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Wagner Moura plays Pablo Escobar in the Netflix series “Narcos.” (Daniel Daza)
Sunday - August 30, 2015 Sun - 08/30/15
 
 
rantnrave:// Randoms as I'm sleep deprived: NETFLIX's desktop interface is beautiful... BONO spotlighting good in RWANDA... My old friend JOSH FELSER sent me some stuff from MELT to jumpstart well-being... Starting to see a lot of friends arrive at BURNING MAN. Eyeliner heavy... Thanks to pal BERTIS DOWNS for sending me some R.E.M. goodies to pass the days... Loving WAGNER MOURA in NARCOS. I was wrong, there are starts. He's huge in BRAZIL. Remember ELITE SQUAD?... Thank you to TIME WARNER CABLE's PETER STERN and their field team for helping get my broadband issues fixed in LA while I'm homebound for a bit. Got this military looking bad boy to optimize my 300Mbps plan.... THE WOLF OF BEANIE BABIES... Happy Birthday to pals JASON SHELLEN, JAMIE TISCH, JORDAN LEVIN, GARY GINSBURG and BETH COMSTOCK... GRATITUDE OF THE DAY: MADELINE LERMAN, RN, BSN - Patient Relations Representative at CEDAR SINAI who help shepherd me through the maze and answered all my questions...
- Jason Hirschhorn, curator
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Quanta Magazine
A Life in Games
by Siobhan Roberts
John Horton Conway claims to have never worked a day in his life. This adaptation from the biography Genius at Play shows how serious advances such as the surreal numbers can spring out of fun and games.
The Huffington Post
Netflix, Binging And Quality Control In The Age Of Peak TV
by Maureen Ryan
Giving creatives freedom is a good thing, but is there too much of a good thing right now?
TechCrunch
Baby, We Won’t Drive Our Cars: The Future Of Automotive Transportation
by Phil Carter
Earlier this summer, Trinity had the pleasure of hosting a Transportation Tech dinner with some of the brightest minds in the space, including Uber's lead data scientist, Lyft's leader of operations strategy, RelayRides' head of marketing, and the CEOs of ZIRX, MileIQ, Chariot, and Automatic.
Medium
A Roadmap for a World Without Drivers
by Alex Rubalcava
Recently, a number of analysts have written thoughtful pieces about the future of mobility in a world of self-driving cars. Often, the projections assume that most cars will transition to electric motors over time, replacing the internal combustion engine.
Aeon Magazine
We Are Sacrificing The Right To Walk
by Antonia Malchik
In Orwellian fashion, Americans have been stripped of the right to walk, challenging their humanity, freedom and health
The Guardian
Rain is sizzling bacon, cars are lions roaring: the art of sound in movies
by Jordan Kisner
Skip Lievsay is one of the most talented men in Hollywood. He has created audioscapes for Martin Scorsese and is the only sound man the Coen brothers go to. But the key to this work is more than clever effects, it is understanding the human mind.
Vulture
How Did a Show Like Mr. Robot End Up on USA?
by Josef Adalian
Here's one big mystery that won't be resolved by the season-one finale of Mr. Robot, set to air next Wednesday: How in Monk's name did a show so complex, twisted - and critically acclaimed - end up on USA Network?
Wired
Who Won Science Fiction’s Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters
by Amy Wallace
Since 1953, to be nominated for a Hugo Award, among the highest honors in science fiction and fantasy writing, has been a dream come true for authors who love time travel, extraterrestrials and tales of the imagined future. Past winners of the rocket-shaped trophy-nominated and voted on by fans-include people like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Harlan Ellison, Philip K. Dick, and Robert A. Heinlein. In other words: the Gods of the genre.
The Daily Beast
Has Jewish Music Star Matisyahu Got a Middle East Problem?
by Emily Shire
After refusing to kowtow to a demand he advocate Palestinian statehood, the Jewish reggae hip-hop artist says he is a proponent for peace and ‘building bridges.’
GQ
How Sugar Daddies Make It Happen
by Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Jessica Craig-Martin
Do you ever see a super-old, super-rich guy out on the town with a super-young girl who's super out of his league and wonder, how the hell did that happen? This is how it happened. Taffy Brodesser-Akner investigates the bold new transactional-love economy
yéyo
CBSSports.com
WWE in 1985: An Oral History
by Denny Burkholder
From Wrestlemania to MTV music videos, here's the story of wwe's most evolutionary year ever, as told by the performers who lived it..
