Arriva la Coca-Cola con le fibre. In Giappone, perlomeno
Money quote: "Most of Coca-Cola's reformulations have created successful new beverage brands simply by cutting sugar or calories from pre-existing drinks. For example, the company reported that the revamped Coca-Cola Zero Sugar experienced double-digit growth in the last quarter, after growing 9% by volume in 2016"
http://www.businessinsider.com/coca-cola-with-fiber-reveals-soda-revamp-2017-4?IR=T
Money quote: "Most of Coca-Cola's reformulations have created successful new beverage brands simply by cutting sugar or calories from pre-existing drinks. For example, the company reported that the revamped Coca-Cola Zero Sugar experienced double-digit growth in the last quarter, after growing 9% by volume in 2016"
http://www.businessinsider.com/coca-cola-with-fiber-reveals-soda-revamp-2017-4?IR=T
Business Insider
Coke is now adding fiber to drinks to try and convince people to buy soda again
Coca-Cola Plus rolled out in Japan in February. The drink is sugar-free, calorie-free, and contains 5 grams of dietary fiber in each bottle.
Come ha scoperto anche Donald Trump quando glielo ha spiegato il presidente cinese Xi, la storia della Corea è un po' più complicata di come ce la raccontiamo. Non solo per la secolare tradizione e il regno, etc etc, ma anche solo per quello che è successo prima della rivoluzione. Ad esempio, mezzo secolo di presenza americana (tra gli altri) per evangelizzare i nativi.
Money quote: "This long-lost mission, almost unknown even to Korea experts on both sides of the Pacific, was part of a pre-Second World War American Christian presence in Korea that achieved its greatest success in Pyongyang. The current capital was then the home of the largest Christian community in Korea and the center of the Presbyterian Church in Asia."
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/american-pyongyang-missionaries-north-korea
Money quote: "This long-lost mission, almost unknown even to Korea experts on both sides of the Pacific, was part of a pre-Second World War American Christian presence in Korea that achieved its greatest success in Pyongyang. The current capital was then the home of the largest Christian community in Korea and the center of the Presbyterian Church in Asia."
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/american-pyongyang-missionaries-north-korea
Atlas Obscura
The Forgotten American Missionaries of Pyongyang
In the decades before World War II, U.S. Christians created a "Jerusalem of the East."
Dal momento che viviamo nella snack culture, ecco lo spuntino di classicità quotidiana: leniamo le ferite del mal di vivere con un ardito paragone che sposti il bilancino della contemproaneità verso l'esperienza degli antichi saggi. Insomma, daje di Seneca e d'Epicuro...
Money quote: "Both the Stoics and the Epicureans valued the practice of virtue and the pleasures of life. The difference was one of priorities: the Epicureans, for instance, withdrew from political life because it was bound to cause pain (consider the recent US elections and you might sympathise). The Stoics, by contrast, would never trade moral rectitude for either the pursuit of pleasure or the avoidance of pain"
https://aeon.co/classics/massimo-pigliucci-on-senecas-stoic-philosophy-of-happiness
Money quote: "Both the Stoics and the Epicureans valued the practice of virtue and the pleasures of life. The difference was one of priorities: the Epicureans, for instance, withdrew from political life because it was bound to cause pain (consider the recent US elections and you might sympathise). The Stoics, by contrast, would never trade moral rectitude for either the pursuit of pleasure or the avoidance of pain"
https://aeon.co/classics/massimo-pigliucci-on-senecas-stoic-philosophy-of-happiness
Aeon
On the happy life
For the person who lives a virtuous life, of steadfastness and good judgment, happiness is always within reach
Siri è diventata attrice e recita i “Lego Batman - Il film”
Non è uscito sui giornali italiani ma nel film animato è stata per la prima volta scritturata una voce artificiale nel ruolo di se stessa. Dopo aver vinto il casting con Alexa di Amazon, Cortana di Microsoft e con quella di Google, è stata scritturata come assistente virtuale di Batman in Lego. È da giocare sull’ironia e la leggerezza, secondo me. Come Gallery, le voci di computer nella storia del cinema (da Hal 9000 in giù fino a C3P8 e R2D2 di Guerre Stellari)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/02/17/hello-siri-please-tell-us-about-your-feature-film-debut-in-lego-batman-movie/?utm_term=.77c359560235
Non è uscito sui giornali italiani ma nel film animato è stata per la prima volta scritturata una voce artificiale nel ruolo di se stessa. Dopo aver vinto il casting con Alexa di Amazon, Cortana di Microsoft e con quella di Google, è stata scritturata come assistente virtuale di Batman in Lego. È da giocare sull’ironia e la leggerezza, secondo me. Come Gallery, le voci di computer nella storia del cinema (da Hal 9000 in giù fino a C3P8 e R2D2 di Guerre Stellari)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2017/02/17/hello-siri-please-tell-us-about-your-feature-film-debut-in-lego-batman-movie/?utm_term=.77c359560235
Washington Post
- The Washington Post
Poesia. Poesia. Poesia. Voi quante poesie leggete? E quali? E quando? Qui, Roberto Corsi apre pian piano un nuovo cassetto della sua produzione...
