Tag: Science and technology
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The Nobel brain drain: where laureates were born, and where they won
I drew a line from birthplace to prize for 760 Nobel prizes in the sciences and economics. 31% went to someone working outside their birth country, the United States gained 131 more laureates than it grew, Germany’s share fell from 31% to 7% after 1933, and Japan became a late riser that keeps its laureates.
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How fast did news travel? Lincoln, Custer, the Titanic and Pearl Harbor in America’s newspapers
I followed four great stories through 13,233 digitised issues of 936 American newspapers. A daily printed Lincoln’s death the next morning, just as fast as the Titanic or Pearl Harbor. What held news back was the weekly press day.
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Moving a website without breaking its links
Old links are the memory of a website. Here is how I moved my homepage to a new host while keeping every old URL working.
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Short explainer: What will the world of social media look like in 30 years?
It is difficult to predict exactly what social media will look like in 30 years, but in this short explainer I try.
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Innovation via desperation: Twitter Fleets
Twitter Fleets are not necessary, nobody on the network was calling for them, and their implementation shows that Twitter has more interest in following the crowd than genuinely innovating. Instead, what we now have is social networks innovating from a position of desperation, focused on ‘keeping up with the Joneses’.
