Gregory Cowles writes in The New York Times:
“Write what you know,” young writers are often told. But for readers, the corollary is pretty much the opposite: Read what you don’t know. To the extent that books grant you access to another person’s mind, they provide a sure path to new ways of seeing. And in reading as in life, the more you expose yourself to other perspectives the broader your horizons will be.
A fantastic guide to tap your inner reader.
Antonin Scalia Law School receives $50 millions from the estate of the late Judge Allison M. Rouse and Mrs. Dorothy B. Rouse. Scalia’s brand alone brought in $80 million for the school. Changing its name was a good move after all.
Michael Brice-Saddler writes in The Washington Post:
An 18-year-old from Ohio who famously inoculated himself against his mother’s wishes in December says he attributes his mother’s anti-vaccine ideology to a single source: Facebook.
Ethan Lindenberger, a high school senior, testified Tuesday before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, and underscored the importance of “credible” information. In contrast, he said, the false and deep-rooted beliefs his mother held — that vaccines were dangerous — were perpetuated by social media. Specifically, he said, she turned to anti-vaccine groups on social media for evidence that supported her point of view.
The misinformation of Mark Zuckerberg.
My membership for Font of the Month Club has been automatically renewed today. The past two years had been wonderful. I enjoyed playing around with the fonts David has been making for the club. I have used them on this site, my portfolio, and a few projects at work. I look forward to every first of the month for a new font. Cheers to another wonderful year filled with fun fonts.
The headline says it all: “Billionaire Diamond Trader Dies During Penis Enlargement.”
Michael Grothaus reports in Fast Company:
Last year it came to light that Facebook was using the phone numbers people submitted to the company solely so they could protect their accounts with 2FA for targeted advertising. And now, as security researcher and New York Times columnist Zeynep Tufekci pointed out, Facebook is allowing anyone to look up a user by their phone number, the same phone number that was supposed to be for security purposes only.
I deactivated my account for two weeks already and I might end up deleting it.
David Remnick profiles Buddy Guy in The New Yorker:
Three chords. The “one,” the “four,” and the “five.” Twelve bars, more or less. Guy’s devotion and sense of obligation to the blues form began long before the death of B. B. King. The story goes like this.
The son of sharecroppers, George (Buddy) Guy was born in 1936, in the town of Lettsworth, Louisiana, not far from the Mississippi River. On September 25, 1957, he boarded a train and arrived in Chicago, another addition to the Great Migration, the northward exodus of black Southerners that began four decades earlier. But Guy hadn’t come to Chicago to work in the slaughterhouses or the steel mills; he came to play guitar in the blues clubs on the South Side and the West Side. He was twenty-one.
Worth a read—or listen.
Andrew Jacobs reports in The New York Times:
Much like the fight over prescription drug prices, the “poop wars,” as one doctor described it, mirrors long-running tensions in American health care between pharmaceutical companies and patients.
Human feces, it turns out, are a potential gold mine, for both medical researchers and drug makers.
According to the analytical firm GlobalData, the market for drug-based treatments for C. diff is expected to reach $1.7 billion by 2026, up from $630 million in 2016. The growth is tied to soaring rates of C. diff, which parallel the overuse of antibiotics, leaving patients more vulnerable to the infection.
Inspired by the success of fecal transplants for C. diff, scientists are racing to develop similar treatments for an array of ailments and disorders, among them obesity, autism, ulcerative colitis, and Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
Investors, too, have taken note, and they are pouring tens of millions of dollars into start-ups chasing the next microbiota breakthrough.
Fascinating!
Oliver Schöndorfer writes:
Typekit was the place for web fonts – it made them accessible and affordable for many designers and customers. With Adobe Fonts it transformed into being a great tool for mostly designers but not necessarily a web font service anymore. And this makes me sad.
This made me sad as well. I missed Typekit and moved off Adobe Fonts.