Takes longer to cook (so much for the 1 hour roast chicken dinner on Fridays), more leftovers (not necessarily bad although there is increased Read More …
When did muffins become small cakes?
Looking for something quick and healthy (or at least not unhealthy) for breakfast on the go. Only “muffins” at Cafe Vita were really small cakes.
Ellsberg vs Snowden
Leakers vs Hackers. An important distinction. Leakers have a specific message. Hackers just want to reveal how clever they are. Message vs data dump. Signal vs noise. New Yorker. http://nyer.cm/fNrjScL
Psychopaths don’t do fear…
Psychopaths don’t really do fear; mainly just aggression, boredom or pleasure – Tana French Into the Woods.
Geolocation is a pain more often than not
I’m in Canada and I want to renew a subscription. I get three quarters of the way through the process and the cost pops up in Canadian dollars. I have Read More …
Plato was Right
People who are invisible and anonymous do not act civilly or morally. Time to fix the Internet. The Atlantic
