Ever since the U.S. Senate failed to convict Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 insurrection and disqualify him from running for president again, a lot of people, myself included, have been warning that a second Trump term could bring about the extinction of American democracy. Essential…

Unfassbar, aber wahr: Auch in Deutschland kommt die Digitalisierung an. Mittlerweile sogar in Arztpraxen. Termine buchen, Akten durchsuchen, Krankschreibungen und Abrechnungen ausstellen – das alles kann mit einer Software erledigt werden. Die kennt dann Praxen und Patient*innen sehr gut – sehr,…

In our world, we can do anything that we want to do here. Any old thing.- Bob Ross, The Joy Of Painting Season 29 Episode 1 Watching a vibrant Seattle sunset the other day, my imagination started running. The otherworldly hue of the sky evoked something from science fiction. The hazy orange-purple…

Aerodynamics are an important factor in gravel racing and riding. Gravel racing speeds are high—the fastest riders in the 200-mile Unbound average 20 mph (32 km/h) across the Flint Hills of Kansas. And many gravel races can be extremely windy. Optimizing the aerodynamics of a gravel bike is…

The blank screen was already intimidating enough. Then, out of nowhere, an incorporeal know-it-all popped up to make us feel even worse about the novel notion of word processing in the mid-’90s. “It looks like you’re writing a letter,” a googly-eyed, caterpillar-browed paperclip in Microsoft Word…

A love letter to tools that changed everything for me. Programming over the years Programming got vastly more varied compared to when I started dabbling in AmigaBASIC in the mid-1990s. Back then you could buy one very big book about the computer you’re programming and were 99% there. That book, full…

part 1 | you are here | part 3 | part 4 After our time milling around the Mercury cafeteria, it was back aboard the coach to enter the test site proper. As our guide explained, the NNSS can be divided into work areas such as Mercury and the range itself. On the days that tests were scheduled,…

part 1 | part 2 | you are here | part 4 I said up front that the NNSS remains in use for several different purposes, although the level of activity today is not nearly as high as it once was. To my best ability to remember the numbers, I think we were told that during the period of active testing…

part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | you are here And now, the conclusion. Lunch at the Nevada National Security Site is a strange experience of its own. Our coach dropped us off at the Bistro, a second, smaller cafeteria located further into the site and thus more conveniently to many of the workers in the…

you are here | part 2 | part 3 | part 4 I promised a travelogue, and here we go. I'm not exactly a travel writer, but I was recently able to visit a place that's fairly difficult to get to, so I think it's worth sharing my observations. I started writing this because I thought there should be more…

This story was featured in The Must Read, a newsletter in which our editors recommend one can’t-miss GQ story every weekday. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Press play to listen to this story: John Lovedale is feeling pretty good, despite the fact that he should not be walking right now. It’s…

Unless you have skipped a lot of school, or work, or both – or you live in the USA – you have probably used an A4 sheet of paper before now. Have you ever wondered why it is the shape or size it is? Time to dust off some high-school level maths to investigate. Just in case you have never actually…

Share An array of supercomputers crunching the fiendishly complex windtunnel data of 121 terracotta cyclists has revealed that a rider in the sweet-spot of a peloton experiences up to ten times less air resistance than previously assumed. It’s long been known that an average person on a bicycle is a…

State of the Map 2022 Ilya Zverev OSM Mapping Playlists: 'sotm2022' videos starting here / audio 26 min 2022-08-20 2022-09-19 167 Fahrplan OpenStreetMap is a collector's dream. While there is a finite set of stamps or coins, there are millions of shops and beauty salons, and new ones are opened…

Hello Autopians! Have you ever wondered why designers show sketches of concept cars with massive deep dish wheels, but when those cars actually make it to production the wheels end up being fairly flat? Adrian Clarke talked about this recently from a designers point of view, but I’m going to tell…

Editor’s Note: This story earned the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. As a therapist for children who are being processed through the American immigration system, Cynthia Quintana has a routine that she repeats each time she meets a new patient in her office in Grand Rapids, Michigan:…

A talk about chunked storage using N5 and Fiji given for the 2022 From Images to Knowledge conference. https://www.i2kconference.org/ https://imagej.net/ https://github.com/saalfeldlab/n5

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In a race for your life from a belligerent madman, there is no worse getaway vehicle than a recumbent bicycle. Particularly on any sort of climb. At least that’s what Alan* and I discovered as we crept up a desolate stretch of Arizona highway, necks craning behind us to see if the knife-wielding…

