Big Think Home Please, don’t build another Large Hadron Collider A next-generation LHC++ could cost $100 billion. Here's why such a machine could end up being a massive waste of money. by June 6, 2022 Credit: francescodemarco / Adobe Stock Here’s some inside baseball about physics research. High…

Color is among the most challenging aspects of our experience to describe. Spectrophotometers and colorimeters can quantify light waves, yet their measurements have little impact on our feeling for color. As the philosopher Zeno Vendler put it, “Vincent van Gogh loved the color yellow—and certainly…

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The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Fourteen years ago, a dozen geeks gathered around our dining table for Tagsgiving dinner. No, that’s not a typo. In 2005, my husband and I celebrated Thanksgiving as “Tagsgiving,” in honor of the web technology that had given birth to…

There is hardly a boy or a girl alive who is not keenly interested in finding out about things. And that’s exactly what chemistry is: Finding out about things—finding out what things are made of and what changes they undergo. What things? Any thing! Every thing! —The Golden Book of Chemistry…

Quick side bar: Wikipedia defines a Ponzi Scheme as such: A Ponzi scheme (/ˈpɒnzi/, Italian: [ˈpontsi]) is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme This is exactly how Bitcoin…

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DigitalSchweizSchweiz könnte «Chatkontrolle» durch die Hintertür einführen? Die Fakten Sitz des Schweizer Nachrichtendienstes NDB in Bern. Kann der Bund die digitale Überwachung nach einer vermeintlich harmlosen Verordnungsänderung massiv ausbauen? archivBild: KEYSTONE Unabhängige IT-Spezialisten,…

Sie reisen durch Europa, organisieren Demonstrationen, veranstalten auf Youtube Konferenzen und schließen sich zu Allianzen zusammen – seit Beginn der Pandemie versuchen einige schillernde Persönlichkeiten der Corona-Leugner-Szene aus Europa ein internationales Netzwerk aufzubauen, das eine verloren…

Iain Treloar Published April 29, 2022 07:37PM Australian cyclist Nick Clark built a loyal following at his Virginia bike shop, based in part on his national and international results and a lengthy professional career. There was just one problem: none of it was true. This is the strange tale of the…

Check out the documentary on 'Do a Wheelie' here - https://youtu.be/7BAPdXGbf6Q Want to #DoAWheelie like Danny MacAskill? – Check how his new 'How to wheelie' video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3kiLEaTv_I In the summer of 2021 Danny MacAskill put out a call to action to his 3.5 million social…

«Bitte zeigt mein Gesicht nicht und nennt mich nicht beim Namen. Sonst passiert meiner Familie in Eritrea das, was ich erleben musste.» Seit Jahren wird in der Schweiz darüber diskutiert, ob abgewiesene Asyl­suchende aus Eritrea gefahrlos in ihr Heimat­land zurück­kehren können. Oder ob ihnen dort…

Ein ehemaliger linker V-Mann packt aus, will reinen Tisch machen. Eigentlich passiert so etwas nicht. Es brauchte viele Vorgespräche und mehrere Anläufe, bis Jan P. sich wirklich vor die Kamera setzte. 10 Jahre lang hat er in den 90ern die links-autonome Szene Wuppertals und Solingens bespitzelt und…

Have you ever bought a storage upgrade for your iPod, iPhone, or Mac to have more room for your Apple Music (formerly iTunes) digital music collection? You may have been filling it with gigabytes worth of empty space. The music files you purchase from the Apple Music Store (AMS; formerly the iTunes…

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It is said that it takes a thousand hammer strikes to make a single pair of hiking boots. Established in 1936, Songlim Footwear is the oldest shoe store still in operation in Korea, passed down through four generations. I captured the process of elderly craftsmen making hiking boots in one corner of…

Teardown of a "date back" or "data back" camera and description of how it works: A micro LCD projector with incandescent light bulb! https://www.patreon.com/AppliedScience

Am 9. Februar 2021 um ein Uhr nachts betritt Buku­rosh Snalla Zelle Nr. 1 im Gefängnis Bäss­lergut in Basel. Warum er hier ist, weiss er nicht. Vor wenigen Stunden noch sass er im Auto, auf dem Weg zu einem Treffen mit Verwandten. Dann plötz­lich: falsch abge­bogen, Grenz­wache, Befra­gung,…

