January
- In Caltech soccer league, there’s little brawn but plenty of brains #science #football #latimes
- Measuring the effects of partisanship on pie-eating #insight #economist
- ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is in the public domain. Rap version, anyone? #music #public_domain #law
- The Coolest Architecture on Earth Is in Antarctica #architecture #antarctica
- A world without pain #resilience #insight
- What Happens When Science Just Disappears? #science #insight #ideas
- American history textbooks can differ across the country, in ways that are shaded by partisan politics. #social_science #insight #education #partisan #politiks
- Time for the Human Screenome Project #science #insight #ideas #nature
- 36 Hours in Buenos Aires #argentina #insight #nytimes
- How Design is Driving Ford to Reimagine What a Car Company Can Be #technology #insight #corporation #culture #organizational #bureocracy
- Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This #technology #insight #corporation #culture #apple
- What Happened to General Magic? Inside the company that invented the iPhone — two decades too early #technology #insight #corporation #invention #iphone
- The truth about hydration: should you drink eight glasses of water a day? #health #water #science #public_health
- The Art of Computer Typography #typography #insight #technology #evolution
- 'Impossible Architecture': Consider the impossible — find the visionaries #architecture #tadao_ando #japan_times #japan
February
- The invention of “Ethical AI” How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation #AI #insight #academia #law
- Banksy Is a Control Freak. But He Can’t Control His Legacy #Banksy #insight #academia #art
- Unique solution rolls in to help Muslims pray at Tokyo Games #religion #ancestry #japan_times #muslim #ideas #mobility
- Dystopian Silicon Valley and the Wisdom of Richard Hendricks #dystopian #insight #silicon_valley #ideas #the_information
- Satellite images show how coronavirus brought Wuhan to a standstill #coronavirus #insight #health #satellite
- In the Race for Cheap Airfare, It’s You vs. the Machine #airlines #insight #nytimes #buying_patterns
- Everything You Think You Know About Housing Is Probably Wrong #gentrification #insight #nytimes
- The Zambian “afronaut” who wanted to join the space race #science #africa #moon #space-race #newyorker
- Beyond Architecture, a Builder of Lusty Fantasies #insight #architecture #europe #graphicalia
- Kawasaki confronts its gentrification #insight #gentrification #japan #urban_planning #japan_times
- Why do we cry – and what can we learn from our tears? #insight #the_guardian
- What four years at sea taught me about our relationship to the ocean #insight #the_guardian #ocean #water
- How the Arabic Alphabet Inspired Abstract Art #insight #art #arab #nytimes
- Paraguay’s Response to Modernist Architecture? Clay, Mud and Timber #insight #architecture #paraguay #timber
- The Unexpectedly Tropical History of Brutalism #insight #architecture #brazil #brutalism #le_corbusier
- Aiming for Accessibility: Barrier-Free App Developer - Yuriko Oda #disabilities #japan #app-developing #altruism
March
- What can my brain tell me about the music I listen to #music #UK #science #experiment #brain
- The invisible city: how a homeless man built a life underground #homeless #the_guardian #experiment #insight
- An Artist Whose Muse Is Loneliness #art #nytimes #loneliness #insight
- The mystery of mountain lions #nature #science #ecology #brain #evolution
- The Miracle of Moving a Piano in New York City #piano #nytimes
- How Working-Class Life Is Killing Americans, in Charts #insight #nytimes #data_visualization #infographics
- Yoshi the turtle celebrates freedom with a record 22,000‑mile swim #nature #science #ecology #tortoise #yoshi
- What Would a World Without Prisons Look Like? #prison #insight #behaviourism #architecture
- How Coronavirus Hijacks Your Cells #heatlh #covid-19 #disease #process
- The Elephant Man review – David Lynch's tragic tale of compassion #cinema #disease #health #film #the_guardian
- Mapping the Social Network of Coronavirus #science #disease #health #tracking #network
- Music - Explained #music #insight #documentary #science
- Why the birds are the world's best engineers #birds #insight #engineer #science
- Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve” #covid-19 #insight #disease #science
- Feeling Good About Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior #egocentrism #insight #charitable #science
- Designing a solar lamp for the rural Cambodian people #ideas #insight #cambodia #rural
- How the Virus Got Out. The most extensive travel restrictions to stop an outbreak in human history haven’t been enough. We analyzed the movements of hundreds of millions of people to show why #data-visualization #covid-19 #nytimes
- Odorama, historia cultural del olor #ideas #insight #odor #culture
- In the Battle Against Coronavirus, Humanity Lacks Leadership #ideas #insight #yuval_harari
- El drama de vivir sin sentir olores #ideas #insight #science #biology #odor
- The coronavirus isn’t alive. That’s why it’s so hard to kill #insight #science #covid-19 #washington_post
- ¿Para qué sirve el silencio? #insight #ideas #silence #el_país #health
- A message from MIT astronauts: Accept the mission and find your motivators #insight #ideas #MIT #social #health
- Canada mourns Takaya – the lone sea wolf whose spirit captured the world #insight #nature #wolf #the_guardian
- How the Pandemic Will End #insight #science #covid-19 #The_atlantic
- Dario Gil: "Luchamos contra coronavirus con un superordenador" #insight #science #covid-19 #bluemix #El_mundo
- How Genetic Mutations Turned the Coronavirus Deadly #insight #science #covid-19 #Nautil.us #gene #mutation
April
- Location Data Says It All: Staying at Home During Coronavirus Is a Luxury #ideas #insight #social_science #data_visualization #location #upper_class
- Dylan’s message? The answer, my friend, isn’t in this song #ideas #insight #music #financial_times
- First-wave COVID-19 transmissibility and severity in China outside Hubei after control measures, and second-wave scenario planning: a modelling impact assessment #covid #insight #health #the_lancet
- Lessons in constructive solitude from Thoreau #ideas #insight #nytimes #zen
- Mapping Armageddon - The Cartography of Ruin in Occupied Japan #cartography #insight #japan #war / David Fedman. 2015. “Mapping Armageddon - The Cartography of Ruin in Occupied Japan.” The Portolan, no. 92 (Spring): 7–29.
