我們都知道這種感覺。你在悲傷的夜晚失眠，或者在朦朧的週末清晨蹣跚而行，需要一些閱讀的東西，而那一堆未讀的書並不能阻止你。為什麼不從Twitter和RSS的消防水龍帶中休息一下，看看我們每週從網路上收集的關於技術、文化、媒體和未來的重要文章？當然，坐在Instapaper佇列中你會感到內疚的還有一件事，但總比再次在Twitter列表上徒勞地拉好。

論名人

約翰赫爾曼探索了前NBA野心家大衛約翰遜如何使用閱讀收據來跟蹤他發給傑伊的數百封電子郵件。瘋狂的部分？Jay-Z似乎在看這些郵件，經常不止一次。

轉發：約翰赫爾曼-跟蹤世界上最大的明星

Believing you have a direct, one-way line to someone like Jay-Z also inevitably forces you to confront some questi***. What is he getting out of this? What does he think of me? And the one that you can only ignore for so long: If he's reading, why isn't he responding to me?

論不朽

埃文R。戈爾茨坦介紹了美國宇航局噴氣推進實驗室的老兵肯海沃思和他的死亡治療搜尋。

高等教育編年史：埃文R。戈爾茨坦-不朽的奇怪的神經科學

Hayworth has spent much of the past few years in a windowless room carving brains into very thin slices. He is by all accounts a curious man, known for casually saying things like, "The human race is on a beeline to mind uploading: We will preserve a brain, slice it up, simulate it on a computer, and hook it up to a robot body." He wants that brain to be his brain. He wants his 100 billion neur*** and more than 100 trillion synapses to be encased in a block of transparent, amber-colored resin—before he dies of natural causes.

論釘扎

卡琳娜·喬卡諾（Carina Chocano）反覆講述了這些釘住和翻滾的原因。

《****》雜誌：Carina Chocano-Pinterest，Tumblr和“策展”的麻煩

There’s a German word for it, of course: Sehnsucht, which translates as "addictive yearning." This is, I think, what these sites evoke: the feeling of being addicted to longing for something; specifically being addicted to the feeling that something is missing or incomplete. The point is not the thing that is being longed for, but the feeling of longing for the thing. And that feeling is necessarily ambivalent, combining both positive and negative emoti***.

簡論

網際網路正在改變禮儀也就不足為奇了，埃裡克·斯皮爾曼（Erik Spiegelman）向我們展示了電子郵件的新規則是如何暴露代溝的。

巴士你自己的託盤：埃裡克斯皮爾曼-論電子郵件的簡潔性的優點

This conflicts with an older style of correspondence that associated pleasantries with tact. Tactful emails now are efficient, and pleasantries are a waste. People accustomed to pleasantries see their absence as rude, or a sign of being cross. They infer a tone that isn’t there, while people accustomed to brevity know how difficult it can be to ascertain tone from an email.

在coursera

本週，包括普林斯頓、杜克、佐治亞理工大學在內的十幾所大學宣佈，他們將加入Daphne Koller和Andrew Ng的CurSera線上高等教育機構。今年秋天，這些學院將提供100多個mooc（“大規模線上開放課程”），喬丹·魏斯曼（Jordan Weis**ann）正在考慮這對未來線上教育意味著什麼。

馬克·埃德蒙森教授在《****》評論版上對網路教育持不同觀點。

大西洋：喬丹·魏斯曼——高等教育中最重要的實驗

And therein lies Coursera's promise. The company does not c***ider itself an alternative to a traditional university. Rather, it's more of a market for learning. Schools that design classes for Coursera retain the rights to their work, meaning it's a risk-free way for schools to dip themselves into online education without building the technology infrastructure from scratch. In turn, professors can incorporate the web material into their traditional courses, for instance by turning their 9 a.m. lectures into homework. In time, the process could breed more familiarity, less contempt, and much more efficient classrooms.

論漫畫

當FILMCRITHULK回顧他在2012年漫畫大會上的時光時，擁抱所有的帽子。

娛樂週刊：電影綠巨人-綠巨人VS.漫畫場！

BUT AS HULK GOES THROUGH THERE IS SOMETHING DISTRESSING ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE INTERACTIONS AT LARGE HERE. IT’S ALMOST AS IF THERE’S A GAP BETWEEN THE PRESUMED SMARTNESS OF "THE NERD" AND THE ACTUAL SMARTNESS BEING PUT FORTH IN THESE INTERACTIONS.

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