A Quagmire of Epic Proportions.
Me: The self-proclaimed perfectionist. My interest in the arts and sciences complements.
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WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg confessed to feeling conflicted about one of the blogging service’s upcoming features: Notifications.
Mullenweg said he’s concerned that Silicon Valley is creating products that are so engaging that they’re also incredibly distracting, to the detriment of creativity and productivity.
He fretted that some of these socially disruptive technologies might be “morally destitute.” He has been preoccupied with the question: “Is Silicon Valley destroying the world?”
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“We’re not a team; we’re a time bomb.” - The Avengers (2012)
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Rewritable digital data stored in live DNA
“It took us three years and 750 tries to make it work, but we finally did it,” says Jerome Bonnet, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, who worked with graduate student Pakpoom Subsoontorn and assistant professor Drew Endy to reapply natural enzymes adapted from bacteria to flip specific sequences of DNA back and forth at will.
In practical terms, they have devised the genetic equivalent of a binary digit—a “bit” in data parlance. “Essentially, if the DNA section points in one direction, it’s a zero. If it points the other way, it’s a one,”
Full Story: Futurity
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Actually laughing out loud. Happy Friday!
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Sad that there are folks who haven’t seen this film/read this book. Our review from Newsweek, April 2000:
Sofia Coppola’s directorial debut is based on the novel about five sisters whose lives (and deaths) transfix the neighborhood. The movie drags a bit and doesn’t entirely jell, but there are fine performances from Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett and James Woods, as well as many lovely, knowing images of adolescence and the ’70s.
Three StarsPlus an interview with Harnett one year later.
