I. At the height of the events in Poland, just at the time when the trade union Solidarnosc was being outlawed, I received a letter stamped NIE CENZUROWANO. What exactly did these words mean? They were probably supposed to indicate that the country from which it came was free of censorship. But it…

Als Podcast anhören Einer, der in den letzten Monaten stark darunter gelitten hat, ist der Wissenschaftler, der sich wohl am stärksten für die öffentliche Aufklärung in Sachen Sars-CoV-2 eingesetzt hat: Christian Drosten, Virologe von der Berliner Charité. Für viele ist er zu der Leitfigur in der…

The Hair Dryer Incident was probably the biggest dispute I’ve seen in the mental hospital where I work. Most of the time all the psychiatrists get along and have pretty much the same opinion about important things, but people were at each other’s throats about the Hair Dryer Incident. Basically,…

One day in late September 2020, the Kludsky family – Yvonne, a slim, blond woman in her 60s, her husband, George, who is over 80 but still fit and strong, and their son Martyn – led their elephant up a ramp into the 10-metre trailer that constituted her second home. Dumba went willingly, as always;…

The other day, Johnny Knoxville came across a relic from his past buried in a drawer at home. “I found a packet of those things at the house,” he said. “What do you call it? I can't remember what they were called.” He paused, searching for the word. Eventually, he found it. “Yeah, the catheter,” he…

A Hole in the Head: A History of Trepanation A survey of trepanation, or trephination, the oldest surgical procedure known to humanity. A detail of a 17th-century naval surgeon’s trephination kit. The trephines are very similar to both ancient Roman and modern ones. By: Charles G. Gross BeeLine…

My mom got sucked into the world of internet conspiracies so I made this little movie about it. Please subscribe for more shorts I will be making soon. Also you can follow me on Twitter and Instagram @DurtySean. As seen on the front page of reddit documentaries, the short documentary QAmom. In this…

For the first 20 years of my working life I wrote for a living; mostly for television and well enough to earn the occasional accolade to put in a frame or a shiny thing for the mantelpiece. Working with words was my sustenance and pleasure. That was before depression crept darkly into the light open…

Maybe it’s the recipe’s “lukewarm scalded milk” that spills on the bottom corner of the page. Fountain pen ink swims up to meet it, ghosting the words below. No matter. Mary made her Easter Bread and Nut Roll so many times since she wrote it down in 1960—the date safe and crisp up at the top—that…

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Am Donnerstagabend veröffentlichten rund 20 Rapper und Aktivisten den ersten Song nebst offizielles Video ihres Kooperationsprojektes „Rapbellions“. In dem Song „Ich mach da nicht mit“ steuert Naidoo unter anderem den Refrain bei. Die anderen Musiker bilden einen Querschnitt zwischen solchen, die…

A moment ago I awoke from a nightmare about 9/11. I was visiting the Empire State Building in New York when an airplane crashed into it from the side. The whole building buckled for a moment, then nothing else seemed to happen. I was by myself, without any friends or family, and I just ran down to…

A good philosophy to live by at work is to “always be quitting”. No, don’t be constantly thinking of leaving your job 😱. But act as if you might leave on short notice 😎. Counterintuitively, this will make you a better engineer and open up growth opportunities. A thread 👇. So what does it mean to…

Sein Video vom Freitag beginnt Ashkar Techy noch mit einem Zusammenschnitt aus lustigen Instagram-Filmchen, auf einmal ist das Bild schwarz. „Leute, bitte überspringt das jetzt nicht, ich habe etwas Wichtiges zu sagen“, wird eingeblendet. Dann überbringt der indische YouTuber seinen 500.000…

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. Tadesse Yae Dabi lined up with around three dozen other runners at the foot of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in Staten Island. He held…

“Playing With Time” is a new mind-blowing 1.5-minute video by Macro Room in which a man bends time and space in slow motion. It was created entirely with a high-speed camera with clever planning and editing. Ben Ouaniche, the Tel-Aviv, Israel-based visual art director who founded Macro Room in 2016,…

Bending time and space in slow motion

Ever since the signing of an armistice in 1953 that put a stop to the fighting in the Korean War, North Korea and its activities has more or less been a mystery to the world. What little is known about the country is inherently grim: the county is internationally considered to be one of the worst…

