Art 24.01.2019, 18:04 · Aktualisiert: 24.01.2019, 18:04 Verkehrte Welt? Alex Baur Ein übergroßes Huhn isst menschliche Arme aus einem großen Pappbecher, Dutzende nackte Frauen mit Milchpumpen an den Brüsten müssen stillstehen: Die Künstlerin Barbara Daniels zeigt in ihren Zeichnungen reale…

Continue reading the main story It’s Time to Blow Up Our ‘Always On’ Work Culture Sick of round-the-clock work emails and Slack messages? Here’s some hope. Dr. Newport is the author of “Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World.” A German entrepreneur named Lasse Rheingans has…

SIGN UP TODAY Key takeaways: Net-a-Porter and Selfridges are among retailers looking to promote the sustainable attributes of items they carry with proprietary labels. Most of the labels are based on already-established initiatives, like Fairtrade and the EU Ecolabel, but critics claim financial…

One Nation, TRACKED What We Found Protect Yourself Coming Soon: National Security How It Works One Neighborhood Solutions Protests Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are…

Big Ideas We explore the benefits of solitude and how to integrate downtime during the busiest time of the year. 0 Over Thanksgiving break, I read Cal Newport’s latest book, Digital Minimalism , in which he urges us to engage in regular periods of solitude. “We need solitude to thrive as human…

Fashion apparel sales are down 4% in the United States overall, according to research by NPD Group Inc. But, there is one category of apparel that continues to grow—outdoor apparel. In fact, Euromonitor International data shows that the outdoor apparel category is expected to grow 9.4 percent…

In his book “1984,” George Orwell imagined that Big Brother-type surveillance would be imposed on us by a violent state. But it’s becoming clear that, in fact, we are eager participants in building our own dystopia, purchasing the very devices that constantly monitor, track and record us simply for…

Did you ever imagine that an “Ice Cream” could shake the entire General Motors? In 2010, the Pontiac Division of General Motors received a very funny complaint from one of its customers. It was so weird & bizarre that it took the entire General Motors by storm. However, on reading the entire Case,…

Andy Mumford Dolomites , Equipment , Fujifilm , Landscapes , REVIEWS , Video BEST FUJIFILM LANDSCAPE LENS - 10-24MM LONG TERM REVIEW - VIDEO November 1, 2019 Andy Mumford Dolomites , Equipment , Fujifilm , Landscapes , REVIEWS , Video The very first lens I bought when I switched to the Fuji system 4…

Throughout my grade school years I noticed a pattern: wheneverclasses started again, sleep became much more enjoyable. It felt like such a gift to discover, by peeking at my alarmclock, that I had another eighteen sweet minutes of blanket-time before thealarm went. Each one was a treat. Obviously,…

Margrethe Vestager won praise for her oversight of the tech industry. Now, with more authority from the European Union, she envisions a more aggressive agenda. “We do not leave it to market forces to have the final say,” Margrethe Vestager said. Credit... Ans Brys for The New York Times BRUSSELS —…

I love spring. Emerging from the lethargy of our cold, dark winters in northwest Montana, I always look forward to the fresh smells, vibrant colors and returning sunlight ushering in the new season. I also love the traditions that mark this period of change, serving as welcoming portals to the next…

In 3Q 2014 Google had $16.5 billion in revenue and $2.8 billion in profit. I proceeded to write an article entitled Peak Google . Fast forward to last quarter, and Google had $36 billion in revenue and $6.7 billion in profit, increases of 118% and 139% respectively. It is difficult to imagine being…

Imagine you’re taking an online business class — the kind where you watch video lectures and then answer questions at the end. But this isn’t a normal class, and you’re not just watching the lectures: They’re watching you back. Every time the facial recognition system decides that you look bored,…

This is about being nice to people and a lot of it is obvious and it’s a bit worthy but I tried. (Also the next two physical letters were sent, bringing the total to 4.) There’s a place called Ricebrother in Spitalfields Market, an old covered market in London now fully weaponised to separate young…

Our brains employ two modes of thinking to tackle any large task: focused and diffuse. Both are equally valuable but serve very different purposes. To do your best work, you need to master both . *** As she lost consciousness of outer things…her mind kept throwing up from its depths, scenes, and…

Environment Short Film Showcase In 2018 Dan Raven-Ellison traveled the length of Great Britain with the mission of discovering what the country really looks like from above. The UK in 100 Seconds shows houses, bogs, fields, forests, and pastures with each second representing a percentage of land…

© 1996-2015 National Geographic Society, © 2015- 2019 National Geographic Partners, LLC. All rights reserved Almost 50 years ago, fried chicken tycoon David Bamberger used his fortune to purchase 5,500 acres of overgrazed land in the Texas Hill Country. Planting grasses to soak in rains and fill…

