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‘Bad Blood’ Review: How One Company Scammed Silicon Valley. And How It Got Caught.

2018/11/05 wwchu 其他

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/books/review/bad-blood-john-carreyrou.html By Roger Lowenstein NYT, May 21, 2018 BAD BLOOD  Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup By John Carreyrou 352 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $27.95. 關於Theranos的騙局, 中文報導:https://m.jinrongbaguanv.com/details/details.html?id=112377&from=timeline&isappinstalled=0  

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人体为何不适应现代生活? FT

2018/11/05 wwchu 其他

库克森:人类是地球上进化最成功的物种,但人体依然不是特别适应现代生活。三本关于进化的书或许能解释其中缘由。 http://www.ftchinese.com/story/001080019?adchannelID=&full=y 更新于2018年11月5日 07:21 英国《金融时报》科学编辑 克莱夫•库克森 想想人类的身体,任何人的身体。你的和你伴侣的身体——或者你见过的身材比例最完美的男性或女性。你是否看到了难以置信的美,对进化打磨出的如此绝妙而复杂的生物机器感到惊奇? 还是你老在想人体组织和器官的种种缺陷?由于从解剖学上讲不适应现代生活所要求的姿势,腰部经常感到疼痛。肠胃无法处理过量的加工食品。没有矫正镜片,眼睛就看不清楚。

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The Rich White Civil War NYT

2018/10/16 wwchu 其他

A smarter look at America’s divide. By David Brooks New York Times, Oct. 15, 2018 We sometimes think of this as a populist moment. But that’s not true. My first big takeaway from “Hidden Tribes” is that our political conflict is primarily a rich, white civil war. It’s between privileged progressives and privileged conservatives.  

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殖民者离开后,就能获得完全的自由了吗?

2018/10/16 wwchu 其他

原创: 杨茜雯 中东研究通讯 2018/4月18日 20世纪中期,许多亚非国家终于挣脱了殖民者的统治,而热情高涨的人们在度过最初那段相信自己终于摆脱了外来者的压迫、获得了自由的时间之后,渐渐意识到自己其实与殖民遗产不可分割。 https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/-rXnNVZMH-H4-25CzMU51Q

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Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web

2018/10/08 wwchu 其他

https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim-berners-lee-tells-us-his-radical-new-plan-to-upend-the-world-wide-web 2018/9/28 With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google.  

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