Laura Pike Seeley
@laurapikeseeley
Laura Pike Seeley
The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent--And Reinvent--Our Identities a book by Gregory Berns
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Neuroscience and
Why would colleges merge?Like most things in business, it starts with supply and demand. Demand for college degrees has been falling.
The Hustle • Higher education meets high finance - The Hustle
The traditional office was probably doomed anyway. Then a global shutdown changed everything we thought we knew about work, including where and when it needed to take place.
Julia Hobsbawm • The Nowhere Office
Want antifragile kids? Get out of their way
bigthink.com
This heightened attitude of censoriousness has led many to believe that the internet is no longer the free and open platform it once was. And while this may be true to some extent, there is still one corner of the internet that remains relatively untouched by censorship: The decentralized web, or Web3.
Daniel Saito • Fighting back: Web3 as the ultimate catalyst of censorship resistance
Perhaps the most important insight is this: when we criticize our technology, we’re really criticizing ourselves. And when we try to imagine better systems, we’re really trying to imagine better ways of being human.
Joan Westenberg • The Original Sin of Everything
To combat climate change, the nonprofit group C40 Cities is partnering with a Danish firm to pilot walkable neighborhoods in five global cities.
A Global Push for More ‘15-Minute Cities’
However, Sini Eräjää, Greenpeace’s European food and forests campaign lead, said it would be “a terrible idea” to cut down natural forests and replace them with wood plantations.
Timber cities ‘could cut 100bn tons of CO2 emissions by 2100’