- Escenas de una pandemia de hace 1.500 años que se repiten hoy #pandemia #history #el_pais #paradox
- How Tesla and Waymo are tackling a major problem for self-driving cars: data #ideas #insight #ai #the_verge
- The Cure for Toxic Positivity #ideas #insights #psycology
- The Big Bang Is Hard Science. It Is Also a Creation Story. #ideas #insights #science #culture
- 'Will coronavirus change our attitudes to death? Quite the opposite' (Yuval Noah Harari) #ideas #insights #the_guardian #human_race
- Chimpanzees can do this, we (human beings) can’t) #ideas #insights #twitter #human_race
- Why Is A440 A Universal Tuning Standard? #music #insights #history
- Israel Shows Us the Future of Protest #covid-19 #protest #insight
- The Truth About Isaac Newton’s Productive Plague #isaac_newton #insight #productivity
- The Secret to Germany’s COVID-19 Success: Angela Merkel Is a Scientist #covid-19 #insight #the_atlantic
- The lockdown paradox: why some people's anxiety is improving during the crisis #insight #paradox #insight #the_guardian
May
- Clase Magistral de Mariano Llinás: El proceso creativo de "La flor" #cinematography #insight #creative_process
- Immigrants Have Always Known the Pain of Social Distancing #insight #inmigration #ariel_dorfman
- Google and Apple Reveal How Covid-19 Alert Apps Might Look #covid-19 #insight #science #technology
- IBM contributions during II Second World War #IBM #insight #history #cultural_heritage
- Ian Hislop picks Banksy hoax for British Museum dissent show #Banksy #insight #history #cultural_heritage #prank #british_museum
- For Decades, Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland’s Official Maps #cartography #switzerland #hidden_figures
- A Jazz Pianist Flips Bach Upside-Down #Bach #hacks #music
- Solo for Flute, Airport Terminal and One Listener #concert #airport #music #airport
- Egg Laying or Live Birth: How Evolution Chooses #nature #evolution
- How the coronavirus is changing science #covid-19 #science #vox
- How The Times Makes Visual Investigations | NYTimes #data-visualization #reconstruction #photogrammetry
- Taking Lessons From a Bloody Masterpiece #art #insight
- Wandering through Barrio Villa Inflamable -via Google Street View- #hacinamiento #social #state_of_the_art #Google_Street_View
- Igor Levit to play 20-hour Eric Satie piece as 'silent scream' #piano #insight #covid-19
June
- Yes, But Are They Happy? Effects of Trait Self‐Control on Affective Well‐Being and Life Satisfaction #science #insight #happiness
- Inside the Secret World of Russia’s Cold War Mapmakers #maps #russia #cartography #mapmakers #wired
- How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance #surveillance #security #wired
- Google Street View self-selfie #selfie #google #street_view
- How to Protest Without Sacrificing Your Digital Privacy #security #checklist #surveillance
- ‘Did I Miss Anything?’: A Man Emerges From a 75-Day Silent Retreat #mindfulness #buddhism #nytimes
- It’s not you. Phones are designed to be addicting #insight #addiction #friction_less #mobile #marketing
- Sudden Solitude on One of the World's Busiest Mountains #mountain #snowdon #nature #outside_magazine
- 'Everyone is in that fine line between death and life': inside Everest's deadliest queue #mountain #Everest #nature #guardian
- I Am Not Your Asian Stereotype #insight #asian #stereotype
- The Nessun Dorma effect: how Pavarotti cleaned up football and enraged opera purists #music #culture #insight #the_telegraph
- The statistical paradox of police killings #insight #paradox #politics #statistics
- The man who proved that altruism is selfish #insight #paradox #altruism #statistics #algorithm #mathematics
- How Discovering an Equation for Altruism Cost George Price Everything #insight #paradox #altruism #statistics #equation #algorithm #mathematics
- What If Working From Home Goes on … Forever? #home_office #culture #insight #working_culture
- Software is eating AI #AI #insight #ideas #software #paradox
- The end of tourism? #tourism #insight #ideas #culture #economics
- Some advice from Jeff Bezos #insight #ideas
- The book that invented the world #insight #ideas #history #cartography
- Small island #slavery #ideas #history #theater
- Japan university awards first-ever ninja studies degree #ninja #Ph.D. #history #japan