The Nobel Prize-winning biologist Peter Medawar (1915–1987) is best known for work that made the first organ transplants and skin grafts possible. Medawar was also a lively, witty writer who penned numerous books on science and philosophy. In 1979, he published Advice to a Young Scientist, a book…

Christie Watson | Excerpt from The Language of Kindness: A Nurse’s Story | Tim Duggan Books | May 2018 | 17 minutes (4,508 words) I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar The landscape of theaters must be terrifying for patients,…

I picked up this Gruen pink gold pocket watch from eBay, and it wasn't running consistently. My hope was that it just needed a good service to get running again, join me for this video to find out if that was it or if this is one of those rabbit hole projects :) Support Wristwatch Revival via…

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I got my first COVID-19 vaccine recently. The whole experience was tremendously routine: I showed my registration, stood in a waiting area, saw a nurse, got the jab, waited 15 minutes in case of an adverse reaction, and left. Oh, and I got a button. The waiting period, of course, was when it…

Adam reveals the real reason your boss doesn't want you sharing your salary. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/truTVSubscribe Watch Full Episodes for FREE: http://bit.ly/1Rw2yzp In Adam Ruins Everything, host Adam Conover employs a combination of comedy, history and science to dispel widespread…

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Nour Said kann nicht mehr. Es ist der 18. Juni 2020, und er treibt irgendwo im Mittelmeer zwischen Italien und Libyen. Mittlerweile gibt es kein Trink­wasser, kein Essen und kein Benzin mehr. Und der Wind wird immer stärker, die Wellen werden immer höher. Vor 30 Stunden hat Said mit über einem…

Arne Svenson, Stray #55 To peer into the soul of a sea cucumber, don’t look to its face; it doesn’t have one. Gently turn that blobby body around, and gaze deep into its marvelous, multifunctional anus. The sea cucumber's posterior is so much more than an exit hole for digestive waste. It is also a…

Voyager: Inside the world's greatest space mission 4 July 2020 Richard HollinghamFeatures correspondent Science Photo Library In 1977, two spacecraft started a mission that has redefined our knowledge of the Solar System – and will soon become our ambassadors on a journey into the unknown. BBC…

A m Abend des 3. Februar 2017 nehmen Po­li­zis­t*in­nen im Flughafen Wien-Schwechat einen deutschen Staatsbürger fest. Er hat versucht, eine Pistole aus einem Versteck in einem Behinderten-WC zu holen. Dort hatte er sie zwei Wochen zuvor deponiert. Eine Putzkraft entdeckte die Waffe jedoch, und die…

Man vs. machine was the theme of the 1982 movie, Tron. In the summer of 1982, just months before I would go off to college, my mother took me aside and told me, “Your father wants you to get a job this summer, to pay for your living expenses at school.” I was 18 and had yet to hold any kind of job,…

Hubert Kretz, pensionierter Chemiker mit Doktortitel, schwebt in einem Zustand zwischen Leben und Tod. Er liegt fast reglos da. Ab und an flattert das Lid an seinem rechten Auge. Er atmet ruhig und regelmäßig – ohne Kanüle im Hals. Sein Sohn Daniel, ein schmaler Mann, 33 Jahre, steht neben ihm in…

Home 11 march 2020•1549 words, 7 min. read By Pierre-Nicolas Schwab IntoTheMinds founder, MSc, MBA, PhD On 5 March 2020, the Secretary of State for Economic Transition in Brussels, Barbara Trachte, published on her LinkedIn account an interactive map of the street names of the Belgian capital. The…

Embrace the Grind There’s this card trick I saw that I still think about all the time. It’s a simple presentation (which I’ve further simplified here for clarity): a volunteer chooses a card and seals the card in an envelope. Then, the magician invites the volunteer to choose some tea. There are…

Updated at 10:07 a.m. ET on May 4, 2021. Several days ago, the mega-popular podcast host Joe Rogan advised his young listeners to skip the COVID-19 vaccine. “I think you should get vaccinated if you’re vulnerable,” Rogan said. “But if you’re 21 years old, and you say to me, ‘Should I get…