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At 9:30 in the morning, an architect and three senior scientists—two from Stanford, the other from Hewlett-Packard—donned eyeshades and earphones, sank into comfy couches, and waited for their government-approved dose of LSD to kick in. From across the suite and with no small amount of anticipation,…

Jul 31, 2012

A Web Designer on Fukushima | Information Architects

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A Web Designer on Fukushima Essay 26 April 2011 I’m not a nuclear expert. I am a 40-year-old Swiss web designer, with a degree in philosophy, living in Tokyo. And I’m a father of a two-year-old boy. I was nonchalant about nuclear energy so far, but recently, I’ve read a lot about it; it’s hard to…

May 31, 2012

I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave | Mother Jones

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Search Newsletter Magazine Politics Environment Media Crime and Justice Food Guns Dark Money Photos Investigations Podcasts Kevin Drum About Subscribe Donate I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine.…

Apr 3, 2012

Lost in Space | Articles | Features | Fortean Times UK

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Mar 18, 2012

From Indochina to Iraq: At War With Asia :: JapanFocus

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From Indochina to Iraq: At War With Asia Noam Chomsky interviewed by Kevin Hewison Vietnam and Laos 1970 Kevin Hewison: The Journal of Contemporary Asia (JCA) is now in its thirty-seventh year of publication, and you have been on the Editorial Board since Volume 1, No. 2. Could you tell us how it…

Mar 8, 2012

Schneier on Security: Liars and Outliers: The Big Idea

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Liars and Outliers : The Big Idea My big idea is a big question. Every cooperative system contains parasites. How do we ensure that society's parasites don't destroy society's systems? It's all about trust, really. Not the intimate trust we have in our close friends and relatives, but the more…

Mar 5, 2012

The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever | Wired Magazine | Wired.com

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Jeffrey Mitchell, a volunteer firefighter in the suburbs of Baltimore, came across the accident by chance: A car had smashed into a pickup truck loaded with metal pipes. Mitchell tried to help, but he saw at once that he was too late. The car had rear-ended the truck at high speed, sending a pipe…

Feb 24, 2012