Money quote: “psst… psst… sono filtrati titoli della prossima raccolta (quello della seconda sezione dovrebbe muovere a “risatazza immonda” (cit.) chi conosce le vicissitudini di questo blog) e un pugno di liriche.”
https://robertocorsi.wordpress.com/2017/04/27/corsileaks-inediti-su-imperfetta-ellisse/
Money quote: “psst… psst… sono filtrati titoli della prossima raccolta (quello della seconda sezione dovrebbe muovere a “risatazza immonda” (cit.) chi conosce le vicissitudini di questo blog) e un pugno di liriche.”
https://robertocorsi.wordpress.com/2017/04/27/corsileaks-inediti-su-imperfetta-ellisse/
Roberto R. Corsi
#CorsiLeaks – inediti su Imperfetta Ellisse
psst… psst… sono filtrati titoli della prossima raccolta (quello della seconda sezione dovrebbe muovere a “risatazza immonda” (cit.) chi conosce le vicissitudini di questo b…
Surreale intervento sulla Harvard Business Review del "vecchio" imprenditore del settore alberghiero (52 anni) assunto da AirBnB per portare esperienza e saggezza. Un'ode a se stesso piena di luoghi comuni e di una certa, abbondante misura di ego.
Money quote: "First, I quickly learned that I needed to strategically forget part of my historical work identity. The company didn’t need two CEOs, or me pontificating wisdom from the elder’s pulpit. More than anything, I listened and watched intently, with as little judgment or ego as possible. I imagined myself as a cultural anthropologist, intrigued and fascinated by this new habitat. Part of my job was to just observe. Often I would leave a meeting and discreetly ask one of my fellow leaders, who might be two decades younger than I was, if they were open to some private feedback on how to read the emotions in the room, or the motivations of a particular engineer, a little more effectively"
https://hbr.org/2017/04/i-joined-airbnb-at-52-and-heres-what-i-learned-about-age-wisdom-and-the-tech-industry
Money quote: "First, I quickly learned that I needed to strategically forget part of my historical work identity. The company didn’t need two CEOs, or me pontificating wisdom from the elder’s pulpit. More than anything, I listened and watched intently, with as little judgment or ego as possible. I imagined myself as a cultural anthropologist, intrigued and fascinated by this new habitat. Part of my job was to just observe. Often I would leave a meeting and discreetly ask one of my fellow leaders, who might be two decades younger than I was, if they were open to some private feedback on how to read the emotions in the room, or the motivations of a particular engineer, a little more effectively"
https://hbr.org/2017/04/i-joined-airbnb-at-52-and-heres-what-i-learned-about-age-wisdom-and-the-tech-industry
Harvard Business Review
I Joined Airbnb at 52, and Here’s What I Learned About Age, Wisdom, and the Tech Industry
The best young founders know they need mentors.
La propaganda nazista era talmente ben organizzata che si preoccupava anche di fornire giochi da tavolo ai fanciulli. Giochi di conquista e di sterminio, ovviamente.
