The Real Story of the Dutch Tulip Bubble?

The Real Story of the Dutch Tulip Bubble?

She tells the real—and equally fascinating—story of the tulip bubble to Barron’s Sarah Green Carmichael, in the pilot episode of a possible new podcast for Barron’s on the history of finance. One of the things that I found is that people who are collectors of tulip bulbs often are collectors of paintings as well,” Anne Goldgar says. But Anne Goldgar says the tulip bubble shook Dutch society in a different way.

Source: www.barrons.com

San Francisco Police Raid Journalist’s Home After He Refuses to Name Source

San Francisco Police Raid Journalist’s Home After He Refuses to Name Source

San Francisco Police Raid Journalist’s Home After He Refuses To Name Source

San Francisco police raided the home and office of a freelance journalist on Friday, taking a sledgehammer to the gate of his house and seizing his computers, phones and other devices. A spokesman for the San Francisco police said the “search warrant executed Friday was granted by a judge and conducted as part of a criminal investigation into the illegal release of the confidential Adachi police report.” “That this search was carried out weeks after Carmody declined a request from San Francisco police to divulge his sources shows an alarming disregard for the right to gather and report on information,” the committee wrote.

Source: www.npr.org

Show HN: PiShot – capture high-speed strobe images using a Raspberry Pi camera

Show HN: PiShot – capture high-speed strobe images using a Raspberry Pi camera

PiShot allows capturing high-speed strobe images using the Raspberry Pi Camera. PiShot makes use of a $5 Raspberry Pi and $5 Camera module to get a similar effect. Our setup is shown below,

The Pi camera modules (and any cheap camera really) have a rolling shutter instead of a global shutter.

Source: github.com

Lenovo launches HoloLens competitor

Lenovo launches HoloLens competitor

There are two parts to the new ThinkReality system — the AR headset and a software platform. Lenovo claims this is “one of the lightest fully featured AR headsets in its class,” and during a brief trial with a non-working model, I certainly found the A6 lightweight. What makes the ThinkReality more than just a HoloLens wannabe is the software platform that Lenovo is launching alongside.

Source: www.engadget.com

The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’

On 3 June 1957, plainclothes police officers purchased a copy of Howl and Other Poems from City Lights Books, and subsequently Ferlinghetti and Murao (the store manager) were charged, under Californian law, with the sale of ‘obscene and indecent’ material. Despite being a committed Christian and a social conservative, Justice Brennan concluded that Howl and Other Poems was a lawful publication and that, in this instance, the right to free speech should not be abridged. The People v Ferlinghetti recounts the story of the court case in an approachable but thorough manner, and draws valuable attention to how uncensored radio broadcast of ‘Howl’ on American public radio is currently impossible due to obscenity regulation, despite the fact that in print, cinema, television and press (and on the internet) such restrictions are non-existent or less severe.

Source: www.spiked-online.com

Lenovo Announces HoloLens Competitor

Lenovo Announces HoloLens Competitor

There are two parts to the new ThinkReality system — the AR headset and a software platform. Lenovo claims this is “one of the lightest fully featured AR headsets in its class,” and during a brief trial with a non-working model, I certainly found the A6 lightweight. What makes the ThinkReality more than just a HoloLens wannabe is the software platform that Lenovo is launching alongside.

Source: www.engadget.com

Algorithmic Analysis Shows That Pop Music Is Sadder and Angrier Than Ever

Algorithmic Analysis Shows That Pop Music Is Sadder and Angrier Than Ever

To give some examples of this phenomenon, Shamir pointed to a string of hits in the 1950s with the dominant feelings of ‘joy’ – songs like Elvis Presley’s All Shook Up, which scored 0.702 for that emotion, or Little Richard’s Long Tall Sally, which scored 0.82. Batt agrees that a more negative tone in today’s pop music also might reflect social changes, though – and even if the reactions to political events are not overtly expressed as protest songs, they may still influence the overall mood. The composer tunes into the zeitgeist, and the resulting sadness or anger is, in turn, more appealing to us as consumers, who recognise our own feelings within the music and lyrics and propel those songs to the top of the charts.

Source: www.bbc.com

California jury says Bayer must pay $2B to couple in Roundup cancer trial

California jury says Bayer must pay $2B to couple in Roundup cancer trial

(Reuters) – A California jury on Monday awarded more than $2 billion to a couple who claimed Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused their cancer, in the largest U.S. jury verdict to date against the company in litigation over the chemical. It was the third consecutive U.S. jury verdict against the company in litigation over the chemical, which Bayer acquired as part of its $63 billion purchase of Monsanto last year. Shareholders have rebuked the company’s top management over its handling of the Monsanto acquisition and the litigation it inherited, which has wiped around 30 billion euros ($33.55 billion) from Bayer’s market value since the first jury verdict.

Source: www.reuters.com

Documentary About Pedophile Priests Shakes Up Poland

Documentary About Pedophile Priests Shakes Up Poland

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A new documentary revealing cases of sexual abuse by priests has deeply shaken Poland, one of Europe’s most Roman Catholic societies, eliciting an apology from the church hierarchy and prompting one cleric to leave priestly life. The documentary presents new evidence that priests who were known to be pedophiles were transferred between parishes instead of pushed out of the church or referred to police. The film also alleges that the Rev. Dariusz Olejniczak, a priest who was sentenced for molesting 7-year-old girls, was allowed to continue working with young people.

Source: www.apnews.com

The Real Story of the Dutch Tulip Bubble Is More Fascinating than the Myth

The Real Story of the Dutch Tulip Bubble Is More Fascinating than the Myth

She tells the real—and equally fascinating—story of the tulip bubble to Barron’s Sarah Green Carmichael, in the pilot episode of a possible new podcast for Barron’s on the history of finance. One of the things that I found is that people who are collectors of tulip bulbs often are collectors of paintings as well,” Anne Goldgar says. But Anne Goldgar says the tulip bubble shook Dutch society in a different way.

Source: www.barrons.com