Alex Cornell Projects About Writing Photos Music Follow Projects About Writing Photos Music Twitter Facebook Instagram Flipped Iceberg By @alexcornell // Antarctica // 12. 29. 14 I went to Antarctica in December 2014. These rare shots capture the seldom-seen underside of an iceberg. For press…

MARKETS frequently froth and bubble, but the boom in bitcoin, a digital currency, is extraordinary. Although its price is down from an all-time high of $2,420 on May 24th, it has more than doubled in just two months. Anyone clever or lucky enough to have bought $1,000 of bitcoins in July 2010, when…

A distinct version of the Mediterranean diet is followed on the Blue Zone island of Ikaria, Greece. It emphasizes olive oil, vegetables, beans, fruit, moderate amounts of alcohol and low quantities of meat and dairy products. Gianluca Colla/Courtesy of Blue Zones Want to live to be 100? It's…

Credit: ©ISTOCKPHOTO.COM The popular conception of nuclear power is straight out of The Simpsons : Springfield abounds with signs of radioactivity, from the strange glow surrounding Mr. Burn's nuclear power plant workers to Homer's low sperm count. Then there's the local superhero, Radioactive Man,…

OF LIFE’s two certainties, death cannot be dodged even by the well-to-do. Taxes are another matter. Quantifying quite how much they manage to keep from the taxman, however, has always been tricky. One common approach governments take is to conduct randomised audits of tax returns. This methodology…

Global Pension Timebomb: Funding Gap Set to Dwarf World GDP

阅读简体中文版 Protesters aboard a truck near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in May 1989. One appears to be in a police uniform. It was not unusual then for police officers to join the demonstrators. Credit David Chen For nearly 28 years, David Chen hid away a treasure chest of black-and-white photographs…

Dubai: The UAE’s first police robot will join Dubai Police in May and robots will make 25 per cent of the force by 2030, officials said on Monday. Brigadier Abdullah Bin Sultan, Director of the Future Shaping Centre of Dubai Police, said: “We are looking to have more robots in future to handle…

If LeSalle Munroe stands still for a few moments in his “office”, something unsettling can happen – he can hear the blood rushing around his body and his eyes squelch as they move in his skull. While many people work in places filled with the tip-tap of keyboards, the hubbub of chatter from…

Michael Barrett and Jenna Mulligan, emergency paramedics in Berkeley County, West Virginia, recently got a call that sent them to the youth softball field in a tiny town called Hedgesville. It was the first practice of the season for the girls’ Little League team, and dusk was descending. Barrett…

O ur technology-rich world has proven to be both a blessing and a curse. While on the one hand we have access to information or people anywhere at any time, on the other hand we find our attention constantly drawn by the rich, multisensory, technological environments. It all started with the…

This is going to take a while. Photographer: Frank Polich/Bloomberg Photographer: Frank Polich/Bloomberg As Vox’s Matthew Yglesias points out , the problem with high infrastructure costs is that they force us to debate the wrong things. If costs were reasonable, even skeptics would probably agree to…

Eye in the (Dubai) sky: surveillance technology makes guarding the elites cheaper than ever.Photograph: Alamy H ere’s the bad news: technology – specifically, surveillance technology – makes it easier to police disaffected populations, and that gives badly run, corrupt states enough stability to get…

Gray Matter You’re Not Going to Change Your Mind Credit Alexander Glandien A troubling feature of political disagreement in the United States today is that many issues on which liberals and conservatives hold divergent views are questions not of value but of fact. Is human activity responsible for…

Sensitive files tied to a US military project were leaked by a multi-billion dollar firm once described as the world’s most profitable spy operation , Gizmodo has confirmed. A cache of more than 60,000 files was discovered last week on a publicly accessible Amazon server, including passwords to a US…

May 31, 2017 John Boardley Recipes are as old as eating and recorded recipes date back to the invention of writing, with the most ancient examples from Mesopotamia, written in Akkadian cuneiform and dating to about 1750 BC. From late Imperial Rome, a collection of recipes from the late fourth or…

In this tutorial, I will be going through the steps on how to set up a Raspberry Pi VPN server using the OpenVPN software. I will also go into setting up various things you must do to ensure that your connection is as secure as possible by setting up encryption keys. This project can be a bit of a…

Image: A human powered student room . Golnar Abbasi. The Rise and Fall of Human Power Throughout most of history, humans have been the most important source of mechanical energy. Building cities, digging canals, producing food, washing clothes, communication and transportation: it all happened with…

