Welcome toReading List , Gizmodo ’s weekend roundup of the best and most interesting writing from around the web . Today , we ’ve got neat body of work from Pacific Standard , Outside , Nautilus , and The Paris Review . allow ’s dig in !
By 2012 , David Roberts was n’t just a man , he was a brand : A star political blogger for Grist , by August 2013 he had ten-spot of thousands of Twitter followers and an enviable online presence . But living in the heart of the 24 - hour news machine had pushed him nearly to the sharpness , drive him to take a one - year sabbatical from online life . “ I would not blog , tweet , share , tholepin , like , star , favorite , or forward anything . cyberspace David Roberts would go silent , ” he articulate . He ’s back now , but he ’s armed with lesson and a good agreement from a twelvemonth away from technical school . [ Outside ]
You might think the machine we invent to make our lives easier would be duty - bound to interact with us aboveboard . But as Kate Greene explains , there are plenty of ways technology is designed to delude us . From “ Door Close ” elevator buttons that are n’t connected to anything , to a decoy bus plosive speech sound in Germany designed to keep dementia patient from wandering off from a care installation , Greene shows us the fascinating ways technical school can be benevolently untruthful — and how that might expand in the future tense . [ Pacific Standard ]
Caleb Scharf , an astrophysicist and director of Astrobiology at Columbia University , give us a deep , dark look into what might bump if we were to encounter exotic life somewhere else in the universe . I do n’t want to ruin the surprisal , but things could go very badly . [ Nautilus ]
Dan Piepenbring finds joyous , off - beat art where most of us who write for the internet only find frustration and pain : The janky , disjointed language of machine - post junk e-mail in online comment sections . Piepenbring ’s examples surpass penis pills and get - rich - quick schemes to almost reach the eminent art of found verse . [ TheParis Review ]
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