Praying in the Closet: Notes on Carrie, Episode Two, “Foreign Language” Episode two of Carrie opens in a small, dark place: Carrie and her mother, kneeling together in the closet, praying. It’s an unsettling scene, and it got me thinking about history. Faith, Flight, and the Work Ethic The Protestants who left England did so to escape persecution […]
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Watch who you’re talking to. On social media, Zoom, or anywhere online — “Mom” might not be Mom. That shiny sports car video could be a lawn chair. That mansion might just be a homeless camp. Just saying.
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You can already see the past. Light that left Earth long ago is still traveling outward. A new app, plus new technology, would catch those photons and show them on a phone. Some of that light is beyond the Milky Way. That is the very old light: early humans and dinosaurs. The Kennedy shooting and […]
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The Software Lock on Your Hardware: Tesla, IBM, and the Price of Being Online Sometimes you pay for the product, and sometimes you pay for permission to use what’s already in it. Tesla’s Hidden Battery Capacity In September 2017, Hurricane Irma bore down on Florida, and Tesla owners with the entry-level 60 kWh Model S […]
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