Regional American Food paints vivid tapestry of nation's cuisine | Boing Boing
Not that that tapestry is extremely flattering. If you live in the United States, your hometown more than likely has a strange, homegrown food tradition of its own—chili and cinnamon rolls, anyone?…
The Ayn Rand Lexicon: This mini-encyclopedia of Objectivism is
compiled from Ayn Rand’s statements on some 400 topics in philosophy,
economics, psychology and history.
The Extreme Shortage of High IQ Workers - Marginal REVOLUTION
At first glance it seems peculiar that semiconductors, a key item of national strategic interest, should be produced in only a few places in the world, most notably Taiwan, using devices produced only in Eindhoven in the Netherlands by one firm, ASML. Isn’t the United States big enough to be able to support all of […]
What the West Doesn’t Know About China’s Silicon Valley
Novelist Ning Ken’s history of Beijing’s Zhongguancun district shows how two generations of professors and tech entrepreneurs helped make the country more open.
As I type these words, a mass exodus is underway from Twitter and Facebook. After decades of eye-popping growth, these social media sites are contracting at an alarming rate. In some ways, this sho…
AI is here, and it can (or soon will) be able to draw, code, or write with more skill than most of us. It’s tireless, very fast and very cheap. Understandably, some creators are up in arms. T…
Today on TAP: Like the Jacobins and Stalinists of yore, today’s Republicans have extirpated their moderates and have no one left to execute besides themselves.
Civilian-Based Defense: A Post-Military Weapons System | ICNC
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In 1923, experts took a stab at making predictions about what life would be like in 100 years. These predictions included four-hour workdays, women with shaved heads, and a complete lack of ugly pe…
Plantation Logics at the NFL Combine - Anthropology News
At the annual NFL Scouting Combine, Black football players’ every movement is measured, quantified, and appraised. The event’s college-aged men are at the heart of football’s billion-dollar industry.