— Tom Hobbs (via jxnblk)
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A New York Times Whodunit
If you care about journalism, read this. You will learn about the stellar shape that print journalism is in, and this is what we consider the best paper.
— Susan Sontag
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I actually really need to land like this every time I jump down from a thing. (I jump down from a lot of things.)
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Creative Apps: Best of 2011
Worth a look back almost six months on. (Where is cascade these days. Bigger question, why is cascade like functionality not built into… everything)
This photo is impossibly good because it is near impossible to determine what is going on. Thus, I would live in this apartment. Settled. Paris. (via yatzer)
related to the last:
LIFE online recently published a series of rare photos from the 1955 Atomic Bomb tests out in Nevada. I find this time in our countries history to be a fascinating one - so many huge technological leaps forward but with creations of destruction. LIFE sums it up pretty well:
With conversations about nuclear tests (both theoretical and real) so very much in the news these days, these pictures from more than half a century ago might serve as a quiet reminder of just how horrific and insane the very notion of nuclear warfare really is.
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Bradbury further suggested that “this situation will frequently arise, and that the War Department should neither give sanction nor denial to the publication of such a document.” He continued:
I would urge as forcefully as possible that since this document does not specifically involve any work done by the project, the War Department should say so, and make no further comment on the manuscript.
The issue highlighted an epistemological bind that had dogged the security system since the early days of the Manhattan Project. If you make it clear that there is a secret you want to have kept, you must, in part, give away some of the secret. If you try to censor something, you inadvertently draw attention to it. If you fail in your censorship effort, you perforce validate information that was otherwise considered speculative.
Alex Wellerstein’s excellent tale of publishing public data that the government believes is not (even when it is). The whole thing is in Physics Today.
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You should follow this awesome new tumblr because I backed it on Kickstarter and Ben Marcus is pretty cool and I am sure their other contributors will be too.