Money quote: "Kenneth Rendell, the museum’s founder, says that Nazi power derived partly from such shrewd product design. Manufacturers applied symbols of anti-Semitism and death to toys, along with all manner of other household furnishings, from Christmas ornaments to lightbulb filaments. The racist objects, even if they never directly incited heinous acts, would have inured the owners to the prospect of violence all around them"
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nazi-board-games-wwii
Money quote: "Kenneth Rendell, the museum’s founder, says that Nazi power derived partly from such shrewd product design. Manufacturers applied symbols of anti-Semitism and death to toys, along with all manner of other household furnishings, from Christmas ornaments to lightbulb filaments. The racist objects, even if they never directly incited heinous acts, would have inured the owners to the prospect of violence all around them"
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nazi-board-games-wwii
Atlas Obscura
The Nazi Board Games of World War II
These relics of wartime propaganda and anti-Semitism were designed for playtime.
Articolo molto "basico" su come la tecnologia abbia cambiato la vita agli imprenditori. Poi parla un giornalista, ma va bene lo stesso. Da mandare ai vecchi nonni.
Money quote: "As a freelance journalist, I’ve always worked from home. Previously though, I had to borrow the work laptop, plug it into a modem and connect to the network via Remote Desktop. Now most places, I just jump on WiFi on my tablet, laptop or phone. All of which I can make notes on, or record interviews with. Using the cloud I can backup and protect my data, and collaborate with team members anywhere in the world"
https://www.virgin.com/entrepreneur/how-technology-has-transformed-entrepreneurs-lives-last-10-years
Money quote: "As a freelance journalist, I’ve always worked from home. Previously though, I had to borrow the work laptop, plug it into a modem and connect to the network via Remote Desktop. Now most places, I just jump on WiFi on my tablet, laptop or phone. All of which I can make notes on, or record interviews with. Using the cloud I can backup and protect my data, and collaborate with team members anywhere in the world"
https://www.virgin.com/entrepreneur/how-technology-has-transformed-entrepreneurs-lives-last-10-years
Virgin
How technology has transformed entrepreneurs' lives in the last 10 years
Il videogioco che tratta il problema della morte e dell'elaborazione del lutto. Interessante.
Money quote: ""We try to set the table and let players experience [death] for themselves," says creative director Ian Dallas when I ask about the team's approach. "Players already bring so much heaviness on their own that there's no need for us to add any. It would be redundant. Also, the less we suggest how we want or expect players to feel, the more room we open up for them to consider their own family history.""
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a-video-game-that-finally-engages-with-death-and-succeeds
Money quote: ""We try to set the table and let players experience [death] for themselves," says creative director Ian Dallas when I ask about the team's approach. "Players already bring so much heaviness on their own that there's no need for us to add any. It would be redundant. Also, the less we suggest how we want or expect players to feel, the more room we open up for them to consider their own family history.""
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a-video-game-that-finally-engages-with-death-and-succeeds
Motherboard
A Video Game That Finally Engages with Death and Succeeds
Facing personal loss and existential terror with a demo for the upcoming What Remains of Edith Finch.
Come Ibernare il Mac per sopravvivere alle mancanze di corrente e salvare batteria - il mio articolo per Macity
http://www.macitynet.it/come-ibernare-il-mac/
http://www.macitynet.it/come-ibernare-il-mac/
macitynet.it
Come Ibernare il Mac per sopravvivere alle mancanze di corrente e salvare batteria
Faq e Tutorial, Mac, MacOS, Tutorial Mac
Il problema tutto politico della scelta del tetto nella Berlino della mia gioventù
Money quote: “Flat roof advocates argued in the 1920s that they were less expensive to build and maintain, in addition to fitting in with Modernist ideas about minimalism and functionality, like using roofs as terraces. But the pitched roof partisans—including many nationalists—argued something entirely different: that flat roofs were a blight on traditional German architecture, or, as the critic Paul Schultze-Naumburg wrote, “immediately recognizable as the child of other skies and other blood.””
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-heated-highly-political-roof-war-that-captivated-berlin-before-world-war-ii
Money quote: “Flat roof advocates argued in the 1920s that they were less expensive to build and maintain, in addition to fitting in with Modernist ideas about minimalism and functionality, like using roofs as terraces. But the pitched roof partisans—including many nationalists—argued something entirely different: that flat roofs were a blight on traditional German architecture, or, as the critic Paul Schultze-Naumburg wrote, “immediately recognizable as the child of other skies and other blood.””