Edward Snowden recently released his memoirs . In some parts of the Internet, this has rekindled an ancient debate: namely, was it all worth it? Did Snowden’s leaks make us better off, or did Snowden just embarass us and set back U.S. security by decades? Most of the arguments are so familiar that…

It's good to occasionally be reminded that the real world doesn't exist behind a screen. As a digital product designer, I spend most of my time looking at and creating things for screens. Even if you're not a designer, odds are you spend much of your time doing the same. When I inevitably look-up…

Wherever you find advocates for saner transportation, their dream scenario usually hinges on the same outcome: making cities blissfully free of cars . To this end, the Spanish city of Pontevedra, population 84,000, has done something remarkable: it has reduced car use in its historic core by 90…

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2015 http://gotochgo.com Ben Christensen - Software Engineer at Netflix ABSTRACT Rarely do we have a chance to rewrite an application from scratch with the newest techniques. Generally we must work within our existing architectures evolving and…

Ben Thomas Jul 27, 2018 Viktor Frankl, author of “Man’s Search for Meaning” Around our teenage years, some of us may grapple with the question over what exactly is the meaning of life. Such questioning may lead to very depressing results, namely that life appears devoid of meaning. Others may find…

Sebastiaan de With Follow Feb 1, 2018 · 17 min read This is the second in a series of posts on RAW photography on iPhone. I previously wrote about what RAW is by explaining a little on how cameras work, how you can use RAW, and what some key tradeoffs of using RAW are. New to this series? I suggest…

I get asked a lot about “tips for alleviating burnout,” and if you’ve been reading this newsletter for awhile, you know I have a few: put your phone on airplane mode before you go into the bedroom; don’t listen to podcasts on walks; dedicate time to hang out with your own mind. But the biggest one…

Wenbin Fang Follow Jan 24, 2018 · 10 min read Listen Notes is a podcast search engine and database. The technology behind Listen Notes is actually very very boring. No AI, no deep learning, no blockchain. “Any man who must say I am using AI is not using True AI” :) After reading this post, you…

What happens when we view glacier science within their cultural and social contexts? How can we use a feminist lens to examine glaciers and people in context together, understand how glacier stories are produced, circulated, and gain credibility and authority across time and space? A feminist lens…

How design practice can work better for people, services and cities together, and not simply individuals. Dan Hill Feb 2 Ed. This paper was written to accompany a speech I gave to open the ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces 2018 conference in Tokyo, November 2018. It was published in the…

Images from the installation “Mitigation of Shock” by Superflux Perhaps the best, or maybe worst, place to start is by exposing my greatest fear. I am scared of death. But not as scared as I used to be. From around the age of 10 to my early teens I collected, in the archive of my head, hundreds of…

This week saw the launch of a new book by Shoshana Zuboff entitled The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: the fight for a human future at the new frontier of power . It was featured in two of my favourite newspapers, The Observer and the The New York Times , and is the kind of book I would have lapped…

‘Technology is the puppet, but surveillance capitalism is the puppet master.’Photograph: Getty Images W e’re living through the most profound transformation in our information environment since Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of printing in circa 1439. And the problem with living through a revolution…

Save Our Food. Free the Seed. Photo Illustrations by Jamie Chung These are the seeds of a revolution. Each dot above represents a seed company from the 1990s. By 2018, they were all wholly or partly owned by Monsanto, then the largest seed producer in the world. Last year, Monsanto was acquired by…

“Anything you want. Anyone you want. Anywhere you want. Anyway! Anyway!” —Priests, “Pink White House” (2017) Imagine you are in an airport, and you have forgotten to eat lunch. It’s a mistake you will pay for with a dull, expensive dinner. Hungry, meandering, you happen upon one of those iPads that…

During NYCxDesign, the design industry’s equivalent of fashion week, some of the smartest concepts presented were actually trash. But you’d never know it–and as recycled materials grow up, that’s kind of the point. In the wake of the environmental and financial crises of the past decade, designers…

Here’s an application for 3D printing that will probably be more useful to most people than trinkets, homemade guns, and prototype parts: Floors. The Dutch company Aectual is using huge robots to make cool, completely customizable floors designed to be walked on by hundreds of thousands of people in…

Google is so embedded in the infrastructure of the web that you don’t always know when it’s there–but Google isn’t just tracking your movements online so it can sell ads. It also provides Google Analytics , which helps other companies and individuals identify who visits their websites, along with a…

Serving Green Greening the web. It's a thing. Actually, it's a huge, big thing. Geothermal power facilities currently generate 25% of Iceland’s total electricity production. The internet will soon be responsible for nearly 1 billion tonnes of CO 2 or 10% of global electricity usage. 1 Introduction…