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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth 1
Peter Ackroyd writes in this 2015 book: * There was in any case no sense of privacy in the sixteenth-century world; men commonly shared beds, and princes dined in public. The individuals of every community were under endless scrutiny from … Continue reading
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David Samuels Interview RFK Jr
David Samuels has terrible epistemics. He has no idea what is true. He provides no evidence for his assertions. He writes for Tabletmag: * In 2005, Kennedy wrote a blockbuster Rolling Stone magazine article titled “Deadly Immunity,” which presented compelling … Continue reading
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Gen Z
Joe Moran writes: Post-millennials can quickly convey their pleasure or displeasure through memes. They use emojis as a ‘social lubricant’ and bracket words with asterisks and tildes for emphasis and irony. Whether they write ‘k’ or ‘kk’ to mean ‘OK’ … Continue reading
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Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology
From LROB: * Shockley was a terrible manager and a passionate racist, who devoted his post-Nobel decades to publicising home-brewed theories about ‘dysgenics’ or genetic degradation and racial differences being a form of natural ‘colour-coding’ to warn about low intelligence. … Continue reading
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The Reaction Economy
From the LROB: * Talent shows such as The X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing revolve around the facial reactions of celebrity judges; figures such as Simon Cowell are specialists in the manipulation of an eyebrow or the spontaneous look … Continue reading
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