Foundry’s WTF (22-July-2017)

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The Foundry’s Weekly Technology Fix (WTF) is a curated list of articles/posts/etc. we found interesting. The Foundry @ Cornell Tech transforms research and ideas into products.

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Department of 🎮 💉 (Digital Addictions)

Try classrooms with not laptops; replace ankle bracelets with mobile phones; and free yourself from notifications.

Students are Better Off without a Laptop in the Classroom

Let's Stop Using Ankle Bracelets to Monitor Offenders

Notifications: A Tragedy Of the Digital Commons

Department of 💡🏙 (Smarter Cities)

Generate electricity with your feet; immigration; the economics of traffic death; and fast-vs-slow commutes.

World's first 'smart street' turns footsteps into energy

Why U.S. Cities Are Fighting to Attract Immigrants

Seattle App Puts a Dollar Amount on Traffic Death

A Visual Breakdown of America's Fastest and Slowest Commutes

Department of 🤑 🔌 (Shameless Plugs)

Great article about social sciences in the context of Big Data; get a 3rd thumb; and largest startup campus opening in Paris.

"The social sciences need to build new foundations"

This 'third thumb' is the unnecessary prosthetic of my dreams

World's largest startup campus opens in Paris

Department of 🌈🎆(Silver Linings)

Flight safety, using British humor; more humane prisons; and cute rat pictures.

British Airways Has Created A Safety Video We'd Actually Watch

North Dakota's Norway experiment

I've Spent Years Photographing Rats To Break The Negative Image Of Rats By Taking Cute Pics Of Them

Department of 🇺🇸🇫🇷🇬🇧 🗳 (US-FR-UK Elections)

A bi-partisan Congress; inequality in America, visually; and economists as astrologers.

Opinion | How to Make Congress Bipartisan

9 Charts about Wealth Inequality in America

How economists rode maths to become our era's astrologers - Alan Jay Levinovitz | Aeon Essays

Department of 🎬 📖 (worthy quotes)

« Give someone a program, you frustrate them for a day; teach them how to program, you frustrate them for a lifetime. » — David Leinweber.

« The key to a good life is not giving a fuck about more; it’s giving a fuck about less, giving a fuck about only what is true and immediate and important. » — Mark Manson. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.

« Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. » — Linus Torvalds.

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