Here’s a funny thing about work: We spend more time with our colleagues than with our friends and family. Yet more often than not, we don’t really understand our co-workers—because being honest with one another is scary. When a teammate’s lack of organization annoys us, we vent to others. When a…

I reached the Flüelapass—an eight-mile climb that cuts through the canton of Graubünden in southeast Switzerland—convinced that my father was going to die. Or was dead already. My phone had pinged an hour earlier with an email from my mother, in Vermont. Dad had collapsed in the middle of the night.…

Why is this shaped like this? Let's talk about two things that used to not go together: Japan and butter. Like other East Asian cultures, butter was never a part of the traditional Japanese diet, and was actually treated with disgust when introduced by Europeans in the 19th century. (Fun…

Kein Filterfür Rechts Wie die rechte Szene Instagrambenutzt, um junge Menschen zu rekrutieren »Die Mädels sind für das schöne Bild verantwortlich«, so offen sagt es eine Insiderin. Es sind vor allem Frauen, die Nutzer auf Instagram mit ästhetischen Bildern und subtilen Botschaften in die rechte…

As this article goes to press, Hurricane Delta is making landfall not far from where Hurricanes Sally and Laura came ashore earlier in the season. I live on the East Coast of the United States, and fairly far inland, so such storms are not as frequent or intense as they are in states bordering on…

Touch is the first sense by which we encounter the world, and the final one to leave us as we approach death’s edge. ‘Touch comes before sight, before speech,’ writes Margaret Atwood in her novel The Blind Assassin (2000). ‘It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.’ Our…

Over the past couple days, you might have seen this link making the rounds, a 3D virtual tour of this unusual house for sale in Louisville, Kentucky. Uh. Found this in a Facebook group; the person who posted said “tour in 3D, try to find the bathtub” …enjoy(?) https://t.co/20wOBjSUZa— Jenny Jaffe…

Kein Filterfür Rechts Wie die rechte Szene Instagrambenutzt, um junge Menschen zu rekrutieren »Die Mädels sind für das schöne Bild verantwortlich«, so offen sagt es eine Insiderin. Es sind vor allem Frauen, die Nutzer auf Instagram mit ästhetischen Bildern und subtilen Botschaften in die rechte…

Björn Höcke posiert wie ein Werbeträger mit einem Poloshirt einer nationalistischen Marke unter dem Motto „Trag, was Du fühlst!“. Durchtrainierte Männer werben für ein rechtsextremes Kampfsportevent namens „Kampf der Nibelungen“. Rapper, die beim Verfassungsschutz auf dem Radar stehen, verkaufen…

For the last eight years, I’ve carried around this box of videotapes through four different apartments and one house. They’re family home videos from my childhood. After 600+ hours of work, I finally digitized and organized them well enough to throw away the original tapes. Here’s what the footage…

In part one, I described my arduous journey to capture my old home movies in digital format and divide them into individual scenes. After processing all the clips, I wanted the experience of exploring them to be as simple as looking up clips on YouTube. Because these videos are my family’s private…

HBO’s Chernobyl gave us a raw glimpse of the devastating consequences a nuclear reaction can have. Not only that, even today, the Chernobyl accident is still considered one of the worst nuclear disasters in history for the number of victims and how it was dealt with by the authorities at the time.…

Zoom shut down a series of events meant to discuss what organizers called “censorship” by the company. The events were planned for Oct. 23 and were organized in response to a previous cancellation by Zoom of a San Francisco State University talk by Leila Khaled, a member of the Popular Front for the…

Series: The New Sweatshop The Secretive World of Work-At-Home Customer Service ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This story is co-published with NPR’s Planet Money. Airbnb, battered by the…

Profiles Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of the end-to-end encrypted messaging service Signal, is “trying to bring normality to the Internet.” October 19, 2020 Moxie Marlinspike says that Signal, the messaging service he founded, is “just trying to bring normality to the Internet.”Photograph by…

Long touted as a health food, grapefruit has a dark side. Illustrations by Stella Murphy In 1989, David Bailey, a researcher in the field of clinical pharmacology (the study of how drugs affect humans), accidentally stumbled on perhaps the biggest discovery of his career, in his lab in London,…

