Bolzano Journal Who Killed the Iceman? Clues Emerge in a Very Cold Case A reconstruction of the Iceman in the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy. Credit... Dmitry Kostyukov for The Ne
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Vol. 39 No. 6 · 16 March 2017 Women in Power Mary Beard Share on Facebook Share Email 4971 words Listen to this piece read bythe author I n 1915 Charlotte Perkins Gilman published a funny but unsett
A year ago, Noah Weiss started up Slack’s Search, Learning, and Intelligence (SLI) team and New York office , interviewing candidates and working from coffee shops all over the city. Now he leads a te
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Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images If you live in an American city, and have disposable income, Uber has likely revolutionized how you get around. The app, which more or less invented — and no
Since retiring after 33 years on the late night television, David Letterman has kept a low public profile — aided by the growth of a truly impressive beard . But that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been as fi
Published in Prototypr · 7 min read · Feb 27, 2017 -- Products that meet goals with a minimum of hassle and intrusion seem almost magical to users. Under the everyday pressure and time constraints, we
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Modern Love You May Want to Marry My Husband Credit... Brian Rea Note: Amy Krouse Rosenthal died on March 13, 2017, 10 days after this essay was published. You can read her obituary here . In June, 20
Who already knows me, most likely knows my good old post entitled: The DOM Is NOT Slow, Your Abstraction Is . Beside my little 2015 rant against over bloated libraries, capable of doing a lot but not
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At 16, Martin Winiecki dropped out of school and left his home in the German city of Dresden to live full-time at Tamera, a 300-acre intentional community in the rolling hills of southwestern Portugal
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Published in Agility Scales (archived) · 8 min read · Feb 26, 2017 -- Are you thinking about implementing Holacracy? Don’t do it! Are you planning to copy the “Spotify model”? Hold it right there! Are
In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one note had been composed by a
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As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my time at Uber was like. It's a stra
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6 min read · Jan 6, 2017 -- (This short essay is based on a talk I gave recently at MIT’s Future of People Conference) Earlier this year Uber made the first-ever autonomous delivery truck shipment in
Even before he arrived at the accident scene, sergeant Matt Smith knew it would be bad. Smith was in charge of the 12-person police department in Mossman, a speck of a town located along Australia’s r