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Automation and the middle class 27 Aug 2013 | 07:26 am
So David Autor and David Dorn have a piece in The New York Times this weekend about how technology is destroying middle class jobs and “polarizing” the workforce into high-wage and low-wage occupation...
Saturday night music - Bollywood edition 25 Aug 2013 | 04:49 am
In honor of India Fest:
The life you save may be your own 25 Aug 2013 | 04:30 am
Maybe there's a deeper reason for Americans' ill-health: Scientists have long surmised that moods affect health. But the underlying cellular mechanisms were murky until they began looking at gene-exp...
The Dark Side of Instant Communication 25 Aug 2013 | 01:48 am
We're constantly told that the digital world we have at our fingertips is the crowning achievement of our civilization. But what if it's incompatible with the good life? Indeed, tech anxiety abounds....
Our Jobs Are Mostly Bullshit 23 Aug 2013 | 06:47 am
The always-excellent David Graeber hits another home run talking about something we’ve raised here many times before: that many of our jobs are totally unnecessary, or even socially harmful. That our ...
Blogger Note 20 Aug 2013 | 03:54 am
Blogging’s been a little light lately and may get lighter – I’ve been swamped at work, have a side project going (some fun designs for Milwaukee’s oldest urban garden), and have managed to acquire som...
Architecure Is Not Sculpture - Continued 18 Aug 2013 | 09:28 pm
I hope my readers not interested in architecture will indulge me, because I'd like to explore this topic a bit further. This will be something of an addendum to my last post, and a grab-bag. Those not...
Architecture Is Not Sculpture 15 Aug 2013 | 05:46 am
Last week I was going to include this post somewhere which I ran across in The New York Times: Writers as Architects. As someone with a foot in both worlds, this article seemed especially relevant to ...
Map Porn 14 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
The Entire History of the World—Really, All of It—Distilled Into a Single Gorgeous Chart (Slate) The 5-foot long Histomap. They link to an evolutionary one too, although one with just human evolution ...
Who Invented Modernity? 11 Aug 2013 | 09:24 pm
Have you ever wondered why we work eight hours a day? Why not four, or seven, or one, or eighteen? If you’re an office worker, chances are you don’t have eight hours of work to do in a typical day. M...
