[nonostantement #40] - mohamed bzeek / alive death masks / kenyans teaching to artificial intelligence
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The Man Who Turns Back New York City’s Clocks, Hand by Hand
"When daylight saving time begins and ends, it falls to Marvin Schneider, 79, New York’s official clock master, to reset some of the grandest public clocks in the city."office jungle break
"keep calm and listen to jungle"(In Italian) - Intervista a Franco Bolelli
"Perché il futuro è di chi costruisce e progetta, non di chi butta il proprio rancore sugli altri: Franco Bolelli racconta l’Italia del 2018 dai social media alla politica"GoFundMe: Mohamed Bzeek
"Mohamed has been a foster parent for over 20 years. He is the only foster parent in Los Angeles County who takes in terminally ill children. He has fostered more than 80 children."Trump Administration Publishes Doctored Footage to Ban Jim Acosta
"The Trump Administration used obviously doctored footage as an excuse to accuse CNN journalist Jim Acosta of assault and ban him from the White House"What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?
"New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine."LIMBO by Bill Domonkos
"LIMBO is an ambient video of 20 animated death/life masks from the Laurence Hutton Collection of Life and Death Masks."The 3,000-year history of the hoodie | Small Thing Big Idea, a TED series
"The hoodie is a lot more than just a comfy sweatshirt. Design curator Paola Antonelli takes us through its history."TouchBase™ Collectible VC Trading Cards
"Collectible trading cards featuring Silicon Valley venture capitalists. Each pack comes with a mix of late-stage VCs, angel and seed investors, as well as an advisor or two."Half of YouTube viewers use it to learn how to do things they’ve never done
"A new Pew research study [...] found that 51 percent of YouTube users say they rely on the video service to figure out how to do new things"Bill Gates brandishes poo to showcase reinvented toilet tech
"Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates had his hands full on-stage in Beijing on Tuesday, showing a jar of human faeces."In the Age of A.I., Is Seeing Still Believing?
"Advances in digital imagery could deepen the fake-news crisis—or help us get out of it."(In Italian) - Storie di Migranti
"La convivenza fra settentrionali e meridionali ha determinato sensibili mutamenti sociologici: hanno ripreso vigore i vecchi pregiudizi, come la scarsa voglia di lavorare di taluni immigrati, a parere dei settentrionali. L'opinione comune addossa le difficoltà della situazione meridionale all'indole delle persone che vi abitano."Why Big Tech pays poor Kenyans to teach self-driving cars
"To pay normal wages would distort local labour markets. If we were to pay people substantially more than that, we would throw everything off. That would have a potentially negative impact on the cost of housing, the cost of food in the communities in which our workers thrive."
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