Last week's Off-Topic here.
Previously on MoreLiver’s:
BUSINESS
Weekend Lecture:
Michael Porter w/ Charlie Rose – Global
Macro Monitor
The comprehensive, fully caffeinated guide to
coffee at work – Quartz
SOCIETY
Send in the Clowns – Project
Syndicate
Chinese
bloggers, American Tea Party activists, British Europhobes, Egyptian Islamists,
Dutch populists, Greek ultra-rightists, and Thai "red shirts" all
share one thing: contempt for their countries' elites. And now Italy has Beppe Grillo, the first
professional comedian to lead a major political party in Europe.
Fatal Thaws – Project Syndicate – Project
Syndicate
Following
the Soviet
Union's
collapse, conflicts that had been "frozen" within the constraints of
Cold War geopolitics began to "unfreeze," leading to violent clashes
in some areas. Now, the world is experiencing a second unfreezing, triggered by
globalization, and is at risk of a third should the EU collapse.
MEDIA
The Long
Apprenticeship of Roman Coppola – co.create
Academy award-nominated screenwriter and director
Roman Coppola grew up in a filmmaking family, but his success in Hollywood is the
result of collaborations both familial and otherwise.
How Disney Bought Lucasfilm—and Its Plans for
'Star Wars' – Businessweek
This is the future of TV – Quartz
Still Abiding After 15 Years: The Laid-Back
World of 'Big Lebowski' Worship – The
Atlantic
A decade
and a half after its initial release in cinemas, the Coen brothers' strange
cult comedy often gets mined for—and sometimes creates—spiritual meaning.
MIND
Scientists Find Way to Image Brain Waste
Removal Process – Science
Blog
A novel way
to image the entire brain’s glymphatic pathway, a dynamic process that clears
waste and solutes from the brain that otherwise might build-up and contribute
to the development of Alzheimer’s disease, may provide the basis for a new
strategy to evaluate disease susceptibility,
Up All Night: The science of sleeplessness – The
New Yorker
The Mastermind effect – British
Psychological Society
Psychologists
boost students' general knowledge using priming placebo
The Algorithm That Helps You Friend People You
Don't Know – MIT
Technology Review
Computer
scientists have developed an algorithm that uses the structure of a social
network to find the best strategy for friending people you don’t know.
The Brain Activity Map – MIT
Technology Review
Researchers
explain the goals and structure of a new brain-mapping project.
The Case of the Quantum Brain – Discover
CYBERPUNK
How to punish robots when they inevitably turn
against us – Wonkblog
/ WP
His new
book, out next month, is “When Robots Kill: Artificial Intelligence under
Criminal Law.” We spoke Tuesday morning;
a lightly edited transcript follows.
Global Email Patterns Reveal “Clash of
Civilizations” – MIT
Technology Review
The global
pattern of email communication reflects the cultural fault lines thought to
determine future conflict, say computational social scientists
The First Wireless, Implantable Brain-Computer
Interface Will Help Us Move Things With Our Minds On the Go – Gizmodo
That’s Not A Droid, That’s My Girlfriend – The
Global Mail
Robotics in
many parts of the world is driven by military aims. Pacifist Japan takes a different approach: This is
a digital love story.
HARD
SCIENCES
Chasing the Higgs – NYT
The people
behind the search for the “God particle.”
Chinese Physicists Measure Speed of “Spooky
Action At a Distance”
– MIT
Technology Review
Einstein
railed against the possibility of spooky action at a distance because it
violates relativity. Now Chinese physicists have clocked it travelling more
than four orders of magnitude faster than light
These Vehicles Are Tons of Fun, and Good for
Thwarting Road Rage
– WSJ
Private tank
owners roll out heavy weaponry; a spin in parking lot
Russian
scientists believe they have found a wholly new type of bacteria in the
mysterious subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica
Cool Video: How Big is the Universe? – Marc
to Market
Earth Warmer Than in Most of the Past 11,300
Years – BB
The Earth
is warmer now than during 70 to 80 percent of the time stretching back to the
last Ice Age, according to researchers from Oregon State and Harvard universities who
studied data from more than 73 global sites.
OTHER
Online Education and Jazz – Marginal
Revolution
Alan Watts – Wikipedia
A
British-born philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and
populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience.