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Vemödalen - n. The fear that everything has already been done. 

8/15/2015

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John Koenig continues his series The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows with a real awful one. 

http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/
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The Road To Superintelligence

8/2/2015

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This intensely researched and humorously written article explores the hype and the facts (and the philosophy) surrounding the increasingly relevant debate concerning artificial intelligence. He takes a skeptical perspective, thankfully, but the conclusions are as concerning, if not more. 
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Real Fake Money

8/2/2015

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“The bills [we used] looked pretty god awful…we had 28 factors that were different -- they said “In Dog We Trust,” for instance -- but the Secret Service is very clear on their definition of counterfeiting. Honestly, if you followed their instructions, you may as well use Monopoly money. Feature films demand a certain bar of quality, so everyone is asked to break law in a sense by making prop money.”
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Apollo 17

8/2/2015

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I once heard someone say that maybe, had people known that this would end up being the last Moon mission on account of disinterest, maybe it wouldn't have been.

Here is a collection of highlight footage from the final twelve days of humanity on the Moon... for now.
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Toronto, circa the 1950s

8/2/2015

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There's a fatalistic joy to looking through old pictures, especially those we have some connection to. It's an encounter with our mortality. The mundane made sacred by perspective.
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