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The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex

As editor of 99U, my inbox is (thankfully) filled with pitches of all kinds. Mainly, writers who’d like to contribute to this site and speakers who’d like to throw their hat in the ring for our yearly 99U Conference. And…

Elon Musk says humans are already cyborgs

YouTube/Recode In today’s day-and-age, we’re all “already a cyborg.” Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said technology has already turned us into cyborgs At Vox Media’s Code Conference Wednesday night. And he makes a really interesting point — our ability to have a…

Zoos Suck For Both Animals and Humans

The backlash has been vicious since zookeepers killed a gorilla named Harambe in order to protect a boy who fell into its enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo. Now, police are investigating the parents in a misguided effort to administer blame,…