The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways. | | | | | "Capricorn One" (1977) (Warner Bros.) | | | | |  | “The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.”
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| | rantnrave:// For all the industry's value and opportunity, almost every aspect of the video business is under attack or in a state of flux. Earlier this year, the REDEF team created a deck designed to help leaders chart a path forward. "The Future Of Video"... It's like there's a movie with the entire MARVEL bad guy universe. But it's real... My predicton is large numbers of people shun news and media to avoid depression... The farce is with us... Happy Birthday to QUINCY SMITH, TARA GORDON LIPTON, JUSTIN HERZ, JAMES SEGIL, JASON KORB, ANGEL GAMBINO, GLENN GOLDSTEIN, THOMAS MUKAMAL, SEAN HAYES, LAURA MIRAGLIA MOLEN, DAVID EBERSMAN. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Newsweek |
| The president-elect is issuing statements to world leaders that radically depart from U.S. foreign policy, and benefit his family’s corporate empire. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services -- and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself. | | |
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 | Harvard Business Review |
| A case study in poor policy and even poorer execution. | | |
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 | Forbes |
| While every startup compares itself to Uber, Travis Kalanick is positioning his $68 billion company more like Amazon. From people to freight, if something is in motion he wants to be at the center of it . | | |
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 | BuzzFeed |
| Paul Gaudio, Adidas’s quiet creative director, transformed its product line and turned a perennial runner-up into the hottest name in sportswear. How the 67-year-old brand harnessed the rise of 24/7 sneaker culture. | | |
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 | Vanity Fair |
| With the value of maple syrup at roughly $1,300 a barrel, it’s time everyone knew about FPAQ, the Canadian group that controls 72 percent of the world’s supply. | | |
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 | Racked |
| Men won't invest in what they don't understand. | | |
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 | PolitiFact |
| Ignoring the facts has long been a staple of political speech. Every day, politicians overstate some statistic, distort their opponents’ positions, or simply tell out-and-out whoppers. Surrogates and pundits spread the spin. Then there’s fake news, the phenomenon that is now sweeping, well, the news. | | |
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 | Radio Garden |
| Explore live radio by rotating the globe. | | |
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 | Medium |
| Free trade is on the run. The president-elect of the United States calls the free market the “dumb market.” He wants to renegotiate past trade deals. The death spiral of manufacturing jobs makes people wonder if trade with China was really such a good idea. | | |
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 | Granta |
| ‘We now know that it is a criminal offence to help refugees in distress.’ Lisbeth Zornig Anderson on being prosecuted for helping refugees in Denmark. | | |
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 | The Science of Sport |
| Nike's announcement that they're backing three top marathoners to break the 2 hour marathon barrier in Spring 2017, is the latest installment in the sub-2 hype. Relevance and legitimacy aside, what would it take, product and course wise, to achieve? I look at shoes and downhill running to illustrate the concept of physiological barriers and how they might be shifted. | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| Across battlegrounds, Democrats blame HQ’s stubborn commitment to a one-size-fits-all strategy. | | |
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 | Columbia Journalism Review |
| After an election upset that exposed media types as out of touch with the conservative electorate, many journalists have been looking for ways to pop, or at least counter the effects, of the so-called “filter bubble.” Right Richter, a media digest for people who don’t usually consume right-wing news, might be a good start. | | |
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 | Vox |
| From "Sausage Party" to "Silence," it was a banner year for religion onscreen. | | |
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 | Vulture |
| Fox's latest drama from Empire creator Lee Daniels, Star, centers on a young white woman who flees foster care, her biracial sister, and their rich black friend who move to Atlanta to try to make it big as a girl group. The series,which premieres December 14, has none of the sheen or flair that made Empire an instant juggernaut. | | |
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 | The Drum |
| The food and drink industry faces criticism from every angle. From government regulations on the advertisement of alcohol, society’s pressures to keep trim and slim and ‘Lean In Fifteen’, to the impact of waste and resource on the world’s rising temperature; food and drink brands have to cater for any possible criticism. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Under General Pinochet’s rule of terror in Chile, one man saved thousands of people from the dictator’s brutal secret police. How did Roberto Kozak do it -- and escape death? | | |
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 | Collectors Weekly |
| "Though it’s hard to believe, there once was a time when workers in the Rust Belt were delighted to have their jobs—and themselves—shipped overseas." | | |
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 | GeekWire |
| John Vechey greets me at the door of a strikingly spacious one-floor office in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, just off the water at Salmon Bay. The PopCap Games co-founder, now leading a startup called Pluto VR, immediately takes me into a room and hands me an HTC Vive virtual reality headset. He leaves, and a few minutes later, three human avatars pop up in my view. | | |
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 | O'Reilly |
| Four factors to consider when assessing the impact of AI on design professions. | | |
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 | recode |
| Can we count on Washington to keep the playing field level? | | |
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