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Weekly Dose of Optimism #143

3 months ago

from Not Boring by Packy McCormick in creative

Pope Leo, Techno-Industrial Playbook, Stripe, Vulcan Robots, Natural Short Sleep, MenB Vaccine, Ezra

Weekly Scroll: New Popes and Cooked Kids

3 months ago

from Infinite Scroll in creative

Plus! Meme Wars and 16th Century TMZ

Hallucinations are not the same as errors

3 months ago

from Seth's Blog in creative

I asked my AI about some obsolete card games, and it wrote a 1,000 word essay about Lansquenet. It made up the rules, the strategies, the betting...

How a Student’s Phone Call Averted a Skyscraper Collapse: The Tale of the Citicorp Center

3 months ago

from Open Culture in creative

The Citigroup Center in Midtown Manhattan is also known by its address, 601 Lexington Avenue, at which it’s been standing for 47 years, longer than...

Good-boss friendly

3 months ago

from Seth's Blog in creative

Workers have rarely gotten the long end of the stick. The seduction of “do what you’re told and you’ll win valuable prizes” often doesn’t hold up to...

How Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton & Harold Lloyd Pulled Off Their Spectacular Stunts During Silent Film’s Golden Age

3 months ago

from Open Culture in creative

It can be tempting to view the box office’s domination by visual-effects-laden Hollywood spectacle as a recent phenomenon. And indeed, there have been...

Have Movies Stopped Killing Their Main Character? A Statistical Analysis

3 months ago

from Stat Significant in creative

A data-driven investigation of movie hero mortality rates

The Weak Men of MAGA

3 months ago

from Infinite Scroll in creative

How Weak Men create Hard Times

Mind reading

3 months ago

from Seth's Blog in creative

It’s thrilling when someone reads our minds. Sometimes we call it hospitality, or smart user interface design. Sometimes, it simply feels like being...

Take a 3D Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel & Explore Michelangelo’s Masterpieces Up Close

3 months ago

from Open Culture in creative

Today, 133 cardinals from around the world enter the conclave to determine the next pope, during which they’ll cast their votes in the Sistine Chapel....

Crisis PR for Dummies

3 months ago

from Infinite Scroll in creative

You too can avoid being cancelled!

Tools and the long tail

3 months ago

from Seth's Blog in creative

Have you ever made a video that was seen by someone you didn’t know? Or written something that got shared outside of your inner circle? The odds of...

A Japanese Zen Monk Explains What Zen Is Really About

3 months ago

from Open Culture in creative

Despite developing in Asia, as the Chinese form of a religion originally brought over from India and later refined in Japan, Zen Buddhism has long...

Seeking yoyu 余裕

3 months ago

from Seth's Blog in creative

There are two ways of thinking about doing more than is necessary. It can become a really useful marketing tactic. When you deliver more than people...

See Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring in 3D in a New 108-Gigapixel Scan

3 months ago

from Open Culture in creative

You may believe that you’ve had a close enough view of Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring. You may have gone to The Hague and seen the...

Sorting and choosing

3 months ago

from Seth's Blog in creative

One is far more important than the other. Sorting puts our options into two piles. One pile is the don’t-like, not-good-enough or wrong stack. These...

Weekly Scroll: Powerful Group Chats

3 months ago

from Infinite Scroll in creative

Plus! Every kind of AI - sycophantic, predatory and unethical!

Seriously

3 months ago

from Seth's Blog in creative

One way to deal with a changing world and new problems is to take yourself very seriously, others not so much. The other way is to take the situation...

Podcast - The Culture War and MAGA ft. Cartoons Hate Her

3 months ago

from Infinite Scroll in creative

How did weird online battles over gender lead to the tariff policies we're seeing today?

Weekly Dose of Optimism #142

3 months ago

from Not Boring by Packy McCormick in creative

Neuralink, Joby, Distributed AI, Diabetes Down Under, Hill & Valley

Was William Shakespeare’s Marriage Closer—and Less Estranged—Than We Thought?: A 17th-Century Letter Changes What We Know About the Bard’s Life.

3 months ago

from Open Culture in creative

Image via Hereford Cathedral and Hereford Mappa Mundi Trust At this point, every aspect of William Shakespeare’s life has produced more speculation...

The biggest thing you bring to the project is forward

3 months ago

from Seth's Blog in creative

Forward motion is an asset, a skill and a job title. Elevators used to need elevator operators. They didn’t go anywhere unless someone got on and...

How Eyes Evolved: A Fascinating Tour Through the Animal Kingdom

3 months ago

from Open Culture in creative

Above, Lars Schmitz, a professor at Claremont McKenna College, guides us “through a giant tree of life mapping the evolution of eyes in the animal...

Hyperlegible 008: Golden Age with Mike Solana

3 months ago

from Not Boring by Packy McCormick in creative

Turning (Parts of) America into Rare Earth Metals Processing Disney World®

Every tactic…

3 months ago

from Seth's Blog in creative

Has a strategy behind it. Often unsaid, undiscussed and hidden. It’s easier to simply play with the tactic of the moment. Tell me what your tactic is...