Seth Hettena, of Rolling Stone, on Twitter: Erik Prince’s latest venture is the Unplugged phone, an $850 standalone mobile device with its own app suite that’s being developed in Israel and will allow “patriots to communicate securely.” Unplugged says it is based in Cyprus. Prince is best known for…

Archaeologists excavate the remains of friars buried at the former Augustinian friary in central Cambridge. Cambridge Archaeological Unit The Augustinian friars of medieval Britain pledged themselves to a life of poverty, but their friaries offered a pretty high standard of communal living. The…

Like what you’re reading? Subscribe to The Atavist Magazine today for access to our full archive. Follow the Leader In the waning days of the Cold War, Rainer Sonntag helped fuel a neo-Nazi movement that still plagues Germany today. He was also a Communist spy—and worked for Vladimir Putin. By Leigh…

Wer in Russland etwas im Internet sucht, wird den Begriff vielleicht googeln. Doch wahrscheinlicher wird er oder sie den Begriff yandexen. Yandex.ru ist mit 60 Prozent Markt­anteil die führende russische Such­maschine. Doch ihre Startseite ist viel mehr als das: Sie ist quasi das Eintritts­tor zum…

Bronsch­hofen, Kanton St. Gallen, Studio von Stricker-TV: Rechnen mit Daniel Stricker. Das ist gar nicht so einfach. Denn wenn es um seine Ein­nahmen geht, wird der Mann, der den Medien vorwirft, gekauft zu sein, plötzlich sehr wortkarg. Wir sagen, wir vermuten, dass er eigentlich ziemlich viel Geld…

It's not "ego." It's a claim that you encounter a lot—an insult really—that people are buying bigger and bigger trucks to compensate for… something. Here's one particularly cringeworthy example, because the person making it doesn't seem to realize the go-kart he's praising doesn't meet US emissions…

Story by Visuals by Stephen Lam | Updated: May 12, 2022 2:19 p.m. From the moment he applied for his job at the warehouse two years ago, Hamid Hayat worried that his co-workers would find out about hi

Good Gaming – Well played, Democracy: Die rechtsalternativen Verschwörungsfantasien von „Call of Duty“ Die erfolgreiche Shooter-Serie ist mit ihrem aktuellen Teil „Cold War“ von mal mehr, mal weniger cleverer Provokation endgültig in Revisionismus und rechtsalternatives Verschwörungsraunen…

April 26, 2017 What Bullets Do to Bodies x x x By Jason Fagone x x x April 26, 2017 The gun debate would change in an instant if Americans witnessed the horrors that trauma surgeons confront every day. Photographs by Finlay Mackay 1 The first thing Dr. Amy Goldberg told me is that this article would…

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . None of them noticed the fall. One moment, Adam Rawski was with them on the mountain. The next, he was gone. It was May 24, 2021, around Day 15 of their trek up Denali,…

Photographing the vivid landscape at White Sands, New Mexico Can't say what I'm doing here But I hope to see much clearer After living in the material world — George Harrison Landmarks and navigation Thanks for reading Worldbuilder! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. In a…

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In June of 2022, the level in Lake Mead, the largest water reservoir in the United States formed by the Hoover Dam, reached yet another all-time low of 175 feet or 53 meters below full, a level that hasn’t been seen since the lake…

This story is adapted from The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media, by Kevin Driscoll. For more than two decades, dial-up bulletin board systems, or BBSs, were a primary form of popular networked computing in North America. The creators and maintainers of BBSs, known as system operators or…

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . On a balmy Thursday in March 2020, just before the coronavirus pandemic upended the world, a 911 call came into the Palo Alto Police Department. The caller told the…

Put oil back underground Humanity has emitted hundreds of gigatonnes of CO₂. Put it back underground with Charm. Subscribe to learn how you can be a part of the journey Grow Charm collects agricultural residues after the crop has been harvested Pyrolyze Charm builds pyrolyzers to convert biomass…

I’m lying on a table in Istanbul and a doctor I’ve never met is about to cut 4,250 holes in my head. He might be a doctor. I think he’s a doctor? The procedure will take six hours. I have no friends or family within 5,000 miles. But in other ways I’m not alone. Thousands have joined me. We’re from…

Share Published Jul. 13, 2022 • 4:03pm When Ryan Eastman was growing up in Petaluma, transfixed by the Tour de France on television, he never dreamed that his love of bicycles would lead him to a career partly spent scrounging for stolen two-wheelers in less-than-savory locales across San Francisco.…