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An original by any other name
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No comments on An original by any other nameThe Chinese have two different concepts of a copy. Fangzhipin (仿製品) are imitations where the difference from the original is obvious. These are small models or copies that can be purchased in a museum shop, for example. The second concept for a copy is fuzhipin (複製品). They are exact reproductions of the original, which, for…
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History suggests a silver lining to Brexit
Linda Colley on the lessons history can teach us about the aftermath of Brexit, and how it could have a silver lining: By instinct I am a Remainer, but I think that some form of Brexit may now be unavoidable. If that does turn out to be the case, I suspect that the resulting disruptions…
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Museums of Everywhere
Emmanuel Macron, President of France, recently announced he wants to return African cultural treasures to where they had been looted from, so they could be shown “in Dakar, Lagos and Cotonou,” not just Paris. The exact details of how this will come about – if at all – are still unclear. Perhaps France will make a…
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The Cultures Ep 240: Paleo and Ritual Purity, Mother’s Day, Factchecking Data
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Listen to episode 240 of my weekly podcast with Andrea Phillips and Naomi Alderman: Paleo and Ritual Purity (Australian clean eating blogger who claimed to have been cured of cancer, Holy disorders) Mother’s Day People don’t know how to read data (Guardian childlessness edition)
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The Wind Rises, 2013 – ★★★
There’s a moment when the aircraft designer says, “I just want to make planes. We aren’t arms dealers.” This is, at best, incredibly naive and had the opposite effect on me that I suspect Miyazaki intended. The treatment of women was a waste. But hey, it’s beautifully drawn? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Vía Letterboxd – Adrian Hon
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Lovely personal remembrances of Stephen Hawking including one from me via my dad!
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Health is important, but not if you’re old
Today’s big feature in the UK iPhone App Store is Babylon health. They’ve grown quite a lot in the past few years, raising $60 million in 2017 to expand. One of their major selling points is that you can see a GP (via video consultation) within just two hours. What a wonderful world they’ve created!…
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Ethics are important, but that’s not my job
Via Stack Overflow’s 2018 Developer Survey (sample size ~70,000), most developers feel an obligation to consider the ethical implications of their code 👍: but most do not feel ultimately responsible for code they’ve written that accomplishes something unethical 😕:
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Wolf Warrior 2, 2017 – ★★★
Watched on Sunday March 11, 2018. Vía Letterboxd – Adrian Hon
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How many British women want to have no children?
I was astounded by a particular statistic in a piece about Mother’s Day by Donna Ferguson in today’s Guardian: About one in five (18%) of British women aged 45 are childless, the Office for National Statistics revealed last year, and Britain has one of the world’s highest rates of childlessness among women aged 40-44. For…
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