When I voted last September, I cast my first vote as a New Yorker. I didn’t think Cynthia Nixon would win in the primaries; every poll showed the queer democratic socialist losing the governor race to incumbent Andrew Cuomo (D). That said, I was hopeful and cast my vote for Nixon nonetheless, due to…

The anti-anxiety effects of ketamine are associated with specific brainwave changes, according to research published in the International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology . The study found the therapeutic effects of ketamine were linked to changes in theta brainwaves in the right frontal area of…

This text is for those who weep for what is about to come. It was written for those who perceive the darkest of nights arriving with its violence, its scorn and its appetite for vengeance. Because in these moments only two alternatives seem possible: escape and melancholy. We know the mistakes we…

in Education | October 10th, 2018 10 Comments Advertisement How should you take notes in class? Like so many students who came before me and would come after, I had little idea in college and even less in high school. The inherently ambiguous nature of the note-taking task has inspired a variety of…

Adrian Daub | Longreads | October 2018 | 16 minutes (4,170 words) Physiognomy — the attempt to interpret a person’s character by means of their face — was one of those things that educated 19th-century Europeans knew wasn’t supposed to work. In his 1806 work The Phenomenology of Spirit , philosopher…

Paul Virilio passed away on the 18 th of September 2018 at the age of 86. In this piece, Mark Lacy reflects on his life, work and contemporary relevance. Paul Virilio (1932 – 2018) is not for everyone. Books with strange, alien titles such as Negative Horizon , Polar Inertia , Bunker Archaeology and…

developmental biology To Heal Some Wounds, Adult Cells Turn More Fetal By Jordana Cepelewicz August 29, 2018 Once again, body cells reveal unexpected plasticity: In a newly discovered type of wound healing, which some researchers call “paligenosis,” adult cells revert to a more fetal state. Read…

Sebastiano Guerriero Jul 18, 2018 · 8 min read Typography is arguably the essential part of a website. When we think about the content of a web page, we think about words. In this article, we’ll take a look at how to set a typography system in CSS. This article is part of a series on design systems…

A little while ago, I wrote a well-received article about combining CSS variables with CSS grid to help build more maintainable layouts. But CSS grid isn’t just for pages! That is a common myth. Although it is certainly very useful for page layout, I find myself just as frequently reaching for grid…

Stigmergy is a term used in biology (from the work of french biologist Pierre-Paul Grasse) to describe environmental mechanisms for coordinating the work of independent actors (for example, ants use pheromones to create trails and people use weblog links to establish information paths, for others to…

John Robb Aug 12, 2016 · 3 min read Here’s a simple overview of what is increasingly becoming the dominant method of offensive warfare in the 21st Century. Early applications of this methodology to modern conflict have been very successful. In short, it’s better to understand its dynamics than to…

Joe Raedle / Getty Psychologists are in the midst of an ongoing, difficult reckoning. Many believe that their field is experiencing a “ reproducibility crisis ,” because they’ve tried and failed to repeat experiments done by their peers. Even classic results —the stuff of textbooks and TED…

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In the following commentary, psychoanalyst and professor for sociology and women studies Patricia Ticineto Clough reflects on how her recent work on the user unconscious expands on/differs from Donna Haraway’s groundbreaking essay “Cyborg Manifesto” in thinking about the human’s relation…

How do we conceive of a gender politics and feminism responsive to the technoscientic infrastructures that shape everyday life? In this long read review, Mareile Pfannebecker reflects on Xenofeminism , authored by Helen Hester , and its attempt to offer a queer- and trans-inclusive communist…

At the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, there is a small sculpture called Crossing Over by Steve Worthington, dedicated to the lives of lab animals. It depicts three mice in a boat. One stands in the bow and leans forward, peering warily into the waters of the dark river ahead. “Their…

Happy Entangled New Year! Here are some thoughts and tidbits to round off 2017 and kick off 2018… AI, Fear and Hope In 2017, there was a lot of fear in the air — not only about politics, but about technology, the companies that control it, and of course, its ultimate embodiment, artificial…

The coolest, strangest thing in quantum mechanics is entanglement . Two particles that have interacted remain a part of the same quantum system, no matter how far away from each other that may be, or even across time . It’s part of what gives quantum computers their power. You can use it to quantum…

Shower of sparks (source: Pixabay ) Check out the session "An ethical foundation for the AI-driven future" at the Strata Data Conference in New York, September 11-13, 2018. This post is part of a series on data ethics . Our lives are bathed in data: from recommendations about whom to “follow” or…

About The Author Rachel Andrew is not only Editor in Chief of Smashing Magazine, but also a web developer, writer and speaker. She is the author of a number of books, including …More about RachelAndrew … July 9, 2018 Pattern Library First: An Approach For Managing CSS Upgrade your inbox and get our…