Stream Online Monty Python and the Holy Grail Free on Its 50th Anniversary

3 months ago

from Open Culture in creative

This year, YouTube celebrated its twentieth anniversary, prompting younger users to wonder what life could have been like before it. The fiftieth...

Meet the Maker: Rosie Mclay

3 months ago

from Handprinted - Blog in creative

I'm Rosie, a 32 year old female artist who is mostly from Bristol but can't decide whether to live in Bristol or the Welsh borders so is a bit all...

What Are the Greatest Karaoke Songs of All Time? A Statistical Analysis

3 months ago

from Stat Significant in creative

Which songs dominate karaoke night?

Uncomfortable ideas

3 months ago

from Seth's Blog in creative

The ideas aren’t uncomfortable, we are. You don’t have to like the weather to acknowledge that it’s raining.

The Heavy-Metal Band Disturbed Covered Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” Ten Years Ago, and It’s Still Topping the Charts

3 months ago

from Open Culture in creative

“The Sound of Silence” Is the Most Metal Song of the Past Decade”: imagine that headline, and the contrarian culture piece practically writes itself....

2024.04.14

3 months ago

from John Reynolds - Designer & Creative Director in creative

2024.04.14

Chaos is a Ladder

3 months ago

from Not Boring by Packy McCormick in creative

Vertical Integrators: Part V

Cooking with Dom DeLuise

3 months ago

from Haterade in creative

The dream of the ‘90s is alive and portly

More alternatives, please

3 months ago

from Seth's Blog in creative

There are two ways for an artisan or professional to see the world: Scarcity. This is the idea that if there were fewer photographers, more people...

Old Art is Strangling New Art

3 months ago

from Infinite Scroll in creative

Why is older content dominating every artistic field?

Hyperlegible 007: 50 Things Brian Potter Has Learned Writing Construction Physics

3 months ago

from Not Boring by Packy McCormick in creative

Things are almost always more complicated than they seem.

Weekly Scroll: YouTube's AI Problem

3 months ago

from Infinite Scroll in creative

Plus! Vibe Shift Reversal and Dr Pepper Guy

Weekly Dose of Optimism #141

3 months ago

from Not Boring by Packy McCormick in creative

Building Civilizations, Nuclear Moon, Physical Intelligence, Argentina, Creatine

Powerlessness

3 months ago

from Seth's Blog in creative

Not a lack of power, but feeling as though we have none. Some people have been indoctrinated to prefer a life with no agency, as it also brings no...

Miles Davis’ Album On the Corner Tried to Woo Young Rock & Funk Fans: First Considered a Disaster, It’s Now Hailed as a Masterpiece

3 months ago

from Open Culture in creative

Miles Davis didn’t put out any studio albums from 1973 until the middle of 1981. In explaining the reasons for this lacuna in his recording career,...

Simple and painless productivity

3 months ago

from Seth's Blog in creative

On the factory floor, productivity increases are relentlessly implemented, often without regard for worker satisfaction. For people working with a...

The Roman Colosseum Deconstructed: 3D Animation Reveals the Hidden Technology That Powered Rome’s Great Arena

3 months ago

from Open Culture in creative

Most tourists in Rome put the Colosseum at the top of their to-see list. (My own sister-in-law, soon to head out on her Italian honeymoon, plans to...

Podcast: What should we do about sports betting? ft. Isaac Rose Berman

3 months ago

from Infinite Scroll in creative

As a follow up to my article from a few weeks ago Should We Ban Gambling on Smartphones?, I’ve invited Isaac Rose-Berman on the show to talk about...

Technical debt and AI slop

3 months ago

from Seth's Blog in creative

Technical debt is easy to incur. It’s unnecessary added features, undocumented code, support for outmoded interactions and anything that slows down...

How Zaha Hadid Revolutionized Architecture & Drew Inspiration from Russian Avant-Garde Art

3 months ago

from Open Culture in creative

Zaha Hadid died in 2016, at the age of 65. She certainly wasn’t old, by the standards of our time, though in most professions, her best working years...

Good instincts

3 months ago

from Seth's Blog in creative

Sometimes, in the absence of data or useful experience, we’re left to act on our instincts. It’s worth noting that other people have instincts as...

James Joyce, With His Eyesight Failing, Draws a Sketch of Leopold Bloom (1926)

3 months ago

from Open Culture in creative

James Joyce had a terrible time with his eyes. When he was six years old he received his first set of eyeglasses, and, when he was 25, he came down...

Weekly Scroll: A Time To Kill

3 months ago

from Infinite Scroll in creative

Globe Emojis Gone Viral and Le Poisson Steve

Work ethic vs discipline

3 months ago

from Seth's Blog in creative

A solid work ethic drives someone to show up, even when they’d rather not. If there’s work on their desk, they’ll take it on. Discipline, on the other...

The void will consume us and it'll be dank - Minionotics at Weatherproof

3 months ago

from Blog - Mac Pierce in creative

A review of the group show Minionotics (March 13th - April 13th, 2025) at Weatherproof Gallery in Chicago.