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On Quitting

Drawing by Christopher Stackhouse A few years into grad school, a friend’s relentlessness yields a diagnosis: bipolar disorder, an oscillation between periods of frenetic activity and profound…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2931 words)

Lost in the Meritocracy

On the bus ride down to St. Paul to take the test that will help determine who will get ahead in life, who will stay put, and who will fall behind, two of my closest buddies seal their fates by…
LENGTH: 34 minutes (8504 words)

88MPH Demo Day Nairobi - A Great Day For Beer Drinking, Networking, Learning And "PDA"

I attended the last Demo Day organized by the 88mph startup accelerator in Nairobi yesterday and had a swell time. The location of the accelerator is probably the best place in…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2157 words)

Everything Tech In West Africa is Moving Forward. Except Education.

AUTHOR:BLOG UNION
PUBLISHED: April 12, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1986 words)
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The Bitcoin Boom

On March 16th, the Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, who’d been in office for about a month, announced a strategy to solve the country’s banking crisis. This plan, which would be…
PUBLISHED: April 2, 2013
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3610 words)

Peak Battery: Why Smartphone Battery Life Still Stinks, and Will for Years

Jared Newman / TIME.com In the five years since Apple released its first iPhone, touch-screen smartphones have become thinner, lighter, faster and more capable. But through it all, battery life has…
PUBLISHED: April 1, 2013
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1679 words)

Why we have our best ideas in the shower: The science of creativity

“I’m not really a creative person”, always struck me as an odd sentence. Could it really be that some of us are born to be more creatively gifted than others? If so, I thought at…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 28, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1823 words)

I used Google Glass: the future, with monthly updates

Mirrorshades Finally I get a chance to put the device on and find out what using Glass in the real world actually feels like. This is the moment I’ve been waiting for all day. It’s…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (408 words)

Nigeria Village Square

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LENGTH: 26 minutes (6738 words)
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