{"id":649850,"date":"2013-03-29T18:30:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T22:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=73878"},"modified":"2013-04-01T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:21:08","slug":"in-short-an-upworthy-birthday-death-in-the-20th-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649850","title":{"rendered":"In short: An upworthy birthday, death in the 20th century"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here, some staff picks of smart, funny, bizarre and cool stuff on the interwebs this week:<\/em><\/p>\n

Happy Birthday, Upworthy! Here are 11 lessons our friends at Upworthy learned in their first year on the Internet. [Unworthy<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Jay Horwitz, media relations director for the Mets, is the Barry Bonds of butt dialing. He frequently booty calls everyone in the MBA but everyone’s cool with it. [WSJ.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\"DavidDavid McCandless: The beauty of data visualization<\/span><\/a> How did we die in the 20th century? A data visualization of causes of death, beautiful as always, by David McCandless. [Guardian<\/a>] In case you missed it,\u00a0watch McCandless’ talk from 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Does robot uprising mean human downgrading? [Chronicle<\/a>] Peep our playlist of robots at TED \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

New details about the origin and contents of the universe, revealed by the most detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe. [Sci Tech Daily<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Are there too many cooks in the Cairo kitchen? [London Review of Books<\/a>]<\/p>\n

A delightful personal essay by Edward Jay Epstein, on getting an A in Nabokov’s class at Cornell (informally known as Dirty Lit). [NY Review of Books<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\"KeithKeith Chen: Could your language affect your ability to save money?<\/span><\/a> Ozgun Atasoy takes a look at the research Keith Chen presents in his TED Talk<\/a> on how language correlates with your ability to save money. [Scientific American<\/a>] Read more about Chen’s research \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

Developments in science means better science-as-fashion. Right? [PopSci<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Digg, like so many of us, is bummed out that on July 1 Google is shutting down Google Reader. Help them build a new reader \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n

What psychologically separates the world’s WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) countries from the rest? [Pacific Standard<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\"SusanSusan Cain: The power of introverts<\/span><\/a> Business Insider talks with Susan Cain about writing and giving her blockbuster TED Talk on the power of introverts<\/a>. [Business Insider<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Successful trials for gene therapy that eliminates leukaemia in eight days. [New Scientist<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Everything is awesome starting now. Planking is dead. Long live hadoken-ing. [Imgur<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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Here, some staff picks of smart, funny, bizarre and cool stuff on the interwebs this week: Happy Birthday, Upworthy! Here are 11 lessons our friends at Upworthy learned in their first year on the Internet. [Unworthy] Jay Horwitz, media relations director for the Mets, is the Barry Bonds of butt dialing. He frequently booty calls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}