Linklist 28 juli 2019
- How trashy TV made children dumber and enabled a wave of populist leaders
- In Italy, it’s not that television made voters more conservative. Instead, Durante said, it seems to have made them more vulnerable to the anti-establishment stances favored by the country’s populist leaders of all persuasions.
- 500 years ago, China destroyed its world-dominating navy because its political elite was afraid of free trade
- Rutger Hauer Is Dead at 75 (1944 - 2019)
- The 101 people, ideas and things changing how we work today - BBC Worklife
- The world of work is in transition. Are you ready?
- Buffalo – Rapid Web Development in Go
- A Go web development eco-system, designed to make the life of a Go web developer easier.
- All-time temperature records tumble again as heatwave sears Europe
- Highs in Germany, Netherlands and Belgium exceeded for second time in 24 hours
- Unlimited Fuel and Hearts of Steel: Flooring It for 40 Years on the “Highway to Hell”
- AC/DC's breakthrough album turns 40 years old today -- here's our retrospective on a record so goddamn rock-'n'-roll that it hardened into musical permanence.
- Woodstock '99 Was a Violent Disaster That Predicted America's Future - VICE
- The well-documented, pervasive misogyny of Woodstock '99 is more relevant to America in 2019 than the "free love" politics of its original iteration.
- Europe’s Cities Weren’t Made for This Kind of Heat - CityLab
- A record-breaking heat wave across London, Paris, and Amsterdam is signaling an urgent need for design and cultural changes to combat climate change.
- Duidelijker wordt het niet: de klimaatverandering van nu is echt uniek | De Volkskrant
- Twijfelen of de mens het klimaat wel opwarmt, is nu toch echt een achterhoedegevecht geworden. Een reeks nieuwe analyses, gelijktijdig gepubliceerd...
- Rutger Hauer, star of Blade Runner, dies aged 75 | Film | The Guardian
- Dutch actor renowned for his role as replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s sci fi epic, was equally at home in Hollywood and European cinema
- A Molecular Hurdle Might Make Weight Loss Even More Difficult - The Atlantic
- A new study in mice points to how cell biology, not willpower, might be the root of yo-yo dieting.
- The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy - VICE
- BitTorrent usage has bounced back because there's too many streaming services, and too much exclusive content.