Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
- Back on May 9th, First-Lady Michelle Obama had a brutally honest speech about racism during a keynote at Tuskegee University's Commencement 2015. Here is a video of her speech in full (via YouTube).
- A 13-Year-Old writes on his view on Social Media (via @Medium).
- Alibaba wants to bring March Madness to China (via @business).
- The best not to have won the Champions League (via @championsleague).
- Superb longform article by Josh Dzieza on the war on rats (via @verge).
- I don't watch the other series, but I would definitely watch this: NCIS: Ibiza ;) (via @funnyordie).
- Netflix might revive Top Gear as "House of Cars?" (via engadget)
- Patrick Martyn writes about his tale of tryout for the Ohio State marching band (via @sbnation).
- Watch Stephen Colbert's keynote speech at Wake Forest University Commencement 2015 (starts at 59min). He warns the graduating class to get their act together if they don't want to live in a "Mad Max" style dystopian future.
- Jay Z goes on a Tidal freestyle rampage against Apple, Google, YouTube and Spotify, but who will have the last laugh? (via TechCrunch)
- Recently, The New York Times wrote about the benefits of Coffee. It resulted into a lot of comments in questions. Here is the follow-up article.
- Check out this 60-Second Science Video about the loneliest place in the universe from Science American.
- The Coming Cyberpeace: The Normative Argument Against Cyberwarfare (via Foreign Affairs).
- What CEOs have learned about Social Media (via Harvard Business Review).
- A writer at The Cauldron (on Medium) writes that for 17 years, we have been worshipping false idols, and that the best player since Jordan was Tim Duncan.
- Apple releases cheaper Retina iMac and 15-inch MacBook Pro with Force Touch (via @verge).
- China wants to create a 3000 miles railway through the Amazon (via @guardian).
- @Madeon warns that Sony will take down all of his music from his Soundcloud in the next few days. Have a farewell listen (via @YourEDM).
- Grand Theft Auto designer: "We wanted to poke fun at US culture" (via @voxdotcom).
- Facebook changed his News Feed algorithm yet again, should you stay or should you go? (via @chelseahejny).
- American's young are turning their backs on politics (via @TheEconomist).
- $1 million is apparently no longer enough to retire (via @YahooFinance).
- Amazing new cover of the New Yorker magazine by Carter Goodrich (via @NewYorker).
- Simon Pegg confirms the next TREK is called STAR TREK BEYOND and discuss recent comments he made causing controversy via (@bmoviesd).
- M. Bison returns for Street Fighter 5 (via @Polygon).
- Ev Williams on Barack Obama being on Twitter and why it matters (via @Medium).
- Slack now has a podcast.
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