Tuesday’s Interests: Symphony of the Seas, Silicon Valley Housing, and a Small Vermont Town looking for its Heart and Soul

Tuesday’s interests are all about Business & Technology.  While the Symphony of the Seas impresses, Silicon Valley housing prices explode, and a Vermont town is looking for its heart and a soul.

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• In Vermont : Only a porch, with a bench for sitting, and next to it an ice machine. Or, rather, an IEC machine. “One year they sent a guy up to replace the unit. He was a big guy, as you’d expect, but not too bright,” said Dick. “He put in the machine, and then he put on the letters, I-E-C. I watched him do it. I was fascinated.” Over time the sign became an emblem. Ten years later, when the ice company replaced the machine, ICE was spelled right, but Dick carefully cut out his own letters and restored the sign to the original so no one would be disappointed.

read

• The dizzying story of Symphony of the Seas, the largest and most ambitious cruise ship ever built (Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wired)
• Your Future Home Might Be Powered By Car Batteries (Stephen Stapczynski)
• HQ: Inside the Game Show App Phenomenon (Molly Fitzpatrick, Rolling Stone)
• Good luck leaving your Uber driver less than five stars (Alison Griswold, Quartz)
• Silicon Valley’s Astronomical Housing Price Creates a Problem for Startups (Sissi Cao)
• Vermont Town Seeks a Heart, and Soul (Also Milk and Eggs) (Bill McKibben, New York Times)
• What is good science?  Demanding that a theory is falsifiable or observable, without any subtlety, will hold science back. We need madcap ideas. (Sally Davies, aeon)
• When the Heavens Stopped Being Perfect (Alan Lightman, Nautilus)
• How Do You Know You Are Reading This? (Jason Pontin, Wired)

listen

• Why your Uber rating’s more important than you think – Tech weekly podcast

watch

•  Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire

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