- Original screenplay of movie "Parasite" #parasite #movie #screenplay
July
- Berlin 1945 und heute #photojournalism #juxtaposition #war
- Eric Laithwaite and his forgotten Doctor Who script #science #script #history
- Professor Eric Laithwaite: Magnetic River (1975) #science #imperial_College #magnetism
- America’s Enduring Caste System #racism #insight #caste #social_science
- A Mathematician’s Guide to How Contagion Spreads #covid #insight #maths
- Professor Eric Laithwaite's prototype metal sorter #invention #insight #science
- The Real Story Behind the Apollo 11 Computer Error #washington_post #science #error
- The Robert Louis Stevenson musical archives #music #poetry
- Can anyone describe Kobe's work ethic? #work #ethics
- How Nespresso's coffee revolution got ground down #insight #coffee
- Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Man of Music and Gentleman-at-Arms: The Life and Times of an Eighteenth-Century Prodigy #history #music
- Why the richest country in the world has one of the world’s highest rates of infection #mit #culture #anthropology #insight
- Botswana Innovation Hub #architecture #africa
August
- There's a World Living on Every Loggerhead #turtle #darwin #science
- The COVID Racial Data Tracker #covid #race #science #data_visualization #insights
- Operating in Unpredictability #musician #music #creativity #insights
- A Radical New Model of the Brain Illuminates Its Wiring #science #mind #wired #insights
- The Problem With the Way Scientists Study Reason #science #reason #insight
- Is Resilience Overrated? #resilience #insights
- How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering #racism #insight #social_sciences
- Banksy art's paradox #Banksy #paradox #art
- ‘Interstellar’s’ sonic soup or: How auteurs diss their audiences #interstellar #insight #music
- Why Interstellar's Organ Needs to Be So Loud #interstellar #music #sound #organ #the_atlantic
September
- When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer #arts #insight #history #merce #cage
- How philanthropy benefits the super-rich #philanthropy #insight #economics #social_science
- The Black Violinist Who Inspired Beethoven #music #violinist #nytimes #musicology
- Und ob ich tanze! (You bet I dance! #dis-abilities #dance #documentary #disease #movement #education
- The Wubi Effect #china #language #history #汉语拼音 #characters
October
- If DNA is like software, can we just fix the code? #disease #insight #dna #MIT #technology_review
- Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano #music #piano
- How Can Chaos Lead To Creative Breakthroughs? #music #piano #creation #creativity #odds #keith_jarrett
- The Music of 'The Queen's Gambit' #music #insight #anya
- How magnetic oscillations of a comet became a new album of music #music #insight #science
- Exploring the Mind of a Musical Genius with Derek Paravicini and Dr. Adam Ockelford #music #insight #science #savant #resilience #disease #syndrome
- Brain Man: The Boy With The Incredible Brain #savant #synesthesia #syndrome
November
- The anthropology of mobile phones #anthropology #insight #social_sciences #mobile
- The Woman Who Built Beethoven’s Pianos #music #history #piano
- The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End #science #paradox #physics
- The Last True Hermit Was Alone for 27 Years #hermit #solitude #documentary
- These Researchers Tested Positive. But the Virus Wasn’t the Cause #paradox #science #covid-19 #DNA
- Yo-Yo Ma and the Meaning of Life #music #insight #bach #cultural_appropriation
- How Archaeologists Are Using Deep Learning to Dig Deeper #science #artificial_intelligence
- Meet the Microbes Living on Da Vinci’s Iconic Sketches #microbes #science #Leonardo #wired
December
- Exploring Silence #science #Imperial_College #workshop #buddhism
- The Social Life of Forests #science #nature
- Le sel de la terre #documentary #photography #nature #sebastiao_salgado
- What We Can Learn From Solitude #silence #nature #solitude #insight
- Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain #music #disease #mind #insight #sacks
- Selflessness on Cerro Torre - Success, injury, and salvation on "an impossible mountain" #altruism #Cerro_Torre #mountain #patagonia