Weekly Filet #168: The Organ Detective. And more.
A disorienting «descent into Hades» – this is how anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes describes her years of research into the international black market for organs. Don't read this on an empty stomach, but do read it.
→ The Organ Detective: A Career Spent Uncovering a Hidden Global Market in Human Flesh (Pacific Standard)
Every single time I'm in a big city, it strikes me how broken city traffic is. This sounds like an interesting project: Helsinki wants to integrate public transport and on demand car services into one network that will render car ownership obsolete.
→ Helsinki's ambitious plan to make car ownership pointless in 10 years (The Guardian)
A highly intriguing visualisation: How Americans' year of birth influenced their politcial views later in life. Would love to see this for other countries.
→ How Birth Year Influences Political Views (The Upshot)
«Because if robots and AI replace people for many of the things we do today, the new fields we create will be built on the huge number of people those robots and AI systems made available.»
→ This is Probably a Good Time to Say That I Don’t Believe Robots Will Eat All the Jobs...(Marc Andreessen)
An update for your painting is available, do you want to install it? I need one of those: Electric Objects will be the canvas for art that comes via an API.
→ Electric Objects: A Computer Made for Art (Kickstarter)