Categorie: Links
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Links van 19 april 2016 tot 26 april 2016
Nokia is buying digital health firm Withings for $191 million | The VergeNokia has announced plans to acquire Withings — a French consumer electronics company focused on digital health — for €170 million ($191 million) in cash. The acquisition will significantly boost Nokia's portfolio of wearables and fitness devices, bringing 200 Withings employees and products —…
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Links van 16 april 2016 tot 18 april 2016
Media Websites Battle Faltering Ad Revenue and Traffic – The New York Times85 cents of every new dollar spent in online advertising will go to Google or Facebook, said Brian Nowak, a Morgan Stanley analyst. (…) Facebook also announced that it would open up Instant Articles — which encourage publishers to post their content directly…
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Links van 12 april 2016 tot 15 april 2016
Hillary wins! Named most corrupt politician of 2015She's in a dead heat with Trump, loses to several Republicans in the polls, and can't seem to shake that pesky Bernie Sanders, but nevermind the bad news, it's time to score a win for Hillary: The nonpartisan watchdog group Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) named…
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Links van 2 april 2016 tot 10 april 2016
Malcolm Gladwell got us wrong: Our research was key to the 10,000-hour rule, but here’s what got oversimplified – Salon.comYes, it takes effort to be an expert. But Gladwell based 10,000-hour rule in part on our work, and misunderstood Mounting data suggest antibacterial soaps do more harm than good | Ars TechnicaWhether you’re coming home…
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Links van 30 maart 2016 tot 2 april 2016
Netanyahu: Anti-Israel ‘slander and lies’ caused Brussels attack | The Times of Israel Allez, dat weten we dan ook, dus: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Saturday that a shooting attack at the Brussels Jewish Museum that killed three people and critically injured a fourth was caused by anti-Israel attitudes in Europe.” Hillary…
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Links van 24 maart 2016 tot 28 maart 2016
Why is David Cameron so silent on the recapture of Palmyra from the clutches of Isis? | Voices | The IndependentIn the end, it was the Syrian army – and its Hizballah chums from Lebanon, and the Iranians, and the Russians – who drove the Isis murderers out of Palmyra So You Wanna Be a Chef—…
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Links van 19 maart 2016 tot 21 maart 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Belgian Intelligence Had Precise Warning That Airport Targeted for Bombing – World News – Haaretz – Israeli News Source Haaretz.com Dus die lekken uit het onderzoek hebben er direkt toe bijgedragen? Goed werk, mensen. “Abdeslam’s arrest was apparently the trigger for Tuesday’s attacks, due to the concern in ISIS that he might give information…
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Links van 12 maart 2016 tot 17 maart 2016
Erdogan claims fighting terrorism outweighs democracy in Turkey | News | DW.COM | 16.03.2016"Democracy, freedom and the rule of law," have "absolutely no value any longer," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told local leaders in Ankara on Wednesday. "Those who stand on our side in the fight against terrorism are our friend. Those on the opposite…
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Links van 9 maart 2016 tot 10 maart 2016
Millions of ordinary Americans support Donald Trump. Here’s why | Thomas Frank | Opinion | The GuardianNow, let us stop and smell the perversity. Left parties the world over were founded to advance the fortunes of working people. But our left party in America – one of our two monopoly parties – chose long ago…
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Links van 2 maart 2016 tot 8 maart 2016
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Presenting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921-1931) | Open Culturethe Zentrum Paul Klee made available online almost all 3,900 pages of Klee’s personal notebooks, which he used as the source for his Bauhaus teaching between 1921 and 1931 Mystery in Miniature by Christopher Benfey | NYR Daily…
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Links van 29 februari 2016 tot 1 maart 2016
Dissolving the Dead · thewalrus.ca DALE HILTON can show you fear in a bagful of dust: 160 pounds of once-living human, pressure-cooked, baked, and pulverized into soft white powder fine enough to sprinkle over French toast. The ground bones sit in clear plastic on a counter, next to a pacemaker, a false hip, and a pair…
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Links van 24 februari 2016 tot 26 februari 2016
Vridar » Fresh Doubts on Authenticity of Pliny’s Letter about the ChristiansPliny the Younger’s letter to Trajan regarding the Christians is a crucial subject for the studies on early Christianity. A serious quarrel among scholars concerning its genuineness arose between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th; per contra, Plinian…
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Links van 21 februari 2016 tot 22 februari 2016
The 17 saddest moments of Jeb Bush’s very sad campaign – VoxGoodbye, poor Jeb Bush. Hopefully you'll spend the next several months on a beach, playing checkers with your wife and not paying any attention to the election. We'll miss you. De Grote Disruptive-Start-up-Out-Of-The-Box-Co-Creation-in-the-Cloud-Bullshit-BingoDe Toekomst volgens de Startupdelta laat zich in elf woorden samenvatten: meer…
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Links van 19 februari 2016 tot 20 februari 2016
‘Het kapitaal is nu helemaal de baas’ | Boeken | de Volkskrant'Ik hoor nog wel eens om me heen: wat ben je links geworden. Dat is een verkeerde aanname. Ik zei dit soort dingen al in de jaren zeventig. Toen was daar niets radicaal aan. Het is de samenleving die zo rechts is geworden, zo…
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Links van 12 februari 2016 tot 17 februari 2016
“Armste gezinnen leveren 50 à 100 euro per maand in”Ach ja: "De laagste inkomens gaan er bijna zonder uitzondering op achteruit door de besparingen van de federale en Vlaamse regering. Dat blijkt uit berekeningen van Decenniumdoelen 2017, een samenwerkingsverband van sociale organisaties en armoede-organisaties. "Dat varieert van in de 50 tot in sommige gevallen meer…