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Learning2-2··on Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its footing?
There is absolutely a thriving tech scene in Europe. Here is for example a list gaming companies in Sweden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_companies_o...
Learning2-2··on Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it
The History of Sexuality (French: L'Histoire de la sexualité) is a four-volume study of sexuality in the Western world by the French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault, in which the author examines the emergence of "sexuality" as a discursive object and separate sphere of life and argues that the notion that every individual has a sexuality is a relatively recent development in Western societies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Sexuality

Learning2-2··on A Polar Vortex collapse sequence has begun
The warm period in December has a word in Norwegian: kakelinna, traditionally thought to be caused by excessive baking before Christmas. https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakelinna
Learning2-2··on iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages
On cue China made a remark after the protest in India that these protests like these would not occur in Chinese factories...
Learning2-2··on When Einstein Tilted at Windmills
I had never looked into the history of ideas leading up to general relativity. The terminology is so different than other physics and it seems to answer questions that I have never seen referenced. This article give a glimpse into the intellectual history and why it came to be. Though I found the end of the article a little unclear.
Learning2-2··on Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective
The Pink Panther films are also hilarious parodies of this genre. Peter Sellers as inspector Jacques Clouseau is a blast
Learning2-2··on Engineers produce a fisheye lens that’s completely flat
Here is a video explaining the difference between a Fresnel lens and a photon sieve: Photon sieves used to visualise optical wave front propagation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TshYfYIxR9E

Learning2-2··on Physics is stuck
Isn't this an idealization myth of the scientific method? I'm pretty sure some kind of observation prior to forming the theory will account for many theories.