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-heated-highly-political-roof-war-that-captivated-berlin-before-world-war-ii
Atlas Obscura
In Pre-WWII Berlin, the Shape of Your Roof Was a Highly Political Decision
Modernists favored flat roofs, while conservatives preferred them pitched.
Presidenti degli Stati Uniti in zona di guerra: giubbotto antiproiettile oppure no? La risposta cambia tantissimo la percezione (e il consenso) del politico che si protegge. L’immagine conta. Talmente tanto che forse si capisce perché è venuto fuori Donald Trump. In questo pezzo interessante si spiegano un po’ di cose. Belle anche le immagini d’archivio.
Money quote: ”“You don’t put stuff on your head if you’re president,” President Obama told the US Naval Academy’s football team after they offered him a custom helmet. “That’s politics 101.””
http://www.racked.com/2017/4/25/15422992/flak-jacket-politicians-kushner
Money quote: ”“You don’t put stuff on your head if you’re president,” President Obama told the US Naval Academy’s football team after they offered him a custom helmet. “That’s politics 101.””
http://www.racked.com/2017/4/25/15422992/flak-jacket-politicians-kushner
Racked
The Political Impossibility of What to Wear With Your Flak Jacket
Jared Kushner is only the latest politico to look like a doof.
Il mastodonte ritrovato. Le tracce fossili. Una specie di homo che non conoscevamo. Forse è vero, forse ci hanno portato qui gli alieni?
Money quote: “Prehistoric humans — perhaps Neanderthals or another lost species — occupied what is now California some 130,000 years ago, a team of scientists reported on Wednesday.
The bold and fiercely disputed claim, published in the journal Nature, is based on a study of mastodon bones discovered near San Diego. If the scientists are right, they would significantly alter our understanding of how humans spread around the planet.
The earliest widely accepted evidence of people in the Americas is less than 15,000 years old. Genetic studies strongly support the idea that those people were the ancestors of living Native Americans, arriving in North America from Asia.
If humans actually were in North America over 100,000 years earlier, they may not be related to any living group of people. Modern humans probably did not expand out of Africa until 50,000 to 80,000 years ago, recent genetic studies have shown.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/science/prehistoric-humans-north-america-california-nature-study.html
Money quote: “Prehistoric humans — perhaps Neanderthals or another lost species — occupied what is now California some 130,000 years ago, a team of scientists reported on Wednesday.
The bold and fiercely disputed claim, published in the journal Nature, is based on a study of mastodon bones discovered near San Diego. If the scientists are right, they would significantly alter our understanding of how humans spread around the planet.
The earliest widely accepted evidence of people in the Americas is less than 15,000 years old. Genetic studies strongly support the idea that those people were the ancestors of living Native Americans, arriving in North America from Asia.
If humans actually were in North America over 100,000 years earlier, they may not be related to any living group of people. Modern humans probably did not expand out of Africa until 50,000 to 80,000 years ago, recent genetic studies have shown.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/science/prehistoric-humans-north-america-california-nature-study.html
NY Times
Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims (Published 2017)
If early humans smashed mastodon bones found in California in 1992, scientists will have to rethink how humans came to the Americas.
Lei si chiama Gina Pell e vi avevo detto che sarebbe stata un soggetto interessante. Questo è l’articolo sulle generazioni, anzi l’azzeramento delle generazioni (i “perennials) che vale la pena di leggere. Soprattutto oggi, visto che l’ideologia delle generazioni di Strass e Kahn (una cosa un po’ più complessa di quel che non sembri) è nell’orecchio e nel cuore dell’attuale vertice governativo americano
Money quote: “The term generation used to refer to parents and their offspring every 25 years. It wasn’t until the 19th Century that it mutated to describe the social cohort we are born into. The Baby Boomers (1946–1964) are the first and only officially recognized generation by the Census Bureau because of its clearly defined characteristics. Leap forward to 1991 in Generations by Strauss & Howe and the moniker Millennial is coined. It took another decade for marketers and the media to up-spin Millennials, whose birth years fall within the range of 1982-2004 as “the next greatest generation” and begin focusing all their efforts to woo these limelit consumers, voters, and likers. As for the rest, born before 1982, well, the rest is history … irrelevant and in the past.”
