21 Most Fascinating Articles from August 2015.
A pity we can’t get her back. But its a good thing she left us with some wise and insightful nuggets of age-long wisdom, which I have happily curated for the good and wonderful folks of Medium!
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1. Can we reverse the aging process by putting young blood into older people?
A series of experiments has produced incredible results by giving young blood to old mice. Now the findings are being tested on humans. Ian Sample meets the scientists whose research could transform our lives —
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/04/can-we-reverse-ageing-process-young-blood-older-people
2. An Internet for All?
https://medium.com/@vignanv8/internet-for-all-2a7316d2283a
3. The age of loneliness is killing us:
Ebola is unlikely ever to kill as many people as this disease strikes down. Social isolation is as potent a cause of early death as smoking 15 cigarettes a day ; loneliness, research suggests, is twice as deadly as obesity. Guess who is to blame? http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/14/age-of-loneliness-killing-us
4. How many lives does a actually doctor save?
https://80000hours.org/2012/08/how-many-lives-does-a-doctor-save/
5. Boy, was I wrong about Donald Trump. Here’s why.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/04/boy-was-i-wrong-about-donald-trump-heres-why/?tid=pm_pop_b
6. I run a university. I’m also an Uber driver:
I wanted to understand the sharing economy.
Instead, I got schooled in the failures of Atlanta’s public transit system.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/07/29/i-run-a-university-im-also-an-uber-driver/
7. Inside the failure of Google+, a very
expensive attempt to unseat Facebook - http://mashable.com/2015/08/02/google-plus-history/
8. By Bill Gates: Why I’m investing $1 billion of my own money into clean energy research :-)
http://qz.com/470592/by-bill-gates-why-im-investing-1-billion-of-my-own-money-into-clean-energy-research/
9. Atari founder Nolan Bushnell (Who gave Steve Jobs his first Job), on why life is ‘a game’
- http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33117769
10. Interested in Socrates and Aristotle?
Stanford’s Encyclopedia of
Philosophy — http://plato.stanford.edu/
(Technically not an article, but you will as sure as hell find it cool. :-) )
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11. This American Girl Watched a Film, Came to India & Started a Movement with Used Bars of Soap
- See more at: http://www.thebetterindia.com/25123/this-american-girl-watched-a-film-came-to-india-started-a-movement-with-used-bars-of-soap/
(Awwhnnnn)
13. If we stand still, we go backwards
- the charming ways the web has evolved —
https://jakearchibald.com/2015/if-we-stand-still-we-go-backwards/
14. GCHQ AND ME: My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers — (A Spy’s Diary)
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/03/life-unmasking-british-eavesdroppers/
(This one blew off the web’s brains back then.)
15. From 0 to $ 1 . 2 M RunRate (and profitability !) in just 5 quarters .
9 lessons learned in creating an impossible company —
http://adespresso.com/academy/blog/from-0-to-1-2m-runrate-and-profitability-in-just-5-quarters-9-lessons-learned-in-creating-an-impossible-company/
(I was jealous of this guy. :-()
16. HIV flushed out by cancer drug — http://www.bbc.com/news/health-33720325
(Arguably one of the most Hopeful articles from Dear August.)
17. How the Hiroshima bombing is taught around the world :
Insights to how different our education systems really are — https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/06/how-the-hiroshima-bombing-is-taught-around-the-world/
(Yep its true. We aren’t all the same.)
18. Building Bloodhound: The Fastest Car in the World:
Jets, rockets, and computer models will help a British team break 1,600 km/h —
http://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/advanced-cars/building-bloodhound-the-fastest-car-in-the-world
19. How India tried to ban porn and failed:
Because Prime Minister Modi Watches Porn Too -
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/08/economist-explains-2#2iRaeWBRWgIcOzpV.99
(Couldn’t stop laughing. Govt. of Change indeed!)
20: What Steve Jobs Taught Me About
Being a Son and a Father:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/fashion/mens-style/what-steve-jobs-taught-me-about-being-a-son-and-a-father.html
(Serendipity)
21. ‘SEX HAS BECOME SO EASY’!! Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”
(Yep. The most controversial harbinger of Mother August. Tinder, breathe a sign of relief. Its all over. Finally.)
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