Members of the counterculture group Provo gather in Amsterdam in 1966. The group launched a free bikesharing program called the White Bicycle Plan that’s considered the forerunner of today’s municipal fleets. Photographer: Jean Tesseyre/Paris Match via Getty Images In mid-1960s Amsterdam, a…

I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer! - Seema I am Seema, and I am, or maybe was the healthiest and fittest person I knew. I absolutely did everything possible to be healthy and I thought nothing could physically slow me down until I was diagnosed with breast cancer in Nov 2021. Stage…

Jahrelang hat die kleine rechtsextreme Szene in der Schweiz stagniert. Doch die Corona-Krise verlieh ihr nun ausgerechnet bei den Jungen grossen Auftrieb. Obwohl an den Demonstrationen der Massnahmengegner anteilsmässig nur wenig Rechtsradikale vertreten waren, nutzte eine Gruppe von Neonazis die…

In the stagnant country of his little bedroom, on the island of his gigantic bed, with two curtains sewn together to clothe his body, Paul Mason decided that he didn't want to die. Three years had seeped in and out of the room, with his head at the same angles, the mass of him pooling outward, the…

cycle.travel is an independent route-planner made for cycle tourists – preferring quiet and scenic roads and traffic-free trails. In this talk, Richard Fairhurst explains how to use it to plan a tour, illustrated with a walk-through of planning a four-day ride from Brecon to Rhyl last summer. He’ll…

Fatherhood, cancer, and what matters most By • - Editor’s note: On Saturday, Ringer senior staff writer Jonathan Tjarks passed away. You can find information about how to support Jonathan’s family here. Waiting for a PET scan is pretty boring. The nurse brings you down a long hallway with a bunch of…

Copyright maximalists just don’t know when to stop. Having failed in their 2020 attempt to use U.S. law to force GitHub to permanently cut off access to youtube-dl, an open source tool that allows users to download and preserve videos, on the theory that the tool can also be used for infringing…

Email2Reddit2.7k SHARES Throughout my life I’ve occasionally had spells of a few weeks or months in which I don’t feel great: I seem to have low energy, brain fog, a lack of optimism, and indecisiveness. Sometimes it’s only a day or two. There doesn’t need to be some life event that triggers this…

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IT'S 12:31 P.M., and Ben Cansdale has been staring at five port-a-potties for a half hour. Cansdale is a member of a five-truck Modern Disposal Services crew, based in Buffalo, that is dispatched on game days to do what they call a "half-suck" when a home game kicks off. From the driver's seat,…

Hi everyone, TGIF, right? How’s your week been? Feeling tired? Like you’ve not got enough done? As I mentioned last time, I’m doing daily writing in January so have mostly been quiet here, but there’s a conversation I keep having that I realised this morning, after having it yet again, that I’ve…

If you watch a lot of movies and TV shows, you might have noticed that over the last few decades everything has gotten a lot more ... gray. No matter the kind of story being told, a sheen of cool blue or gray would wash over everything, muting the colors and providing an overall veneer of serious…

D as Frauengefängnis von Ilopango in El Salvador, elf Kilometer von der Hauptstadt San Salvador entfernt, ist ein rauer Ort. Hinter blauen Gitterstäben sitzen die Frauen zu Dutzenden in Zellen auf dünnen Metallpritschen, mit eingefrorenen Gesichtern. Eine Fotoserie zeigt Einblicke in die „Hölle“,…

Below is a survey of my favorite subgenre of crime story, the locked room mystery. The premise is simple. Readers are presented with an impossible crime. A victim is killed in a locked room. There’s no way the criminal could have committed the murder and escaped, yet somehow it happened. Related…

Email3Reddit246 SHARES As most of you know, I just took three days completely offline so that I could discover what would be difficult about it. I have so much to say about that three days, and first thing I would like to report is that there was almost nothing difficult about it. To my surprise, I…

“A bit of bedlam.” That’s how the physician Graeme Clark described the scene at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, on the day before what would be the most important surgery of his career. Engineers and staff were running around with last-minute equipment tests.…

Bill Gates wheels a hefty metal barrel out onto a stage. He carefully places it down and then faces the audience, which sits silent in a darkened theater. “When I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war,” he begins. Gates is speaking at TED’s flagship conference, held in…

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Every Sunday, I send out a newsletter called cron.weekly to over 10.000 subscribers. In this post, I’ll do a deep-dive into how those mails get delivered to subscribers. Let’s talk tech, workflows and curation! 🔥 Gathering interesting links The first (and arguably, most important) thing to do is…

E s gab diesen Tag, an dem alles stimmte. Das Familienministerium bezahlte eine Fotografin, um Bilder vom Ehepaar Esther und Steffi Lau mit ihren Kindern Marlene und Jacob zu machen. Die Fotos sollten auf Postkarten gedruckt werden, die für Familienvielfalt werben. Die vier fahren an den Rhein; es…

It’s race day, and it’s freezing. Connie doesn’t have gloves or a hat. She wears black yoga pants and a cotton sweatshirt. On her feet are a pair of bulky five-year-old white Nikes she bought at a Foot Locker. The crowd around her buzzes with strange talk of Garmins, and racing flats, and PRs,…

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Vor 1 1/2 Jahren habe ich ein Special aufgenommen und über Rassismus gesprochen. Die Pandemie drängt dieses Thema ziemlich an den Rand und trotzdem ist es nicht weniger wichtig geworden.

Email12Reddit4.8k SHARES One financial lesson they should teach in school is that most of the things we buy have to be paid for twice. There’s the first price, usually paid in dollars, just to gain possession of the desired thing, whatever it is: a book, a budgeting app, a unicycle, a bundle of…

Welche Art Mensch steckt hinter der Berühmtheit? Das möchten wir in unserem Format «5 Fragen an…» wissen. Heute von Sänger und Texter Endo Anaconda. Endo Anaconda im Interview: «Ich werde ganz bestimmt kein Turborentner.» auf Zeitlupe.ch:…

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🗺️ Learn how to make gorgeous maps of anywhere in the world in just a few minutes. Prettymaps is a Python library which takes data from OpenStreetMap and crafts it into great little maps where you have a lot of control over how things are displayed. In this video we’ll take a look at how to run…

What do you get when you combine ancient designs with modern engineering? An exciting new way to convert time and money into heat and noise! I'm not sure whether to call this a catapult or a trebuchet, but it's definitely the superior siege engine. 3d drawing of the arm:…

This is a recreation of a popular blog post I had at a former version of wilcosky.com. I re-created my website and since the previous version didn’t have a lot of posts and most weren’t popular, I did

Tech-savvy admirers of the late Terry Pratchett have hit upon an idea for a particularly appropriate memorial. It will be everywhere and nowhere, hiding in the code of the internet. Pratchett’s 33rd Discworld novel, Going Postal, tells of the creation of an internet-like system of communication…

The Great ReadFirst Person Do I hate my husband? Oh for sure, yes, definitely. Credit...Jake Terrell By Dec. 24, 2021 After 15 years of marriage, you start to see your mate clearly, free of your own projections and misperceptions. This is not necessarily a good thing. When encountering my husband,…