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La prima cosa che mi ha attratto di questo articolo è la foto di apertura, che avevo visto anche io sui siti dove si distribuiscono foto gratuitamente per scrivere. Bella immagine, evocativa. L'idea dell'articolo, invece, è singolare: a differenza della retorica che circola adesso per cui lo smart work è qui per restare, secondo l'autore dell'articolo invece le cose non stanno così.

Money quote: "I haven’t had the “good fortune” of working from home during the quarantine season. I’ve still been going into the office each day, but I am experiencing the effects of 1/3 of my staff working from remote locations, including their homes. I am very much looking forward to having my team back together in the same location."

https://medium.com/swlh/remote-work-is-not-here-to-stay-9ef4f0f8f169
Altro che bicicletta della mente: il condor delle Ande fa cento miglia con un solo battito delle ali

Money quote: "For the first time, a team of scientists strapped recording equipment they called “daily diaries” to eight condors in Patagonia to record each wingbeat over more than 250 hours of flight time.

Incredibly, the birds spent just 1% of their time aloft flapping their wings, mostly during takeoff. One bird flew more than five hours, covering more than 100 miles (160km), without flapping its wings.

“Condors are expert pilots but we just had not expected they would be quite so expert,” said Prof Emily Shepard, a study co-author and biologist at Swansea University in Wales."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/13/andean-condor-fly-without-flapping-wings-flight-bird
C'è un odioso stereotipo che sostiene che i figli unici siano meno intelligenti di quelli con fratelli o sorelle. Ebbene, posso dire da figlio unico e con l'aiuto della scienza, che non è vero. Anzi, i figli unici sono più flessibili e creativi.

Money quote: "The idea that only children are somehow deficient was started 125 years ago by Granville Stanley Hall, a leader in the child-study movement, writes Lauren Sandler, author of One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joys of Being One. Having worked on the 1896 study “Of Peculiar and Exceptional Children,” Hall cast only children as “oddballs” as “permanent misfits,” descriptions that have stuck over the years with remarkable persistence. “Being an only child is a disease in itself,” he claimed.

There is ample evidence suggesting the stereotypes of the “lonely only” are wrong."

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/neuroscience-shows-that-our-gut-instincts-about-only-children-are-right
Ora, io capisco tutto: si scrive su Medium per attirare i click e fare due soldi, la prospettiva black matters, il punto di vista femminile-femminista, il disagio che si vive in un'altra cultura e che diventa difficile da comprendere perché diverso da quelli della nostra cultura, e tutto il resto. Però, questo che sembrava un semplice articolo su "terapia e matrimonio" (una accoppiata interessante, direi), si è rivelato un delirio. Cioè, ma sul serio? Credo di vivere su un altro pianeta.

Money quote: "My mother’s “all men are trash” rhetoric never sat well with my spirit. So, with the help of my therapist, I went back into those spaces most of us fear — those dark, dank corners of our past relationships, where everything we’ve ever learned about love, from the people who love us the most, has been wrong.

One constant I found is that I date mentally unstable men. When I’m not dating them, I’m marrying them. And whether I’m dating or marrying them, I’m ignoring their mental health issues — as well as my own."

https://level.medium.com/why-isnt-therapy-a-prerequisite-for-marriage-e6ec2b9721a9
Sketchfighter 4000 Alpha, un vecchio classico di Ambrosia Software, ce l'ha fatta: è sbarcato nel mondo a 64 bit.

Money quote: "With so many games gone with the transition to 64-bit apps, I was happy to see Lost Minds take the time and effort to revitalize this small but fun corner of Mac gaming history. Updating older games isn’t trivial, which is why reboots like Sketchfighter are sadly the exception rather than the rule."

https://www.macstories.net/reviews/game-day-sketchfighter-4000-alpha/
Ogni tanto tutti quanti, inclusi noi giornalisti, ci emozioniamo all'idea delle "fattorie-verticali", che coltivano cibo sulle pareti dei palazzi cittadini. E ci sono parecchie startup hi-tech che ci provano. Il problema è che la Silicon Valley non ha la più pallida idea di come funzioni l'agricoltura. Peccato.

Money quote: "So why am I not worried about vertical farming or startups that are trying to reinvent the wheel? They are busy fighting battles that simply don’t exist for their competition (outdoor/field-based agriculture). Current agriculture doesn’t need an artificial energy source and the automation that exists today is breathtaking. It is completely reasonable for a single human, with assistance from machines, to comfortably farm 1,000 acres or more of traditional rows crops. It generally doesn’t matter if a vertical farm can ‘produce’ 365 days a year, the existing agriculture infrastructure in the breadbaskets of the world (United States, Brazil/Argentina/Eastern Europe) make any indoor advantage disappear, and quickly. These centers are ‘connected’ as well, with existing GPS and cellular networks available today."

https://thinkingagriculture.io/what-silicon-valley-doesnt-understand-about-agriculture