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What happens when leaders choose political expediency over science?

If I learned one thing in 25 years of running design and education companies, it's that idealism isn't a business strategy. If you wonder why my partners and I had to shut down organizations we and lots of you loved, refer to the previous sentence.

The web is still the best hope we have for a durable, shared memory. But it requires us to be gardeners, not merely tenants.

ON THIS DAY in 1971, Pamela Courson found Doors frontman Jim Morrison dead in the bathtub of their Paris apartment. The cause of death was heart failure. No autopsy was performed. Morrison was 27. A year before, a teenaged me had watched the Doors ...

STOP ME if you've heard this one: The members of an extended family spend years curating a shared online photo album. Then the website they posted on vanishes, flushing their collective memories away forever.