Food 200 Acres remaining arable land Data 100 zettabytes public ledger Breathable Air 100 km 3 Dyson Sphere Cryptomining 380 yottawatts Laborers 2 million someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my planet is dying — comedyblissoption (after @dril ) Bitcoin advocates will take…

The problem is not technology or nature. The problem is how to organise societies at a global scale. Display of Neolithic artifacts. Photo: Michael Greenhalgh. via Wikimedia Commons. First published in Le Monde . Translated by David Broder . Today, it has become commonplace to predict the end of the…

Paul Krugman Transaction Costs and Tethers: Why I’m a Crypto Skeptic Opinion Columnist The bitcoin logo on display at the Consensus 2018 blockchain technology conference in New York in May. Credit Mike Segar/Reuters I’m still on vacation, hiking and biking in various parts of Europe. I’m keeping up…

Outside of the imaginations of physics teachers, frictionless devices are hard to come by. But putting a bunch of swimming bacteria into a drop of water achieves just that: a fluid with zero resistance to motion. Incredibly, that resistance (or viscosity, as it’s properly known) can even go…

Tega Brain , Artist and Assistant Professor of Integrated Digital Media, New York University Figure 1: Seagrass in Tasmania, Australia. Credit: Tega Brain. In late 2017, Microsoft’s chief environmental scientist, Lucas Joppa announced AI for Earth, a new initiative to put artificial intelligence in…

The theoretical physicist John Wheeler once used the phrase “great smoky dragon” to describe a particle of light going from a source to a photon counter. “The mouth of the dragon is sharp, where it bites the counter. The tail of the dragon is sharp, where the photon starts,” Wheeler wrote. The…

We're months removed from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the public outrage of #DeleteFacebook , and new information continues to surface about Facebook's sloppy handling of data and hunger for surveillance. Last month, we learned about an Orwellian patent that might allow Facebook to track you…

fundamental physics The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature By Natalie Wolchover July 20, 2018 New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called “octonions.” Read Later Cohl Furey, a mathematical physicist…

An interview with RYBN.ORG Max Haiven: During our the recent Navigating the City walking tour of the City of London in April you were using the Offshore Tour Operator , an open-source device you developed as part of your The Great Offshore project which seeks to make sense of the complex web of…

Firms involved in international commerce routinely contract that disputes are to be resolved by private courts of arbitration such as the International Court of Arbitration , the London Court of International Arbitration or the Singapore International Arbitration Center . These courts of arbitration…

In recent weeks I've been forced to reformulate and distill my views on AI. After my winter post went viral many people contacted me over email and on twitter with many good suggestions. Since there is now more attention to what I have to offer, I decided to write down in a condensed form what I…

Alenda Y. Chang As relayed by Ovid in The Metamorphoses , the myth of Narcissus is that of a beautiful young demigod who is destined to live a long life, unless—as the prophet Tiresias mysteriously augurs—“he discovers himself.”[1] Of course, Narcissus meets his fateful end after scorning the nymph…

There’s a lot of discussion in the music industry right now around transparency and rights management. This is in tandem with a discussion on how this would be implemented, and at the moment that discussion is being led by blockchain. As it is a relatively new technology, there’s not many who…

All Blog Posts My Blog Add Finding "Gems" in Big Data (Photo credit: Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0) In 1945, Count , Richard Taaffe * a Dublin gem collector, was sorting through a set of spinel gems that he had bought, and found one that refracted light differently - instead of simply…

TL;DR: Design systems + CSS Zen Garden = Awesome. Is it possible to create a single design system that powers wildly different-looking brands and experiences? The answer is yes! But why would you want to? Different audiences and contexts – The team at GE recently discussed the opportunities and…

Unless something zany happens in the next couple of days -always a possibility in 2018- this week's newsletter will inevitably be about the Eurozone. Also, this week's podcast is of a piece in terms of flow models and finding better frames for thinking with our point in the timeline, rather than…

Our goal: Social rights — global and concrete What is our goal in criticising growth, and why do we think it necessary in principle to sketch lines of flight for a degrowth economy at this juncture? Our goal is to establish social rights globally, such that a good life is possible for everybody. Our…

An interesting piece by Praphul Chandra on CryptoEconomics: Once you move past the speculative pricing of cryptocurrencies and ICOs, Blockchains are fundamentally a way to create economies. The ability to create new tokens or currencies (monetary policy) and to distribute and allocate these tokens…

From design books to one-off products to the occasional full product ecosystem, we constantly find ourselves featuring independent designers that have reached success based on surpassing their Kickstarter or Indiegogo funding goals. In addition to the classic…

Conversation : TECHNOLOGY Until fairly recently, artificial intelligence didn’t learn. To create a machine that learns to think more efficiently was a big challenge. In the same sense, one of the things that I wonder about is how we'll be able to teach a machine to know what it doesn’t know that it…