The Tactical Guide to Jeremy Stephens vs. Doo Ho Choi
At UFC Fight Night 124, thunder-punching Doo Ho Choi looks to build some momentum against Jeremy Stephens, who has been knocked out only once, in 2012. Should be a weird one.
The Stories You Lose When Your Refugee Family Splits Itself Up
After her entire family fled Iraq, my grandmother stayed behind because she didn't want to give up on the country she loves.
Creating robots capable of moral reasoning is like parenting – Regina Rini | Aeon Essays
We already have a way to teach morals to alien intelligences: it’s called parenting. Can we apply the same methods to robots?
A classic film finds order in randomness with the aid of some improbably elaborate sets | Aeon Videos
The Physical Science Study Committee (PSSC) was formed in 1956 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the mission to create science-education materials for US high-school classrooms. In this PSSC film from 1961, the physics professors J N Patterson Hume and Donald Ivey of the University of Toronto deploy their expertise – as well as some seriously elaborate sets – to demonstrate how, with enough data, highly predictable patterns can emerge from unpredictable events. This version of Random Events has been visually and aurally enhanced by the Aeon Video team. For more elaborate educational wizardry from the PSSC, watch Frames of Reference.
Oracle and Palantir said diversity figures were trade secrets. The real secret: Embarrassing numbers
The Labor Department initially sided with tech companies to block the data, but released it after Reveal filed a lawsuit.
California water districts face suit for ignoring conservation law
A horse grazes at a ranch near Merced County, Calif. More than 20 of the state’s largest water districts have failed to turn in water management plans.Associated Press After largely ignoring a cons…
George R.R. Martin keeps doing things that are not writing the next “Game of Thrones” book
Here's what he has been up to instead.
The Flaw in Our Democracy
“It is not in elections that the quality and character of our government are determined. That is done in party nominations.”
'Artifact' Isn't a Game on Steam, It's Steam in a Game
Imagine if we monetised the rot.
The fastest man on earth dares to keep winning
Original reporting and documentaries on everything that matters in the world.
The Friends of Richard Nixon
Some were trusting; some were not. Either way, they lived to regret it, because what was going on was “obstruction of justice.”
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