Technology & Innovation — May 14, 2010

Privacy Pique

“The most frustrating thing about Facebook’s privacy policy is that it’s always changing,” writes Farhad Manjoo. The company should better respect users’ desire for privacy going forward.

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“The most frustrating thing about Facebook’s privacy policy is that it’s always changing,” writes Farhad Manjoo. “You used to be able to keep your profile picture private; that’s no longer an option. You also used to be able to declare your interests without being ‘connected’ to a Facebook page about that interest—now you can’t. Things like this should never happen. Instead, if you’ve set your profile to remain ‘semi-private,’ all of the site’s changes going forward should respect that choice.”

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Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

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The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

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High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

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The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

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