The philosophers he influenced set the stage for the technological revolution that remade our world. Read the full text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/aristotle-computer/518697/

How Aristotle Created the Computer - The Atlantic - Chris Dixon

Will you pay more for those shoes before 7 p.m.? Would the price tag be different if you lived in the exurbs? Standard prices and simple discounts are yielding to far more exotic strategies, designed to extract every last dollar from you.

Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/how-online-shopping-makes-suckers-of-us-all/521448/

How Online Shopping Makes Suckers of Us All - The Atlantic - Jerry Useem

In 2050 the world population will be 10 billion. Can everyone eat without destroying the Earth?

How Will We Feed the New Global Middle Class? - The Atlantic - Charles C. Mann

Decades before he ran the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort’s pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for the corruption of Washington.

Paul Manafort, American Hustler - The Atlantic - Franklin Foer

Science suggests we’re hardwired to delude ourselves. Can we do anything about it?

Your Lying Mind - The Atlantic - Ben Yagoda

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Inside a barn in a Blizzard with snowfall and hails. Leistila Fields, Western Finland. Listen with headphones only.

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(MKH8020 ab60cm, MixPre3, 32>24/48, nothing else done in edit, flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

A Barn in a Blizzard - 13/4/2020 - Leistila Fields

Hôtel Costes Presents... continues its Studio HC project with the ‘On Met Les Voiles’ LP by Les Coeurs Brisés.

For the fourth long player in the Studio HC series Hotel Costes Presents... introduces a new collaborative guise from some of the key figures from the project, namely Adrien De Maublanc, Adrien Boisseau and Julien Quentin who here form Les Coeurs Brisés.

The project was born out of heartbreak as Boisseau and Quentin both
suffered breakups just before hitting the album was due to be recorded, the result is a raw, emotionally fuelled long player much of which was captured in the moment with one take and embraces all the technical glitches, grounding noise, unexpected quirks and nuances that come with recording on the fly.

‘On Met Les Voiles’ sees the trio once again exploring a modern classical/jazz meets electronic aesthetic, ranging from delicate keys on closing cut ‘La Haut’ through to the more electronic leaning styles of ‘Dans La Tempete’ and its swirling bass line and ‘De Bon Matin’ with its bumpy breaks, choppy bass stabs and airy piano lines.
The artists also explore more glitched-out ambient leaning styles on tracks like opener ‘Tout Doux’ title-cut ‘On Met Les Voiles’ and ‘Et Plonge’ which lay focus on textural synths, modular whirrs, minute percussive flutters and stunning intricacies from the organic instruments. Once again Studio HC delivers a forward thinking take on classic influences.

Hotel Costes presents...On Met Les Voiles

Tout Doux

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What a strange, odd, mixed-up year it has been.  The yellow spanner of Covid-19 really wrecked a lot of plans. I was all booked to travel to Estonia to record, but it had to be cancelled.   Very noticeable was the sunlight, perhaps it was because there was few jet trails, but when the day was cloudless the sunlight could be absolutely dazzling, it had the strange effect of making it feel like we were living in paradise.     Because of the restrictions I am so glad the woods is only within a moderate cycle distance from my home.  I am very fortunate that I have two fairly good places to record relatively close by.  I even found a wild sand dune area not even five kilometers away,  I hope to record more there in the future.   Disc 1 track 2 is from a much longer recording, it is probably one of the best recordings made during the 2020 season, I had made a few recordings, near the stream, then a bit less close, then a bit further away and another even further away, as I wanted a sound where the stream was a suggestion rather than really dominating the sound picture.  The Blue Tits nested in a cavity block in the wall of my home, there is an vent on the inside of the block, so I only needed to place the microphone up to that to get a fantastic close perspective recording.  
I include two recordings of the Blue tits as they sounded so different when I recorded them a week later.  Sometimes I would get great results by leaving the old Marantz recorder hidden in a bushy place while I go not too far away to record with the new recorder, I love how I had no idea of what it has captured for me, only later when the track loaded on the computer did I get to see if it captured anything worthwhile.  This was the case with Blackbird - alarm calls (Track 3 on disc 2).  I think the peaks came in at about minus six db.  This year was my first time to use Contact microphones and a Hydrophone.    
At the beginning of April my dad Desmond died, he was 89, a great age.  Apart from Covid, we could see he wasn’t going to live much longer, he had been deteriorating noticeably for months up to that.  Why then are the covers for the two discs so strange ?  
A birdsong production should have birds on it !   My dad was big into sun power and indeed wind power even long before it became popular.  Over by my workshop he had placed a few sun power panels on the wall, these were wired into a small room to a panel on the wall with six switches.  I thought it a good way to remember him by including a picture of part of his panel for disc one front cover.  I was going to include the six switches in the picture, but my heart of hearts said no, it didn’t look good, too much scruffy brown, but I include it in the zipped folder (If you are buying it on Bandcamp)so you can see what I am talking about.  I had almost chosen it, as it occurred to me one morning that the six switches are like the levels of lockdown (I hate that term, but I have to use it here) thankfully we didn’t have a level six, maybe that is like in a movie I saw where the authorities came and boarded up a house with the people still inside.  In the end I used the part of the photo with the meter.   
The butterflies . . . Dessie we call him, was always interested in butterflies, that is where I got my interest in nature, as a child he used to bring us for walks up along the canal to see the wild flowers and butterflies.  The picture comes from one drawer of his small collection of Irish butterflies he put together maybe around the late 1940’s or 1950’s ??  Very few of them are even in one piece now, this drawer just looked the part, it was all mixed up and spoiled like the year had been, the summer we never really had, at least not the way we wanted or had planned it.

Paul Manafort, American Hustler - The Atlantic - Franklin Foer

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