{"id":5447,"date":"2016-04-27T12:03:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T16:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lendongxuongdoai.info\/dollarsandsense\/?p=5447"},"modified":"2016-04-29T10:22:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T14:22:50","slug":"mid-week-reader-27-apr-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lendongxuongdoai.info\/dollarsandsense\/?p=5447","title":{"rendered":"Mid-week Reader, 27 Apr 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Insight and analysis on global marine issues<\/strong> from\u00a0The Economist<\/a>. We’re not treating our most common resource well. We’re raiding it.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Untold Story of Magic Leap, the World\u2019s Most Secretive Startup<\/strong>, WIRED, May 2016 cover story<\/a>. The world\u2019s hottest startup isn\u2019t located in Silicon Valley\u2014it\u2019s in suburban Florida. Kevin Kelly <\/span>explores what Magic Leap\u2019s mind-bending technology tells us about the future of virtual reality<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Inside OpenAI, Elon Musk\u2019s Wild Plan to Set Artificial Intelligence Free<\/strong>, WIRED, 27 Apr 2016<\/a>. Elon Musk has a new startup. OpenAI is a billion-dollar effort to push AI as far as it will go.<\/em><\/p>\n

Facebook Isn\u2019t the Social Network Anymore<\/strong>, Slate, 24 Apr 2016<\/a>. \u00a0Facebook may have peaked as a social network. But it\u2019s reinventing itself as something bigger<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Alphabet\u2019s Next Big Thing: Building a \u2018Smart\u2019 City<\/strong>, WSJ 26 Apr 2016<\/a>. Unit of Google parent explores project to \u2018create a city from scratch\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

The State is Back in Business<\/strong>, CFR, 22 Apr 2016.<\/a> It’s how state capitalists are governed that matters\u2014not how much of the economy they control, argues Joshua Kurlantzick in new book, State Capitalism<\/em>.<\/p>\n

President Xi Jinping\u2019s Most Dangerous Venture Yet: Remaking China\u2019s Military<\/strong>, WSJ, 25 Apr 2016<\/a>. The Chinese leader\u2019s plan to revamp the armed forces, the biggest restructuring of the People\u2019s Liberation Army since the 1950s, a plan that unnerves America and its Asian allies and could upset the global balance of power. A milestone in the nation\u2019s emergence from isolationism, it faces hurdles at home.
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\"3rdgraders\"Please Vote For Me<\/strong>, An Aeon Video exclusive<\/a>. Chinese children grow up largely unfamiliar with democracy. But when taught its basic principles and asked to elect a class monitor, a group of third graders is quick to embody the imperfections of the democratic process, from empty promises to back door bribery<\/em>.
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Venezuela Doesn’t Have Enough Money to Pay for Its Money<\/strong>, Bloomberg, 27 Apr 2016<\/a>. Venezuela\u2019s inflation, the world\u2019s highest, is expected to rise this year to close to 500 percent, according to the IMF<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The city with $248 billion beneath its pavement<\/strong>, BBC Capital, 19 Apr 2016<\/a>. Under London\u2019s streets lies a hidden gold mine: vaults that stash one-fifth of all the gold held by the world\u2019s governments<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The Dice You Never Knew You Needed<\/strong>, The New Yorker, 26 Apr 2016<\/a>. [The] d120 is billed as the “ultimate fair die allowed by Mother Nature (i.e., mathematics!),” since a die couldn\u2019t, practically speaking, possess more sides or more symmetry, and dice must be symmetrical to be fair.<\/em><\/p>\n

Why Physics Is Not a Discipline<\/strong>, Nautilus, 21 Apr 2016<\/a>. Physics is not just what happens in the Department of Physics.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Psychopath, the Altruist and the Rest of Us<\/strong>, WSJ, 21 Apr 2016<\/a>. Studies of psychopaths and extreme altruists suggest that their behavior could be linked to the amygdala, part of the brain<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Cheap MBAs: Costly for some<\/strong>, The Economist, 21 Apr 2016<\/a>. Cheap as chips MBAs aren’t worth the risk. Why it’s worth investing a little more.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sex: the myths debunked<\/strong>, The Guardian, 23 Apr 2016<\/a>. From boosting your IQ level to lowering your blood pressure, how much do you really know about sex?<\/em><\/p>\n

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global marine resources raided, Magic Leap, Open AI, Facebook’s reinventing, Alphabet\u2019s \u2018smart\u2019 city, return of state capitalism, restructuring of China\u2019s military, Chinese third graders’ election, Venezuela\u2019s 500% inflation, London\u2019s hidden gold mine, d120 dice, the non-discipline of physics, psychopaths, cheap MBAs, sex and IQ. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Mid-week Reader, 27 Apr 2016","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[467],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lendongxuongdoai.info\/dollarsandsense\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/d120-e1461768445728.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7rSaG-1pR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendongxuongdoai.info\/dollarsandsense\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendongxuongdoai.info\/dollarsandsense\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendongxuongdoai.info\/dollarsandsense\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendongxuongdoai.info\/dollarsandsense\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendongxuongdoai.info\/dollarsandsense\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5447"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lendongxuongdoai.info\/dollarsandsense\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5473,"href":"https:\/\/lendongxuongdoai.info\/dollarsandsense\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5447\/revisions\/5473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendongxuongdoai.info\/dollarsandsense\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendongxuongdoai.info\/dollarsandsense\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendongxuongdoai.info\/dollarsandsense\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendongxuongdoai.info\/dollarsandsense\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}