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There’s not much detail in the description for this video, but the performance speaks for itself. The Professional Tea Boy (Thanks, myiosprinter!)

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Playing a delightful tune on teacups

Piotr Czerski’s manifesto, “We, the Web Kids,” originally appeared in a Polish daily newspaper, and has been translated to English and pastebinned. I’m suspicious of generational politics in general, but this is a hell of a piece of writing, even in translation. Writing this, I am aware that I am abusing the pronoun ‘we’, as

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Web Kids’ manifesto

Excerpted with permission from The Happiness of Pursuit: What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About the Good Life, by Shimon Edelman. Available from Basic Books, a member of The Perseus Books Group. Copyright (c) 2012. When Fishing For Happiness, Catch and Release I was teaching a big introductory course on cognition, which, I felt, had to

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The Happiness of Pursuit: What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About the Good Life, by Shimon Edelman – exclusive excerpt

Everyone seems to have A.D.D. these days. (In case you’ve been too distracted by your Twitter feed to remember, A.D.D. stands for Attention Deficit Disorder — the inability to focus on any one thing for too long, the urge to do nine things at once, and the hyper, constantly shifting, unsettled feeling that goes along

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A.D.D. comic book: Exclusive essay and excerpt by author Douglas Rushkoff

Carl Franzen’s history of the SOPA/PIPA fight on Talking Points Memo is a fascinating account of the behind-the-scenes stuff that created the series of ever-larger protests that resulted in the bills’ demise. Of particular note is his credit to Tiffiniy Cheng, who, along with Nicholas Reville, and Holmes Wilson, forms a trio of Boston-bred activists

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Secret history of the SOPA/PIPA fight

Palantir is security software that helps CIA analysts take innocuous events (man comes to U.S. on temporary visa, man takes flight training classes, man buys one-way ticket from Boston to California) and put them into a context where potential threats can become more apparent (the one man is actually several, and they’re all on the

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CIA threat-tracking technology is fascinating, creepy