https://medium.com/the-what/meet-the-perennials-e91a7cd9f65f
Money quote: “The term generation used to refer to parents and their offspring every 25 years. It wasn’t until the 19th Century that it mutated to describe the social cohort we are born into. The Baby Boomers (1946–1964) are the first and only officially recognized generation by the Census Bureau because of its clearly defined characteristics. Leap forward to 1991 in Generations by Strauss & Howe and the moniker Millennial is coined. It took another decade for marketers and the media to up-spin Millennials, whose birth years fall within the range of 1982-2004 as “the next greatest generation” and begin focusing all their efforts to woo these limelit consumers, voters, and likers. As for the rest, born before 1982, well, the rest is history … irrelevant and in the past.”
https://medium.com/the-what/meet-the-perennials-e91a7cd9f65f
Medium
Meet the Perennials
Because age ain’t nothin’ but a number
Non lo so, ma io questo Wikitribune, il giornalismo basato sui fatti, devo vederlo funzionare per crederci
Money quote: "Wikitribune is led by Jimmy Wales who has surrounded himself with an amazing group of people to bring Wikitribune to life."
https://www.wikitribune.com/
Money quote: "Wikitribune is led by Jimmy Wales who has surrounded himself with an amazing group of people to bring Wikitribune to life."
https://www.wikitribune.com/
WikiTribune
The non-toxic social network
La sfortunata storia di Sam Caldwell e della sua solitaria e struggente opera di genio: la Sinotype: vecchie cose della Guerra fredda
Money quote: "Caldwell had not only invented the world’s first Chinese computer. He also unwittingly invented what we now know as ‘autocompletion’."
https://aeon.co/ideas/how-cold-war-rivalry-helped-launch-the-chinese-computer
Money quote: "Caldwell had not only invented the world’s first Chinese computer. He also unwittingly invented what we now know as ‘autocompletion’."
https://aeon.co/ideas/how-cold-war-rivalry-helped-launch-the-chinese-computer
Aeon
How Cold War rivalry helped launch the Chinese computer
The United States badly needed a Cold War win, so Samuel Caldwell went to work inventing the first Chinese computer
Chi era Robert M. Pirsig, morto a 88 anni qualche giorno fa
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/24/525443040/-zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-author-robert-m-pirsig-dies-at-88
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/24/525443040/-zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-author-robert-m-pirsig-dies-at-88
NPR
'Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' Author Robert M. Pirsig Dies At 88
Zen was published by William Morrow in 1974, after being rejected by 121 publishing houses. The book has endured as a work of popular philosophy, and inspired many a road trip across the West.
Ehi, il lavoro mi chiama: parto tra poco per andare a Boston e rientro a fine settimana. Il canale va avanti, ma in modalità più saltuaria. A tutti, buon primo maggio.
La biblioteca di Alessandria esiste, e la stiamo buttando a mare. Le norme sul copyright (delle quali adesso gli americani si raccontano essere vittime) hanno bloccato del tutto il progetto di Google per digitalizzare tutti i libri del pianeta. Che sono digitalizzati, ma nom accessibili.
Money quote: "Page had always wanted to digitize books. Way back in 1996, the student project that eventually became Google—a “crawler” that would ingest documents and rank them for relevance against a user’s query—was actually conceived as part of an effort “to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library.” The idea was that in the future, once all books were digitized, you’d be able to map the citations among them, see which books got cited the most, and use that data to give better search results to library patrons. But books still lived mostly on paper. Page and his research partner, Sergey Brin, developed their popularity-contest-by-citation idea using pages from the World Wide Web"
Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/
Money quote: "Page had always wanted to digitize books. Way back in 1996, the student project that eventually became Google—a “crawler” that would ingest documents and rank them for relevance against a user’s query—was actually conceived as part of an effort “to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library.” The idea was that in the future, once all books were digitized, you’d be able to map the citations among them, see which books got cited the most, and use that data to give better search results to library patrons. But books still lived mostly on paper. Page and his research partner, Sergey Brin, developed their popularity-contest-by-citation idea using pages from the World Wide Web"
Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/
The Atlantic
Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”