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Hitting the Books: Without glass, we’d have never discovered the electron

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Post date May 2, 2020
Categories In ainissa ramirez, cathode ray, excerpt, feature, glass, hitting the books, hittingthebooks, joseph john thomson, mit press, Tech, the alchemy of us, tomorrow

[ad_1] MIT Press Excerpted from The Alchemy of Us – How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another by Ainissa Ramirez. Reprinted with permission from The MIT PRESS. Copyright 2020. Long before the Great War, in 1895, science and magic were hard to separate. That year, Wilhelm Roentgen took a ghostly picture of his wife’s hand using mysterious […]

Hitting the Books: The story behind Instagram’s most famous filter

Post author By Randall
Post date April 25, 2020
Categories In excerpt, feature, gear, hitting the books, hittingthebooks, Instagram, no filter, sarah frier, simon & schuster, Tech, x-pro ii

[ad_1] Simon & Schuster From NO FILTER: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier. Copyright © 2020 by Sarah Frier. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved. The founders took over a whiteboard in one of the Dogpatch Labs conference rooms and had a brainstorming session that would serve as […]

Hitting the Books: Brotopia

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Post date March 10, 2019
Categories In brotopia, business, Entertainment, excerpt, hittingthebooks, Tech, tomorrow
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[ad_1] Brotopia: Breaking up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valleyby Emily Chang “Boys will be boys” doesn’t cut it anymore. For anybody who isn’t a cis-het white guy, the internet can be a xenophobic hellscape filled with racist trolls, misogynists, creeps and *shudder* tech bros. Women and PoC are being put through a societal meat […]