Success and Failure at Pebble Eric Migicovsky 14 min read· Apr 11, 2022 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size I’ve been giving a talk on the importance of learning from failure to every YC batch for last few years. I wrote this post in 2017 but never published it. I dusted it off for…

Sie werden geschlagen und gezüchtigt bis zur Teufelsaustreibung: Erstmals erzählen zwei Söhne, Simon und Joschua Sasek, über das Innenleben der Organischen Christus-Generation (OCG), einer Sekte im fundamentalistisch-christlichen Milieu mit Sympathien für Adolf Hitler.…

Im zweiten Teil der Reporter-Serie erzählt auch Joschua Sasek, der jüngere Bruder von Simon Sasek, von seinem Ausstieg aus der OCG (Organische Christus-Generation). Eine Sekte im fundamentalistisch-christlichen Milieu mit Sympathien für Adolf Hitler, in der sie geschlagen und gezüchtigt wurden bis…

The author in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York in 2007, during his second stay in a wilderness therapy program. Credit...via Kenneth R. Rosen Voices I was sent to three “tough love” programs meant to redirect me. Trying to run away from one made me feel that I had no choice but to become…

It began after I started as a teaching assistant at the department of physics. The first note was a classic – it proved Albert Einstein wrong. The second one solved the problem of quantum mechanics by dividing several equations through zero, a feat that supposedly explained non-determinism. The next…

Katharina Nocun c-base Playlists: 'rc3-2021' videos starting here / audio 63 min 2021-12-27 2022-01-18 3.8k Fahrplan In diesem Talk wird beleuchtet, wie esoterische Überzeugungen uns bei der Pandemieeindämmung sabotieren. Wäre die Pandemie 2019 als Film in die Kinos gekommen, manch einer hätte…

Robert Williams was doing yard work with his family one afternoon last August when his daughter Julia said they needed a family meeting immediately. Once everyone was inside the house, the 7-year-old girl closed all the blinds and curtains and then told her sister and parents that she'd figured it…

Table of contents A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 375, Issue 6582.Download PDF On a warm Wednesday morning in October, Herman Pontzer puts on a wrinkled lab coat, adjusts his mask, and heads into his lab at Duke University, hoping to stress out a student. An undergraduate named…

Here's a stop-motion animation about a Playmobil figure who is inspired to dance by a highly-articulated action figure. Animated using a winder from Kinetic Armatures. The taller poseable figure is a Knights of the Slice design. Toys and figures playlist! :…

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Schwangerschaftsabbruch in Deutschland Alleingelassen, gedemütigt, traumatisiert Triggerwarnung: Der folgende Text beschäftigt sich mit negativen Erfahrungen bei Schwangerschaftsabbrüchen. Die Schilderungen können belastend sein und negative Reaktionen auslösen. Von Miriam Lenz Verweigerung von…

They called him Monster Mike. For the way he threw his sled around on the professional snowmobile circuit and muscled his dirt bike over motocross courses. Arms of steel, gut on fire. Unstoppable. Until that day in December 2008. He was in Ironwood, Michigan, the second stop on the International…

von Marcus Bensmann, Gabriela Keller,Antje Dechert und Justus von Daniels 12. Januar 2022 Früh am Morgen kam der Junge aus dem Haus des Pfarrers, wie so oft, es war ein Sonntag gegen halb sieben, längst hell, Stefan schlich aus der Tür, lief über den noch leeren Kirchplatz, und da stand es, das…

In the ’80s, Susan Headley ran with the best of them—phone phreakers, social engineers, and the most notorious computer hackers of the era. Then she disappeared. By Claire L. Evans Art by Kristen Radtke and Amelia Holowaty Krales Jan 26, 2022, 11:00am EST In partnership with Epic Magazine She was…

Ich bin 14 Jahre alt und finde Schwarze Löcher toll. Leider versteht das fast niemand. Nicht einmal meine Physiklehrerin. Das wird mir am letzten Dienstag vor den Sommerferien klar. Für mich ist es die letzte Woche in der achten Klasse. Und für alle Schülerinnen und Schüler meiner Berliner Schule…