Lego's Retro Radio is a 906-piece beauty in teal, tan and off-white, complete with bakelite-style knobs and an antenna. It has a speaker but isn't a real radio. It can pretend to be one, sort of, by housing a smartphone or playing back its built-in recordings of old-timey stations. — Read the rest
Columbia University canceled its main graduation ceremony planned for May 15, saying it will instead devote resources to smaller, school-level ceremonies.
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New Jersey’s Democratic primary candidates for the U.S. Senate will take part in a debate moderated by WNYC’s Morning Edition host Michael Hill on Monday, May 13 at the South Orange Performing Arts Center. Candidates Patricia Campos-Medina, Larry Hamm, and Andy Kim will face questions on critical issues facing the state. The event begins at 6 p.m., with video live streamed at wnyc.org. The debate is free and open to the public, but registration at SOPAC.com is required. It will be broadcast at 8...
"The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists."
The online world was meant to be an open system but has become dominated by huge corporations. If we are to revive it, that must endBrowsing through a history of online public messaging last week, I came across a magical photograph from 1989 or 1990. It shows the world’s first web server. It was Tim Berners-Lee’s NeXT workstation in Cern, the international physics research lab, where he worked at the time. On the case is a tattered sticky label, on which is scribbled, in red ink, “This machine...
The internet spreads out like a virus. As it becomes ubiquitous, so are its influences. The same slang is shared in all fifty states through the influence of social media, the same arguments are repeated online by people in disparate corners of faraway states, and gradually, the same manner of dress is adopted almost universally. The internet is a force of widespread cultural homogenization much in the same way that the spread of the English language via the British Empire was, only the internet...
There was no internet during the Enlightenment, but something surprisingly similar did exist in the 17th and 18th centuries. This was the Republic of Letters: a virtual, global community of scientists and intellectuals who exchanged information using the fastest technology available at the time — the postal service. 15,000 letters The clue is in the name: letters tied this self-proclaimed, transnational society together. Lots of letters. What this “metaphysical republic” lacked in speed, it made...
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