Directed by Valerie Weiss. With Gabriel Macht, Rick Hoffman, Sarah Rafferty, Amanda Schull.
Month: January 2019
📺 "Kids Baking Championship" Macaron Madness | Food Network
With Duff Goldman, Valerie Bertinelli, Jenna Alnatur, Paige Goehner. Macarons are a wildly popular dessert, and macarons decorated with faces are a definite trend. Valerie Bertinelli and Duff Goldman challenge the nine young bakers to create macarons decorated with both happy and sad faces.
I’m not sure why I watch this fluff…
🎧 Gillmor Gang: Dead Flowers | TechCrunch
Doc Searls, Denis Pombriant, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Saturday, February 10, 2018.
- Reference to SCAD
- Google Home, Amazon Alexa, Apple’s home assistants
- blockchain mention with respect to the S.E.C.
📺 "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez/Method Man | CBS
With Stephen Colbert, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Method Man, Jonathan Batiste. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.); rapper Method Man;
Just watched the AOC interview only. Lots of fluff and not much substance as I expected.
🔖 The Demon in the Machine by Paul Davies | Allen Lane (2018)
How does life create order from chaos? And just what is life, anyway? Leading physicist Paul Davies argues that to find the answers, we must first answer a deeper question: 'What is information?' To understand the origins and nature of life, Davies proposes a radical vision of biology which sees the underpinnings of life as similar to circuits and electronics, arguing that life as we know it should really be considered a phenomenon of information storage. In an extraordinary deep dive into the real mechanics of what we take for granted, Davies reveals how biological processes, from photosynthesis to birds' navigation abilities, rely on quantum mechanics, and explores whether quantum physics could prove to be the secret key of all life on Earth. Lively and accessible, Demons in the Machine boils down intricate interdisciplinary developments to take readers on an eye-opening journey towards the ultimate goal of science: unifying all theories of the living and the non-living, so that humanity can at last understand its place in the universe.
Found via review.
🎧 Gillmor Gang: Day Zero | TechCrunch
Esteban Kolsky, Denis Pombriant, Keith Teare, Gené Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Saturday, February 3, 2018.
An entire episode on water and sustainability.
Without seemingly knowing it they dance around the idea of needing a mixed economy. It’s almost as if they only know about capitalism and competition and there are no other options out there. We need protections (read “regulations” if you’re a Republican) put in by a planning and forward thinking government and then we can use capitalism as the fulcrum to ramp up and accelerate potential solutions when competition will bring them about.
📗 Started reading A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag by Gordon Korman
📗 Started reading A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag by Gordon Korman
📺 “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” Reporting on the Reporters | PBS
With Christiane Amanpour, Ann Curry, Henry Louis Gates, Lisa Ling. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and his team uncover the family stories of journalists Christiane Amanpour, Ann Curry and Lisa Ling.
Came across this at random and it’s really fascinating. Of course it would be nice if everyone had access to such a service for a low cost…
🎧 Episode 46: Ben Norris aka @bennorris | Micro Monday
This week’s guest, Ben Norris, is a husband and father of six children (plus a new puppy), as well as being an iOS developer, a blogger and a sketchnoter. He has also written quite movingly about mental illness and healing, and we chat about that a bit.
Ben’s Sketchnote of Manton’s Talk at Peers Conference
Coming Out
(tl;dr Hi, I’m Ben, and I have OCD.)
👓 Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars | the Guardian
Adjunct professors in America face low pay and long hours without the security of full-time faculty. Some, on the brink of homelessness, take desperate measures
🎧 Episode 45: Annie Mueller aka @Annie | Micro Monday
This week, Annie Mueller is our guest. She’s a freelance writer who has recently relocated with her family to Puerto Rico. “I do the words,” her About page says. And she likes Micro.blog:
I feel that it’s less about me expressing myself, and more about being part of this conversation with other people who are making their own cool things. It’s a neat meeting of interesting minds, and creative, thoughtful people. I just really enjoy the conversations that take place there.