READ THESE FIVE THINGS NOW! - Issue #607

Fourteen years ago, Kevin Kelly famously proposed that an artist could make a living online with a thousand true fans. Has time proved him correct?

I watched a documentary about this race a while ago - it's just crazy. And it's really interesting what humans can accomplish. I kinda want to run this race, but I'm probably not that crazy.

Barack Obama won the state twice. Now Democrats are an endangered species there. Since I spent a very important year in Iowa, this really sickens me.

He tried to save his wife through the video game they loved—and nearly lost himself. Then he signed up to lead a fledgling team of gamers in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Neuroscientists uncovered an energy-saving mode in vision-system neurons that works at the cost of being able to see fine-grained details. Sometimes I feel I'm in this low-power mode for quite a while...

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