Dear friends, Wired offers us how to be culturally literate in 2016… Meanwhile, “UC Berkeley issues first-ever university transparency report- Literati roundup…

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What You Need to Know to Be Culturally Literate in 2016

Wired Top Stories by Robert Capps

Here’s a cheat sheet of everything you need to know to understand what’s happening in science, culture, security, business, and design. Feel free to take notes.

UC Berkeley issues first-ever university transparency report

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

April writes, “The University of California-Berkeley has become the first university in the United States to publish a set of transparency reports that detail government requests for student, faculty, and staff data.”

Drones, pirates, everyday racism. An interview with graphic designer Ruben Pater

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Pater is a graphic designer who gave himself the mission to create visual narratives about complex political issues. He is not only interested in flying machines of death but also in disaster floods caused by global warming, Dutch sweets that evoke everyday racism, fishermen vs oil tankers, citizen journalism in countries with censorship, digital surveillance, etc continue

Two American Authors Make Shortlist for 2015 Man Booker Prize

Writerswrite.com’s Writer’s Blog

American authors Anne Tyler and Hanya Yanagihara have made the shortlist for the 2015 Man Booker Prize, which carries a $80,000 cash award.

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Turks and wearable technologies (!) – A social fabric roundup…

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1. Apple Türkiye şubesinden giyilebilir etek

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AP’s Turkey Archive from the Capture of Deniz Gezmiş to 1999 Marmara Earthquake

Bianet :: English

bianet compiled 13 videos from AP’s archive: the moment when Deniz Gezmiş was captured, 1980 Coup d’état, Erdoğan’s imprisonment, police violence in 1990s and others…

Irish-Kuwaiti ‘boxing’ tourist had surgery to repair skull fracture, Turkish reporter claims

The Kuwait-born Irish tourist who was captured on video taking on a mob of 15 shopkeepers in Istanbul has undergone an operation to repair a skull fracture

In Photos: Turkey solemnly celebrates Victory Day amid clashes with outlawed PKK

Turkey marks the 93rd anniversary of its victory against Greece in the final battle of the War of Independence amid clashes with the outlawed PKK.

Police shoot dead teenager at checkpoint in Turkey’s southeast

A 16-year-old boy has shot dead by police after he failed to stop his car despite a warning in Turkey’s tense southeastern province of Mardin.

‘Running from death’: Refugees pack streets of Turkey

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Thousands of Syrians wait in Turkey’s coastal city of Izmir to make the hazardous boat trip to Europe.

Female soldier tells mourning mother ‘rich people don’t become soldiers, don’t die’

A non-commissioned female officer, accompanying the mother of a killed soldier during his funeral, took the attention of the media when she said that rich people would not become soldiers nor be martyred, while trying to soothe the mother’s pain.

Unauthorized drone flying over Anıtkabir causes panic

An unauthorized octocopter drone flying over Anıtkabir during the Victory Day celebrations caused panic while the army considered shooting down the drone

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