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The People in Retreat: An Interview with Ai Xiaoming

Ai Xiaoming: I believed in the goodness of human nature. I believe this is naïve. Actually, human nature in this totalitarian society has become very vile. This power has changed Chinese people's psychological makeup. Most people, very many people, are really terrible; they're afraid of losing things.

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‘The Future of Scholarly Knowledge'

To the Editors: Are we at the edge of a slippery slope on which the production of scholarly knowledge will be shaped by the demand for metric-based accountability? Join us at the New School on October 13 and 14 for our thirty-fifth Social Research Conference, “The Future of Scholarly Knowledge.”

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Attorneys and Brigadiers

To the Editors: In Judge Rakoff's review of Professor John C. Coffee Jr.'s Entrepreneurial Litigation there are several references to the plural of “attorney general,” rendered there as “attorney generals.” I always have understood the plural to be “attorneys general.” Is this yet another of many instances in which the NYR knows something I do not know? Or is this (gasp!) an error in the NYR?

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The Birth of Language

To the Editors: In his review of Robert Berwick and Noam Chomsky, Why Only Us: Language and Evolution , Ian Tattersall concludes that “no other scenario currently available from linguistics fits the archaeological facts better than the essentials of Berwick and Chomsky's vision.” This is a remarkable claim for a “vision” blind to the social context, whatever it was, in which language must have evolved and offering no account whatever of the origin of words.

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The Enigma of the Enigma

To the Editors: I read in “The Spooky Side of World War II” by Antony Beevor: “Shortly before the war, Polish experts had provided both the British and the French with copies of German Enigma enciphering machines, but the hard-won achievements at Bletchley Park during the Battle of Atlantic could only have happened in the more informal atmosphere of a democracy.” You may know that the Polish government provided France and the UK with “copies of German enciphering machines,” as well as with the fully documented German codes as cracked by three Polish mathematicians: Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Rozycki, and Henryk Zygalski, who did it in a sufficiently “democratic atmosphere” of 1932 Poland.

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Go Directly to Facebook

To the Editors: Zoë Heller's latest review [“‘Hot' Sex and Young Girls,” NYR, August 18] is typically incisive and sensible, but in her honorable effort to quell over-the-top assertions about the dangers of social media, she underestimates its distinctive power in girls' lives.

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lafilleblanc: Giovanni Anselmo, Untitled, 1984 canvas,...

lafilleblanc:

Giovanni Anselmo,
Untitled, 1984
canvas, granite, steel cord
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Egypt bans unapproved statues after string of botched jobs

Prime minister's decree comes after series of amateurish sculptures sprang up across country to be met with anger and scorn

In response to a series of questionable statues that have sprung up in Egypt, the prime minister has banned all public artworks not approved by the ministry of culture.

Sherif Ismail issued the decree after a controversial statue was unveiled in the eastern city of Sohag.

#نفرتيتي لأصحاب قوة الملاحظة ما هو الفرق بين الصورتين ؟؟ pic.twitter.com/XhvfWHbstQ

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annie leibovitz's women: new portraits exhibition opens at fabrica orobia in milan

designboom attended the preview of the exhibition to ask leibovitz how the project has evolved in the last ten years, and what changes she has noticed in regards to how women are represented now.

The post annie leibovitz's women: new portraits exhibition opens at fabrica orobia in milan appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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j. mayer h. sets ‘XXX' street furniture in new york's times square

the pink, X-shaped outdoor loungers custom-built for the area accommodate up to four people each.

The post j. mayer h. sets ‘XXX' street furniture in new york's times square appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

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Curated history: how to tell a 2 million-year-old story with one exhibition

A National Museum of Australia exhibition tells the history of the world in 100 objects mostly sourced from the British Museum, ranging from a counterfeit Chelsea shirt to a stone tool that reaches back to the dawn of humanity

• Ritual sacrifice, ancient insults and sacred fire: 2 million years of history in pictures

The exhibition is billed as “two million years of history in one room”, but Mathew Trinca, director of the National Museum of Australia, describes it simply as “the story of us”.

Sourced from the British Museum with some Antipodean additions, A History of the World in 100 Objects is the National Museum's spring/summer blockbuster exhibition: a collection of objects that show the span of human history, from early stone tools to Javanese shadow puppets to an HSBC sharia-compliant, no-interest credit card.

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Panoptics Here & There

To the Editors: In his insightful article “In the Depths of the Digital Age,” Edward Mendelson refers to Jeremy Bentham's “never-built nineteenth-century panopticon.” This reference is misleading. Bentham's plan for a panopticon—first published in 1786—remained unrealized until after his death, but several panopticons were built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in Europe and in the Americas.

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Cap Watkins: Treat Your Life Like a User Experience Problem

About the presentation

Too often, the product design, product management, and engineering teams are thought of as three separate entities. This divide, according to Cap Watkins, the VP of Design at Buzzfeed, can lead designers to feel undervalued or even defensive when the product managers or engineers attempt to make suggestions to their work. Having realized this battle at Buzzfeed, Watkins proposed the question: “How do we create a culture of empowerment for design?”

In this talk, Watkins provides a step-by-step process to blur the lines between the different product building teams in an effort to get feedback on not only the work being done, but also the process on how that work gets done. Change is complicated and creating the internal partnerships will adjust the way people work, ultimately for the better. “We have to realize that working together doesn't mean we're trying to take each others job,” says Watkins. “We're just trying to be better collaborators.”

About Cap Watkins

Watkins is a product designer living and working in Brooklyn. He is currently the VP of Design at BuzzFeed, as well as a blogger, podcast guest, conference speaker, and lover of start-ups and technology. He believes in thoughtful, holistic design solutions that get out of the way and empower people to accomplish more. His past work includes Etsy, Zoosk, Formspring, and hush-hush stuff at Amazon.

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The Candidates and the Doubts

Trump and Clinton began the post-Labor Day campaign with a number of awkward and major unresolved questions hanging over their candidacies and with only nine weeks for each campaign to convince the country that their candidate should be president. Both major candidates had come into this part of the race with vulnerabilities that threatened to outweigh their strengths. This was quite different from the fresh start to a presidential election that the Labor Day holiday was supposed to mark.

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We should all applaud Airbnb's effort to stamp out discrimination on its platform

The internet doesn't have a discrimination problem; people on the internet have a discrimination problem. This problem became Airbnb's problem back in May, much like it became the problem of Uber, Facebook, Twitter and hundreds of other tech companies before that. After the hashtag #AirbnbWhileBlack blew up in May, the on-demand housing provider faced escalating backlash from both users and activists claiming it wasn't doing enough to rectify its discrimination problem. Airbnb took the criticism in stride — and possibly on the chin — while working with social justice group Color of Change to address the problem. Today, that collaboration led to a 32…

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Airlines are warning passengers not to use Samsung Galaxy Note 7 on board

Now that Samsung has issued a mass recall for the Galaxy Note 7 , Australian airlines Qantas, Jetstar and Virgin Australia are advising passengers to refrain from using their devices on board. Following numerous reports of exploding batteries, the decision for the ban comes directly from the airlines and not from the country's aviation authorities. While Note 7 owners can still carry their phones with them, Quantas told Reuters it's “requesting passengers who own them not [to] switch on or charge them in flight.” @latikambourke Qantas made announcement on flight today…no charging Samsung Note 7 on plane — Dean Cabena (@dcabena77) September 6, 2016 Australian airlines are not…

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