Jökulsárlón Lagoon, Iceland. The air is cold but the water is colder, its surface gridlocked with icebergs. Slabs and hunks and blocks of ice the size of ships, houses, buses—they’re everywhere, crowded into the glacial lagoon. The icebergs are dazzling white and pale gray and a light milky blue,…

Behind the Paper Synchrotron imaging shows the earliest mammals had physiologies closer to modern reptiles than modern mammals Published Oct 12, 2020 Ian Corfe Postdoctoral Researcher, Geological Surv

Since Crisp started in 2015, we designed the Crisp Chatbox to be full-featured, without compromising on lightweights. We iterated on ensuring that our chatbox script, which every one of our user's website visitor load, would not slow down our user's websites, and pop into view as quickly as…

Editor’s Note: Surveillance capitalism is everywhere. But it’s not the result of some wrong turn or a rogue abuse of corporate power — it’s the system working as intended. This is the subject of Cory Doctorow’s new book, which we’re thrilled to publish in whole here on OneZero. This is how to…

Das Bild wirkt wie ein typischer Instagram-Post: ein weiches, hellbraunes Deckchen umwickelt ein blondes Baby, das friedlich in der Wiege schläft. Umgeben ist es von seinem Spielzeug: Ein kleiner Plüschwolf, ein hölzernes Schwert, dazu etwas Dekoration. Das warme Licht trägt perfekt zur Stimmung…

Kein Filterfür Rechts Wie die rechte Szene Instagrambenutzt, um junge Menschen zu rekrutieren »Die Mädels sind für das schöne Bild verantwortlich«, so offen sagt es eine Insiderin. Es sind vor allem Frauen, die Nutzer auf Instagram mit ästhetischen Bildern und subtilen Botschaften in die rechte…

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Der vorbestrafte Rocker und ehemalige Polizist Tim Kellner ist heute einer der einflussreichsten rechten YouTuber. Seine Videos sind geprägt von Dehumanisierung, Rassismus und antisemitischen Erzählungen. Er impliziert, dass Deutschland vor einem Kollaps stehe, wenn sich das deutsche Volk sich nicht…

This research is one of the main papers that inspired me to start Ariyh. It was published 7 years ago. That may seem like a long time ago, but you’ll see that this fascinating research is still greatl

When an airline no longer wants a plane, it is sent away to a boneyard, a storage facility where it sits outdoors on a paved lot, wingtip to wingtip with other unwanted planes. From the air, the planes look like the bleached remains of some long-forgotten skeleton. Europe’s biggest boneyard is built…

Just say no Why online voting is harder than online banking A common argument for online voting doesn't actually make sense. Timothy B. Lee – Sep 12, 2020 9:00 am | 315 Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Story text Size Width * Links * Subscribers only Learn…

Act 1: Sunday afternoon So you know when you’re flopping about at home, minding your own business, drinking from your water bottle in a way that does not possess any intent to subvert the Commonwealth of Australia? It’s a feeling I know all too well, and in which I was vigorously partaking when I…

John erinnert sich an den intensiven Geruch der Menschen. Im Flüchtlingslager von Calais gibt es keinen Strom, also heizen, kochen und waschen die Menschen mit Brennholz. Diesen rauchigen Geruch werden sie nicht los, sagt John. Und er bleibt noch lange an seinem LKW hängen, nachdem er darin Menschen…

“The fact that we cannot expect ever to accommodate in our language a detailed description of Martian or bat phenomenology should not lead us to dismiss as meaningless the claim that bats and Martians have experiences fully comparable in richness of detail to our own.” –Thomas Nagel What is it like…

Some interesting news for lovers of open, decentralized communications tech: Element, the company behind the eponymous Matrix-based Slack competitor (formerly known as Riot ) has acquired developer-fo

The companies that help people vanish 4 September 2020 Alamy Each year, some choose to 'disappear' and abandon their lives, jobs, homes and families. In Japan, there are companies that can help those looking to escape into thin air. This piece is based on this BBC Reel video produced by Andreas…

Landfill workers bury all plastic except soda bottles and milk jugs at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon. Laura Sullivan/NPR Note: An audio version of this story aired on NPR's Planet Money. Listen to the episode here. Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern…

Important Information LTSE Equity Customers: ‍ The sunsetting of the LTSE Equity platform is complete. As we previously communicated, LTSE will maintain historical customer data until November 30, 2024. If you have any questions, please reach out to support@ltse.com. ‍ We’re grateful to have shared…