On this day, September 5
Interesting stuff that happened on this day, between 2006 and 2023.
(to know what this is, who does it and why, read the last paragraph)
2006
2008
2009
- Affordable Housing Made of Recycled Materials
- Brain Makes Splash With Structural Unemployment Message at Singularity Summit 08
- Fast economic growth in Africa
- In Russia, there is nothing that bloggers can’t spin
- Coverage of Disruptive Science and Technology
2010
2012
- 187 Save Homicide Watch Clay Shirky
- Miranda Mulligan: Want to produce hirable grads, journalism schools? Teach them to code
- The Danger In Exempting Wireless From Net Neutrality
2013
- As US shale industry falters, a UK fracking boom is unlikely
- How can big data go the distance for runners (and the rest of us)?
- Linux Hackers Rebuild Internet From Silicon Valley Garage
- Reasons (Not) to Release Data
- Roads Kill: The Menace of Traffic to Public Health
- Some high streets must die so that others can flourish
- Technology and open data key to improving water management, …
- The real reason Kansas is running out of water
- Visualizing How the Brazilian Government Underspends on the Public Good
2014
- Michael Pollan’s 7 Rules for Eating
- Rare Earth: Afghanistan Sits on $1 Trillion in Minerals
- The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection
2015
2017
2018
2019
- Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend: Alaska’s universal basic income problem
- America Without Family, God, or Patriotism
- The Human Cost of Amazon’s Fast, Free Shipping
- ==> Workers, consumers and depressing myths
2020
2021
2022
- ‘We don’t have enough’ lithium globally to meet EV targets, mining CEO says
- The Cost of Being Poor: Why It Costs So Much to Be Poor in America
- The lesson of The Lord of the Rings ‘review bombing’
2023
- “Alarming” scale of marine sand dredging laid bare by new data platform
- A Smokeless Buzz: A rise in oral nicotine pouch use raises health concerns for high schoolers
- Burning Man: How the ultra-wealthy infiltrated the anti-capitalist desert confab
- California and Florida grew quickly on the promise of perfect climates in the 1900s - today, they lead the country in climate change risks
- Interoperability Can Save the Open Web
- Escalating Signals Cut Fertility
- Human ancestors nearly died out 900,000 years ago, study suggests
- Linking two solar technologies is a win-win for efficiency and stability
- Nobody’s Driving
- On Gentrification, We Don’t Know What We’re Talking About
- On the Death of a Common American Culture
- Play deficits and life sentences
- Why furniture got so bad
What’s this, and who does it?
I am Marco, tech writer and aspiring polymath, researcher and popularizer of “Digital-Human Studies in many ways, including my newsletter.
Over the years, I have bookmarked thousands of articles and news of all sorts related to those studies, or to my personal interests. This post is a selection of the bookmarks that were published on this day, in several years (1).
I share them as a public service, because memory of what happened and serendipity MATTER. A lot. We are all too distracted and stressed by stuff that has no other merit than being “new”, or limited to our work, instead of being important (if you find broken links, please let me know).
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- This is in the spirit of the “Almanac of the next day”, an italian TV program aired from 1974 to 1994 that presented the most important historical facts happened on each day. This is a snapshot of its opening titles:
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