March 2011
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WatchDimitri From Paris - BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix - 19.03.2011
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Little White Earbuds interviews @hyperdub bossman... →
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The Sunk Cost Fallacy →
The Misconception: You make rational decisions based on the future value of objects, investments and experiences.
The Truth: Your decisions are tainted by the emotional investments you accumulate, and the more you invest in something the harder it becomes to abandon it.
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Holland’s Magic Mountain →
The life and death of buildings are more than just metaphors when it comes to one category of structure closely identified with modern architecture: the sanatorium. These facilities for the treatment of tuberculosis are as emblematic of changing attitudes toward architecture as they are toward shifting views on contagion.
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How Much Sex Did Victorians Actually Have? →
Our pleasures are still bound, but the fetters clamp in different places. They let us know about desire now, all the places it tickles. We have more of everything: more self-consciousness, more seductions. So give the Victorians their distance. Don’t confuse them with us; we have our own chains to rattle.
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The Case for Happiness-Based Economics →
This suggests that a more even distribution of income would correlate with greater total happiness than an unequal distribution. That would mean seeing unemployment as an even worse scourge than it already is. That would mean increasing marginal tax rates on the richest and maybe even plowing the extra dollars to the poor. Most importantly, that would mean greater investments in education for the...
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Interiors: Thank you, Marlene Dietrich →
If it weren’t for the German actress, this iconic Berlin apartment may never have existed. Today, it’s a designer pad in one of the city’s best spots
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Japan and the uses of adversity →
The rest of Asia watches with horror, pity and admiration
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Meet Louis CK: the nicest guy in massively... →
His TV pilots keep getting axed, and he believes there’s ‘no realistic limit’ to what you can say in stand-up. But this Edinburgh fringe favourite takes his responsibilities seriously
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Mayor of Rust →
Urban decline has been around just about as long as there have been cities, but the degeneration of America’s industrial heartland, because it cuts across a wide swath of the country and is as much about jobs as it is about habitation, has seemed both intractable and inevitable.
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Hidden Orchestra - Night Walks On Vinyl Mixtape →
To celebrate the release of the Night Walks album, Joe Acheson of Hidden Orchestra (Tru Thoughts Recordings) has put together this studio mixtape.
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The 'lost' footage of Bob Marley's early career →
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Watchthis is some crazy shit.
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As Kindles Take Over, What Happens to Margin... →
With the rise of e-readers, anxiety mounts about the future of underlining and scribbling in books
