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According to the Wall Street Journal, the “percentage of adults [in the U.S.] who sleep with their cellphone” is 67% of men and 64% of women. Shockingly grim nocturnal statistics! Is there really this many nerds, work slaves, needy clingers, and devoted bureaucrats? The Wall Street Journal’s figures come from a recent Pew Research Center … Continue reading sleeping with a mobile phone
Modern surveillance technology is getting smaller and smaller. Look at those eyes. Try to convince yourself that it’s just a butterfly.
John Kang’s article, “The Burdens of Manliness,” published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, displays burdens of manliness among elite academics. … Read the post Kang on burdens of manliness among academics
The National Portrait Gallery takes a medieval approach to defending privileged stories of national heroes such as Shakespeare. … Read the post a Shakespearean portrait after the Internet Reformation
In a nineteenth century dataset, cabinets group birds at a high level of similarity. Each cabinet contains stuffed and mounted birds, arranged roughly in a grid. On the top row of this cabinet are three flycatchers followed by three kingbirds. On the second row are two kingbirds follwed by four flycatchers. The next row displays … Continue reading knowledge from the nineteenth century to now