Sunday Reading
...Age: Keynes, Malthus, Marx and the Post-Scarcity Vision Reclaim UC: The FBI is seeking information from UCI activists The Governor, the UC budget, and online education UC student code of...
Phantom Tollbooths
...freely accessible online. While researchers themselves generally support open access, private journal publishers like Elsevier depend on the protection of copyright in order to make money, which they do by...
Free Fall
When sex-work decriminalization will never be enough, we have to find other ways to keep each other alive
Place Matters
...Google Making Us Stupid?,” have found that we do not truly engage in online content, preferring to “power browse.” We scan the headlines for information or search for items of...
An Apology for the Institutionalized Death
...large volume of support she received online and the activity of researchers earnestly devoted to this technology. While this tension between knowing and exceeding our physical limitations is perennial, it...
Their Justice Shall Be Our Justice: A Dialogue on the ICC Witness Project
...the poems not attributed to individual poets? When the project went online for public view (as opposed to being created and shared on listserves) the general consensus was that the...
Woke Up Dead
...currency. I’m not enough of a curmudgeon to suggest that online communication is inherently without value, or that our online interactions aren’t authentic, “real” expressions of human bonding. I think...
Triple-Decker Weekly, 29
...existence of a purely vocal form of tone deafness. [Acoustical Society of America | PDF] Nowadays, many massively multiplayer online video games have become so complex that game companies are...
The Poverty of Entrepreneurship: The Silicon Valley Theory of History
How Silicon Valley coopts history for its own autocratic ends.
Labor Pains
...of Oxfordshire, UK, a commissioning couple featured in the Daily Mail in 2012. To couples like these, surrogates are presented as transnational reproductive-service workers, their job description posted online and...
Beauty Blogosphere 10.12.12
...Eve Plumb, Lisa Hammer, and Lisa Ferber, and written by Ferber (whom you've met plenty of times on The Beheld before)—qualifies as madcap comedy. The second season is now online....
The Viral Virus
...you know for sure whether you have anxiety after probing the possibility online? Pharmaceutical companies certainly hope to persuade you. Self-diagnosis on sites like WebMD can drive drug-company profits, and...
The End of Plastic
...plastic, and why. As the price of plastic creeps up, we can start bringing alternative materials online. A good example is switching disposable cutlery to bioderived, compostable plastics — there's...
Playing Outside
...changed his mind, one imagines, but because he’d simply become exhausted by Internet trolls and declared a truce. Gamers are a force to be reckoned with online, uniting with absurd...
Place Matters
...that we do not truly engage in online content, preferring to “power browse.” We scan the headlines for information or search for items of temporary entertainment value. Our minds are...
Triple-Decker Weekly, 117
...in on Hospitals How the FBI took down the online black market and drug bazaar known as the Silk Road Quick-change materials break the silicon speed limit for computers Where...