Quite a variety this time around. Let’s get started: Article: “The Decline of Wikipedia” by Tom Simonite Years ago, it was famously easy to edit a Wikipedia article— that was one of the things that made it so unreliable as a source of information. The people who run Wikipedia responded to that problem by making …
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Recommendations for June 1, 2013
A day late again, but oh well. Some really good stuff this week. Photos: The National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest from The Atlantic’s In Focus blog. No surprise here, but there are some really astonishing photos in this competition. My personal favorite is below, but it was a tough call, and I am glad …
Recommendations for May 10, 2013
A couple of good, and very different, things to read this week, and then some new music. Book Excerpt: Octopus: The Footed Void by Caspar Henderson It turns out octopuses are really fascinating. (And no, the plural is not “octopi”— the root is Greek, not Latin. Henderson uses “octopods,” which may be the more correct …