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Rejoice, Harry Bosch fans: Author Michael Connelly’s Los Angeles detective will be back in a new book this year (7 November, admittedly, but still this year), and he has a new series due out in late July, it seems. Meanwhile, the season three of the very good Amazon TV adaptation of Bosch series (titled simply […]
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A Muslim name in a non-Arab country has more implications than you thought
If you live in a non-Arab country and have both a Muslim name and a job, count yourself very lucky. Precisely three times luckier — if you’re in the UK — than the average person with a Muslim name, in fact. The BBC’s Zack Adesina and Oana Marocico sent out CVs of an Adam and […]
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Coding is the new blue collar job
Forget getting rich at IPO time — coding isn’t the job of “rock stars” or “ninjas.” It’s the blue-collar job of the future. Solid. Predictable. Stable. Paying a living wage. Clive Thompson writes in a short piece for Wired that we can’t quite get out of our heads: “When I ask people to picture a […]
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Serial killers should fear this algorithm
Are you a serial killer? If so, you should fear Thomas Hargrove. Or at least his algorithm. “On Aug. 18, 2010, a police lieutenant in Gary, Ind., received an e-mail, the subject line of which would be right at home in the first few scenes of a David Fincher movie: ‘Could there be a serial […]
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Constructing the perfect song for babies
Constructing the “sound of happy” for babies: An organization that aims to support mothers and mothers-to be by the name of C&G baby club enlisted the help of developmental psychology lecturer at the University of London Caspar Addyman and Grammy-award winning Imogen Heap to compose and record “a song scientifically proven to make babies happy,” […]
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Today’s communication system is horizontally disseminated
Today’s communication system is horizontally disseminated: While print and broadcast media were very similar to the top-down centralized network of communication used by the Church, today’s communication has a different architecture, says tech entrepreneur Oliver Luckett in a video for Big Think. Because anyone with a device and cellular coverage can produce, distribute, and report […]
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Letting economists design the optimal immigration system
What would borders look like if economists ran them? NPR’s Planet Money re-aired a very relevant episode from 2013 on why US immigration policy “doesn’t add up” and “just doesn't make sense.” The show asked three economists on their views on how the policy could be improved and, even then, it still is a mess. […]
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Finding the secret sauce that made Real Madrid the world’s most valuable football club
Operating the world’s most valuable football club: Real Madrid are the most valuable football club in the world. Columbia Business School professor Steven Mandis was given “unprecedented access” to every part of the club and, for a BBC Documentary, he got the club to open their doors and their books to outside scrutiny for the […]
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The smarter you are, the dumber politics can make you and curiosity could be cure
New research suggests that scientific curiosity could be the key to curing polarized opinions and unyielding biases, Brian Resnick writes for Vox. Yale Law professor Dan Kahan was working on a project to measure individual levels of scientific curiosity when he discovered, to his surprise, that the more curious an individual was about the universe […]
Posted inTHE WEEK’S MOST-CLICKED STORIES
The most-clicked stories in Enterprise in the past week were: Anthony Bourdain eating feral pigeon in Cairo, Egypt (Youtube) Inflows, Inflation and IMF: Egypt’s Economic Overhaul in Charts (Bloomberg) BNP Paribas’ outlook on Egypt (Research note, BNP Paribas, pdf) Salafi sheikh channels his inner Michael Jackson (Facebook video) Promo for the HBO documentary Becoming Warren […]