FiveThirtyEight
Public Transit Should Be Uber’s New Best Friend
by Nate Silver and Reuben Fischer-Baum
If Uber is worth its $50 billion valuation, it will have to do more than win over the market historically occupied by the taxi and limo industry -it will have to identify new types of customers.
The Kernel
A week in the life of one of fantasy football’s most trusted experts
by Josh Katzowitz
Dave Richard's rise from living with his parents to being among fantasy football's most trusted experts began with a girl. It was 1999, and Richard, 23, had just graduated from the University of Miami and was back in his parents' Chicago-area home, running an online sports memorabilia business and trying to figure out his life.
The Daily Beast
U.S. Pays for Scientology ‘Experiment’ on Sick Veterans
by Brandy Zadrozny
Thanks to taxpayer dollars, a research team is testing L. Ron Hubbard’s controversial ‘purification’ theories on veterans suffering from Gulf War Syndrome.
Bloomberg View
How Hugo Chavez Trashed Latin America's Richest Economy
by Justin Fox
When Hugo Chavez was first took office as Venezuela's president in 1999, the country wasn't exactly anybody's economic model. Great oil riches had been squandered, repeatedly. Inflation was a recurrent problem -- it had topped 100 percent in 1996. The economy wasn't growing much. Almost half the population was below the country's poverty line.
Priceonomics
What Are the Worst Airports in the World?
by Priceonomics
Airports are a tempest of emotions. They can be the source of deep frustration due to long lines, security, and . But they are also a place where one can be with family members and friends, or even find (at least, in our cultural imagination). Of course, not all airports are the same.
Scientific American
How Does a Gymnast--Or Even a Fitness Walker--Keep From Falling?
by Gary Stix
Kathleeen Cullen jokes that when she was studying electrical engineering at Brown University during the 1980s, she heard a rumor that neurons use electricity. That prompted her to take a course on the brain that convinced her to major in neuroscience as well as electrical engineering.
The Guardian
Non-stop action: why Hollywood’s ageing heroes won’t give up
by Adam Mars-Jones
Shootouts and fist-fights are no longer a young man’s game. Hollywood is rebranding ageing actors as action heroes – but it still discards older women
BuzzFeed
The Troubled Resurrection Of Black America's Historic Beach Haven
by John Stanton
WAVELAND, Mississippi - Although her family moved around southern Mississippi, for Genevieve Gordon, the summers in Waveland, and the promise of relaxing on a real beach with the ocean stretching out limitlessly in front of her, were a constant. "It was a very safe place.
The Marshall Project
When Prisons Need to Be More Like Nursing Homes
by Maura Ewing
Finding new ways to treat the growing pool of older, ailing inmates.
Nautilus
Parenthood, the Great Moral Gamble
by Claire Creffield
The decision to have a child is more ethically uncertain than you might realize.
Deadline
Luc Besson Q&A: His Wildly Ambitious ‘Valerian’ & Why EuropaCorp’s RED Launch Isn’t Harmed By Relativity Woes
by Mike Fleming Jr
EXCLUSIVE: Luc Besson has long held a comfortable identity as France's answer to Spielberg, an idea generator who hatches commercial hits. From Paris, he and EuropaCorp partner Christophe Lambert built a powerhouse company on Besson's imagination that has fueled a long string of moderately budgeted Euro-flavored thrillers that do big global business.
Eater National
The 23 Most Anticipated Food Halls in the Country
by Whitney Filloon
Food halls are spreading from coast to coast like wildfire. Long a tradition in Europe and other parts of the world, the multi-faceted, typically indoor markets showcasing a variety of local food vendors and artisans are finally hitting it big in America. As many as 23 food halls are poised to open across the country, but why now?
The New Yorker
Inside the Fight Over Bitcoin’s Future
by Maria Bustillos
A terrific rumpus broke out in the world of Bitcoin last week, when veteran developers Gavin Andresen and Mike Hearn published Bitcoin XT, a competing version of Bitcoin Core, the open-source program that generates new bitcoins, verifies all transactions, and records them on the massive distributed ledger known as the blockchain.
TechCrunch
Meet Joelle Emerson, The Startup CEO Helping Slack, Pinterest And Airbnb Tackle Diversity
by Megan Rose Dickey
Diversity in the tech industry is dismal, with white men making up the vast majority of its workforce. That being said, tech companies are aware of the lack of diversity and some are even actively taking steps to do something about it.
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Showtime at the Apollo
I Know You Got Soul (Live)
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