Venkatesh Rao
This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.
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Pink's Travel Tips -- Tip #1
This is "Pink's Travel Tips -- Tip #1" by Daniel Pink on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
Venkatesh Rao
Back in the day @DanielPink shared this tip to avoid infections when traveling, topical bacitracin smeared inside your nose. It’s an antibiotic though so I doubt this is any use against viral infections. Still, handy tip.
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Face Masks: What Doctors Say About Their Role In Containing Coronavirus
As the Wuhan coronavirus continues to spread, officials in China are urging citizens to wear masks in public to stop the spread of the virus — and cities
APOD: 2020 February 25 - Jupiters Magnetic Field from Juno
A different astronomy and space science
related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
Japan urges telecommuting, staggered shifts to curb coronavirus
The Japanese government on Tuesday urged companies to recommend telecommuting an...
Zoom stock is rising as coronavirus spreads
COVID-19 fears are causing businesses to cancel travel and rely on videoconferencing, instead.
You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus
As the virus spreads, it’s becoming evident that infected people may have mild symptoms, or none at all.
A Text Renaissance
There is a renaissance underway in online text as a medium. The Four Horsemen of this emerging Textopia are: Roam, a hypertext publishing platform best understood as a medium for composing conspira…
A Billion-Dollar Scandal Turns the ‘King of Manuscripts’ Into the ‘Madoff of France’
Accused of orchestrating a literary Ponzi scheme, Gérard Lhéritier prepares his defense as his breathtaking collection is auctioned off.
Venkatesh Rao
This is my new favorite story. Ponzi schemer/scammer.... wins the actual damn lottery. Reminds me a bit of Pratchett’s Moist von Lipwig character. Via Matt Levine
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Past Time to Tell the Public: “It Will Probably Go Pandemic, and We Should All Prepare Now”
by Jody Lanard and Peter M. Sandman NOTE FROM IAN: The expert risk communication team of Lanard and Sandman has given me permission to post their very well-considered reply to my question of them just
Venkatesh Rao
“...the end of most quarantines, travel restrictions, contact tracing, and other measures designed to keep “them” from infecting “us,” and the switch to measures like canceling mass events designed to keep us from infecting each other.“
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Economic Corridors
Introduction Economic corridors are meant to attract investment and generate economic activities within a contiguous region, on the foundation of an efficient transportation system. They are meant …
Venkatesh Rao
Corridors are an interesting macro planning paradigm. Closest real thing to what I’ve been calling streams and gyres. I suspect they don’t actually work though unless they’ve already sort of emerged naturally. Paving economic pathways basically.
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✨Vintage, Arts, Architecture✨
“Urban Matrix”, floating town with tetrahedral residential units (instant city). Arch. Stanley Tigerman. 1972 In this project , as in his better known ’ Instant City ’ , Tigerman shows how coastal...
Moscow targets Chinese with raids amid virus fears
MOSCOW (AP) — Bus drivers in Moscow kept their WhatsApp group chat buzzing with questions this week about what to do if they spotted passengers who might be from China riding with them in the...
Digital Me
Shawn Bradshaw has made a desperate gamble. To save his life he risked it all in an attempt to become digitized. Knowing almost nothing about the greater Digital community or if he will be allowed to join, how Digital existence is experienced, or...
Wattpad Paid Stories - Home
Introducing Wattpad Paid Stories. A new way to monetarily support the Wattpad writers who create the stories you love. Get all the latest program info here.
Wattpad - Where stories live
Wattpad connects a global community of millions of readers and writers through the power of story
Venkatesh Rao
Interesting, I hadn’t heard of wattpad. Sounds like substack for serialized fiction except you don’t charge subscription and the idea is to break into your target genre publishing industry?
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How Astounding Saw the Future
Tracing the evolution of the mid-20th-century magazine whose pages gave rise to the genre of science fiction.