This week's off-topic readings pay tribute to Neil Armstrong. May he rest in peace.
Earlier on
MoreLiver’s:
NEIL ARMSTRONG (August 5, 1930
– August 25, 2012)
Neil Armstrong – babbage / The
Economist
Neil Armstrong, Whose ‘Giant Leap’ Put Man on
the Moon, Dies – BB
First man on moon Neil Armstrong dead at 82 – Reuters
U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, who took a giant
leap for mankind when he became the first person to walk on the moon, has died
at the age of 82, his family said on Saturday.
Made ‘Giant Leap’ as First Man on Moon – NYT
Astronaut Neil Armstrong, first man on moon,
dies – BBC
Neil Armstrong: Astronaut made history by
stepping on moon – BBC
Neil Armstrong – wikipedia
Moon Machines
Great documentary on the Apollo program, on
Youtube:
5. Suits 1/3 , 2/3, 3/3
Why Waiting Is Torture – NYT
Why does the return journey feel quicker? – Irish
Times
Dan Ariely’s 6 Rules to Fight Bad
Decision-Making Under Stress – Advisor
One
Behavioral economist and ‘Predictably
Irrational’ author examines why sometimes it's so hard to do the right thing
TECH
Google's audacious bet on fiber -- and why it
could work – Fortune
The company is building an Internet Valhalla in Kansas City. Most observers have
scoffed at the effort. But they're wrong.
What the Apple v. Samsung Verdict Means for the
Rest of Us – Wired
ROBOTICS
Part II - Robots to Rule the World? Taking All
Jobs? Replace Women?
– Mish’s
Skilled Work, Without the Worker – NYT
What's Lost (And Found) In Machine Translation – big
think
SPACE
Sending messages from Mars: Interplanetary
broadband – Babbage
/ The Economist
Mars and the Mind of Man – brain
pickings
Carl Sagan, Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke
in Conversation, 1971
We Shouldn’t Give Up on SETI – IEEE
Spectrum
ARTS
Tesla’s Revenge: Filmmakers Kickstart
Electrifying Docudrama About Cult Genius – Wired
Leaping at Electronic Prodigies – NYT
Electronic
dance music is having its day as the sound of young America, and the music industry is taking
notice.
50 genius facts about GoodFellas – ShortList
Stuff I bet
you didn’t know about this classic movie.
Cosmopolis – reason
David Cronenberg's delightfully strange riff on
sex, technology, capitalism, and the quest for a good haircut.
WIKILEAKS
WikiLeaks and Free Speech – Opinion
/ NYT
by Michael
Moore and Oliver Stone
The Affair Assange rips off the veil concealing
the face of modern journalism – Fabius Maximus
Is this the photo that could clear Assange? – The
Daily Mail
Grinning for the camera, WikiLeaks boss and
woman who says he sexually assaulted her 48 hours earlier…He insists he has
been set up, and fears that going to Sweden is a ruse for him to be quickly
extradited to America, where he could stand trial for leaking hundreds of
thousands of classified US military documents on the WikiLeaks website.
OTHER
Why are we all working so much? – Wonkblog
/ WP
Fun fact: we’re more than twice as productive
as we were in 1964. That means that we could work less than half as much as we
did then and still have 1964-style living standards.
Each August
since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College
Mindset List, providing a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives
of students entering college this fall.
TED Reveals Top 20 Most-Watched Talks – techcrunch
Announcing our visualization awards shortlist… – information
is beautiful
Poker Is Not Gambling, Jury Still Out On
Investing – Dealbreaker
Humanities aren’t a science. Stop treating them
like one. – SciAm
Ray Bradbury on Storytelling and Human Nature
in 1963 Documentary
– brainpickings
Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation – Whale