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How The Inca Used Knots To Tell Stories
How The Inca Used Knots To Tell Stories
The Inca are most often remembered not for what they had but for what they didn’t have: the wheel, iron, a written language. This third lack has given rise to a paradox, the Inca paradox. Could it …
·lithub.com·
How The Inca Used Knots To Tell Stories
The Steamboat Inventors: The First Generation
The Steamboat Inventors: The First Generation
Program Note: When last I posted, I said I was working on transforming The Backbone into a book. That work is still ongoing, but it’s taking longer than I expected to hammer the blog posts in…
·technicshistory.com·
The Steamboat Inventors: The First Generation
The Godfather almost never happened
The Godfather almost never happened
Francis Ford Coppola overcame 6 huge obstacles to make the classic film.
·trungphan.substack.com·
The Godfather almost never happened
Why Dark and Light is Complicated in Photographs
Why Dark and Light is Complicated in Photographs
This post describes some of the choices involved in photographic tone reproduction, that is, how bright or dim each part of a photo is.
·aaronhertzmann.com·
Why Dark and Light is Complicated in Photographs
The Rise and Fall of an American Tech Giant
The Rise and Fall of an American Tech Giant
Kodak changed the way Americans saw themselves and their country. But it struggled to reinvent itself for the digital age.
·theatlantic.com·
The Rise and Fall of an American Tech Giant
A Voracious Reader - DRB
A Voracious Reader - DRB
An intellectual biography of Joseph Stalin based on an analysis of what he read
·drb.ie·
A Voracious Reader - DRB
Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people — mcdreeamie-musings
Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people — mcdreeamie-musings
We’ve all sat in those presentations. A speaker with a stream of slides full of text, monotonously reading them off as we read along. We’re so used to it we expect it. We accept it. We even consider it ‘learning’. As an educator I push against ‘death by PowerPoint’ and I'm fascinated with how we
·mcdreeamiemusings.com·
Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people — mcdreeamie-musings
"The Use of Knowledge in Society" - Econlib
"The Use of Knowledge in Society" - Econlib
What is the problem we wish to solve when we try to construct a rational economic order? On certain familiar assumptions the answer is simple enough. If we possess all the relevant information, if we can start out from a given system of preferences, and if we command complete knowledge of available means, the problem […]
·econlib.org·
"The Use of Knowledge in Society" - Econlib
Beware What Sounds Insightful
Beware What Sounds Insightful
Why the Internet has driven writing to sound ever more insightful, how writers accomplish this, and what to do about it.
·commoncog.com·
Beware What Sounds Insightful
How Ikea tricks you into buying more stuff
How Ikea tricks you into buying more stuff
The home furnishings giant enlists a maze-like layout, cheap food, and crafty psychology to get you to fill up your cart.
·thehustle.co·
How Ikea tricks you into buying more stuff
Why Can’t We Agree On What’s True? | Dr. Ian O'Byrne
Why Can’t We Agree On What’s True? | Dr. Ian O'Byrne
This is not as simple as distrust. Digital platforms and ubiquitous access to these spaces have ushered in a new public mindset that ends in a refusal to accept any mainstream or official account of the world. This also includes being instinctively suspicious of anyone claiming to describe reality in a fair and objective fashion.
·wiobyrne.com·
Why Can’t We Agree On What’s True? | Dr. Ian O'Byrne
How Heinz uses a fake number to keep its brand timeless
How Heinz uses a fake number to keep its brand timeless
Heinz has been linked to the number 57 for more than a century. The company's "57 varieties" slogan was a key part of its early strategy to attract consumers. It's still featured on Heinz ketchup bottles today and is central to the brand's identity.
·edition.cnn.com·
How Heinz uses a fake number to keep its brand timeless
How a Book Is Made
How a Book Is Made
Have you ever wondered how a book becomes a book? Join us as we follow Marlon James’s “Moon Witch, Spider King” through the printing process.
·nytimes.com·
How a Book Is Made