DT R&D May 18, 2017 Update: We are now AKQA R&D for the latest developments on this project visit antiaiai.info Anti AI AI — Wearable Artificial Intelligence The post-truth era is just getting started. Near the end of 2017 we’ll be consuming content synthesised to mimic real people. Leaving us in a…

A Stigler Center panel explores the implications of big data for competition policy and for consumer welfare. Left to right: David Dayen, Ariel Ezrachi, Jonathan Taplin, Michele Polo, Frank Pasquale, and Tommaso Valletti. The business model at the heart of the digital economy is a simple one:…

You have the privilege of sharing the planet with the largest animal that ever lived on Earth. The great blue whale, which can be found in every ocean around the globe, is bigger than any dinosaur you've seen in a museum. Advertisement > It can weigh as much as 24 elephants and grow longer than two…

Media Partnership / Graphic Design Words: The history of the Soviet publication and science magazine Tekhnika – Molodezhi opens a window onto a wider story about the history and development of Soviet science fiction. From 1930-90, T-M magazine was the primary Soviet magazine to organise literary and…

At least three federal agencies are investigating whether the psychiatric hospital giant UHS held patients longer than medically necessary to maximize profits, a claim UHS denies. Cora Lewis / BuzzFeed News Nurses protesting outside the UHS headquarters in Pennsylvania last week. America’s largest…

Google already monitors online shopping — but now it's also keeping an eye on what people buy in physical stores as it tries to sell more digital advertising. The Internet giant said Tuesday that a new tool will track how much money people spend in merchants' bricks-and-mortar stores after clicking…

Samo and Iza Login were Slovenian high school sweethearts who studied computer science in college and then decided, in 2009, to get into the business of apps. Steve Jobs had introduced the Apple App Store the year before, and it was easy to believe that an overnight fortune was just an eccentric…

The National Security Agency under former President Barack Obama routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall, according to once…

An Apple employee poses with a personal computer in 1986. Corbis Historical / Getty Americans began the 20th century in bustles and bowler hats and ended it in velour sweatsuits and flannel shirts—the most radical shift in dress standards in human history. At the center of this sartorial revolution…

The News Corporation headquarter in April 2017 in New York, New York. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Vox's home for compelling, provocative narrative essays. Our ’90s-era business-casual clothes were a bit baggy, which may have contributed to the sense that we were children playing grown-ups, wearing…

 Design History #identity #logos #special effects #tv May 15, 2017 Christopher Jobson It goes without saying that nearly everything made with graphic design and video software was once produced using a physical process, from newspapers to TV Logos . But some TV stations and film studios took things…

FORTAZELA, Brazil — In this historic city by the sea in northeast Brazil, burn patients look as if they’ve emerged from the waves. They are covered in fish skin — specifically strips of sterilized tilapia. Doctors here are testing the skin of the popular fish as a bandage for second- and…

The Circus Leaves Town Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, say goodbye to the ‘Greatest Show on Earth’. Written by Jessica Lussenhop Photos by Charlie Northcott 18 May 2017 The air inside of a 25 foot cannon is hot and smells like metal. It’s dark and loud, and the moments before a launch -…

Lockheed Martin FORTIS K-SRD exoskeleton. It is not Iron Man . It isn’t even Iron Fist. Lockheed Martin’s newest exoskeleton is more like Iron Leg. But for a soldier humping his weapons, ammo and body armor up a mountain in Afghanistan or a high-rise building in a future urban battle , a device to…

“There is one and only one social responsibility of business,” the economist Milton Friedman famously wrote in 1962. And that is “to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.” Those words helped establish the now pervasive idea that companies are exclusively…

Humans have accidentally created a protective bubble around Earth by using very low frequency (VLF) radio transmissions to contact submarines in the ocean. It sounds nuts, but according to recent research published in Space Science Reviews , underwater communication through VLF channels has an outer…

This story was co-published with Gizmodo . Two weeks ago, on a sparkling spring morning, we went trawling along Florida’s coastal waterway. But not for fish. We parked a 17-foot motor boat in a lagoon about 800 feet from the back lawn of The Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach and pointed a 2-foot…

A Canadian city has banned an aquarium from bringing in new dolphins, whales and narwhals. The Vancouver Park Board voted to ban bringing in all new cetaceans, even if they are injured or rescued. Some people believe keeping large mammals in captivity is cruel and dangerous for the animals' health.…

Forum May 15, 2017 With Responses From Basic income might hurt the cause. Patrick Diamond What would it look like to govern technology? Annette Bernhardt Basic income would empower marginalized black workers. Tommie Shelby We should be focusing on base income. Peter Barnes Basic income should be a…