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No relationship is perfect. Try to start thinking of yours as an ecosystem that you share with someone else.

Tony Tulathimutte’s debut novel, Private Citizens, made me deeply uncomfortable. It was a pleasurable sort of discomfort: the book is also smart and dense and, often, hilarious. But over the few da…

In 1983, Acorn Computers needed a CPU. So 10 people built one.

How does music work? What did an Ancient Greek philosopher have to do with it? Why did he keep drowning people? Discover the answers to these questions and more as we take a tour through musical tuning systems, examining how the power of mathematics has helped us build and rebuild our methods of creating music throughout history. Pythagorean tuning, the Pythagorean comma, equal temperament - learn what these are and how they shaped the way we make music today. Join my Discord server to discuss this video and more: https://discord.gg/AVcU9w5gVW Give your feedback on this video here: [Feedback is now closed, thanks everyone for all the responses!] I created this video as part of a mathematics communication module at university, so would really appreciate your feedback. Leaving a comment or filling in the survey linked above would be perfect. Note your answers will be recorded and used in an evaluative report. SOURCES Math and Music: Harmonious Connections (Seymour Dale Publications) - Trudi H. Garland and Charity Vaughan Kahn, 1994 Harmonograph (Wooden Books) - Anthony Asthon, 2005 The Elements of Music (Wooden Books) - Jason Martineau, 2008 Big Bangs: Five Musical Revolutions (Vintage) - Howard Goodall, 2001 Music: A Mathematical Offering (University of Aberdeen) - David Bensen, 2008 Pythagoras (Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy) - Carl Huffman, 2005 The Death of Pythagoras (Philosophy Now) - Bruce Pennington, 2010 The Development of Musical Tuning Systems - Peter A. Frazier, 2001

The funky, salty, magical salume that will change how you cook.

In interview with British journalist, Morales says the U.S. uses NATO to provoke wars and sell weapons. U.S./UK-backed coup against him in 2019 was undertaken for lithium and because his government advanced an alternative economic model to the neoliberal “Washington Consensus”

You can always tell who in Hollywood has family money by their Instagrams. People like Dakota Johnson, who have a Hollywood lineage deeper than the Mariana Trench, post only rarely. They post about social justice causes they care about, or personal announcements. Even someone like actress and musician Maya Hawke mostly posts previews of upcoming […]

If you see that big sharky grin from across the net anytime over the next two decades, it's probably a cue to pack up your rackets and hit the ice bath.

Dear Beau,To understand the point in life we must first understand what it is to be human. It seems to me that the common agent...

Ehrenreich’s work has always acknowledged that power operates at the intimate level, and that this is part of what makes it difficult to resist. To engage in political struggle is not just frightening, it is painful, because power is not just out there: it is also a voice in your own head—projection, inner fear. This is a distinctively feminist insight and not by coincidence.

The phone scenes from 'Lost Highway,' 'Mulholland Drive,' and 'Inland Empire' edited into one paranoid sequence that highlights the terror that can be spawned from a simple phone call.

In a long, often terrifying career, The Mystery Man from ‘Lost Highway’ sticks out as the stuff of nightmares.

It had the blue-chip partners, the tech and the right players. None of which could save it

Have the option to work in tech, but concerned about the ethics of the industry? There's a solution for that: organise.

What can we expect from the tech workers movement in 2021?

“Sincerity, as any hipster will tell you, is for awkward teens and people on SSRIs.”

The new ICA Impact Note is an innovative investment structure that helps businesses grow quantitative social impact outcomes—and you can use it too.

An Interview with Phil La Duke

Incel jargon is seeping into the mainstream, and that’s not good for anybody

Introducing the pluriverse as a banner for new, communal futures and a Pattern Language for a world where many worlds may fit

2021 will go down in history.

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2019. #gotocon #gotochgohttp://gotochgo.comSaša Jurić - Author of "Elixir in Action”ABSTRACTWhether you're dev...

The best framework for coordinating — and making a difference — may not be a choice between the two models, but a blend of both.

Dreams Never Die is an independent record label preparing to convert into a DAO, and we’re looking for early builders to join the team—especially those with experience in tokenomics and the broader Web3 space, but also artists, aspiring and established music professionals, fans, and anyone who resonates with our mission.

In the years before the 2008 crash, technocrats ensured political debate was relegated to the sidelines. Today, politics is everywhere – but it hasn't returned in the way many might have hoped.

Moxie just wrote his first impressions on web3. If you've been wondering about web3, and want a non-bullshit and technical glance at what it is, I think this is a really good post. While I do agree with his critics, I don't share his skepticism. Let's look at his description of how most users interact with decentralized apps (dapps): For example, whether it’s running on mobile or the web, a dApp ...

Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how “crypto” used to mean “cryptography” than ...

Find a guide to integrate Stripe's payments APIs.

This essay is the second in a Gnosis Guild series by @keikreutler bridging cryptonetworks, web3, and gaming. The first essay Inventories, Not Identities focuses on collective, composable web3 identity.

Getting worse and getting better; Jesuits; common prosperity; Rossini's glittering realm; slow-casual chains; Lem's ocean; vowelsongs.