The four most important charts in science & technology (threadreader) There’s no guarantee these trends will continue without massive public & private investment and smart regulation… but imagine if they do:
– compute power too cheap to meter
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Tan France: ‘People assume I’m older than I am’
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Arts shows star in new Radio 4 line-up after storm at axing of film programme
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British As Folk: three comedians in a campervan have fun with history
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Karamo Brown: ‘Best kiss of my life? Joan Rivers’
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Malorie Blackman: ‘Hope is the spark’
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On the Cusp: Days of ’62 by David Kynaston review – dizzyingly varied
Kynaston’s impressive history of Britain comes to the year 1962, when Harold Macmillan pulled out the long knives and the Beatles released ‘Love Me Do’In Whitehall, prime minister Harold Macmillan unexpectedly sacked a third of his cabinet; in a North …
Susanna Clarke: ‘I’d really ceased to think of myself as a writer’
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Michael Chapman: British folk musician dies aged 80
Esteemed guitarist, whose playing influenced Elton John and David Bowie, died at home, his family saidThe British guitarist Michael Chapman has died at the age of 80. In a post to Instagram announcing the news, no cause of death was given, but it was s…
‘I knew I was pushing buttons’: Kacey Musgraves on breaking country music taboos
She’s already broken out of Nashville to become an unconventional pop superstar. Now she’s stretching the limits of country again – with the help of psychedelics and a four-poster bed in her studioIt is mid-morning in Nashville and Kacey Musgraves is p…