If you grew up watching Looney Tunes, then you know Chuck Jones, one of all-time masters of visual comedy. Normally I would talk about his ingenious framing and timing, but not today. Instead, I’d like to explore the evolution of his sensibilities as an artist. To see the names of the films, press…

Wann ich das erste Mal vom hundertjährigen Huhn meiner Familie gehört habe, weiß ich nicht mehr. Meine Urgroßeltern hatten – wie häufiger üblich zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts – zehn Kinder. Ich habe mich immer schwergetan, deren Kinder und Kindeskinder auseinanderzuhalten. Damit ich mir die…

The Stauffers’ adopted son, Huxley, had been a focal point of their YouTube and Instagram pages until this spring, when he suddenly stopped appearing in videos. Photo: Myka Stauffer/Instagram This story was originally published on August 18, 2020. It is now the subject of An Update on Our Family, a…

I have built the most inconvenient way of playing music! It is lo-fi awfulness and cyberpunk grungy. Thanks! I hate it! Raspberry Pi USB floppy drive Audio Cable / Headphones USB Battery As I discussed yesterday, it's possible to fit half an hour of speech on a single floppy disk. The best band in…

E igentlich geht es um versteckte Botschaften in Mails, die jemand nachts verschickt, der gerne „der Führer“ wäre und Menschen damit droht, sie „umzulegen“. Um einen verdächtigen Polizisten, der mit Kol­le­g*in­nen rechtsextreme Nachrichten auf Whatsapp austauscht, der Linke auch mal…

Using his phone, Reed googled the two men’s names together. Within seconds, he realized the duo was internet-famous. He scrolled down and read the stories about a disastrous journey T. R. and Fosdick had taken two years earlier, in September of 2012. In what seemed to be a typical flight, the two…

Hunting Warhead Play All7 episodes How to Subscribe Share Podcast How do you take down a criminal network that’s hidden in the shadows? How do you rescue child abuse victims who could be anywhere in the world? Hunting Warhead follows the journalists and police on a global mission to expose the…

Opinion Credit...Marion Fayolle IT’S one of the things we are most afraid might happen to us. We go to great lengths to avoid it. And yet we do it all the same: We marry the wrong person. Partly, it’s because we have a bewildering array of problems that emerge when we try to get close to others. We…

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As far as Dream Build gravel bikes go, this is definitely the best one featured on the channel so far.. a totally custom painted Open WI.DE frame featuring the finest components with a carefully considered colour scheme. This bike was the brainchild of my friend Tom and this is what he has to say…

Das Attest kommt per E-Mail. „Aus schwerwiegenden Gründen von der Gesichtsmaskenpflicht befreit“, steht darauf. Dass es so leicht werden würde, hatten wir nicht gedacht. Zuvor hatten wir eine kurze Korrespondenz mit einem Berliner Heilpraktiker. Wir schrieben ihm über eine private E-Mailadresse, wir…

Startseite|Ausland| Was hat es mit den Reichsflaggen an den Corona-Demonstrationen auf sich? Und warum ist der Reichstag in Berlin ein derart aufgeladenes Symbol der deutschen Demokratie? aus Berlin Publiziert: 30.08.2020, 16:35 Reichsflaggen vor dem Berliner Reichstag: Polizisten räumen die Treppen…

This story appears in the September 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. The impressive landscapes on Earth can take a person’s breath away. But for Reuben Wu, that wasn’t enough. Wu—a photographer, visual artist, and music producer—felt that the planet’s majestic mountains, glaciers, and…

Immer wieder eignen sich Nazis Subkulturen an, um ihre faschistische Ideologie zu verbreiten. Auch die Technoszene ist dagegen nicht immun. Besonders anfällig dafür scheint das Subgenre „Dark Techno“ zu sein. Durch Codes und Symbole in der Ästhetik und Aufbereitung werden rechtsextreme Ideen…

Es soll nach der erregenden Lektüre von Nachrichten, Schlagzeilen oder Bildinhalten mitunter helfen, einen kurzen Blick auf die Quelle zu werfen, bevor man auf Fakten pocht, ins Internet schrei(b)t, jemandem auf die Nase haut oder mit Fahne das Haus verlässt. Eingefleischte Verschwörungstheoretiker…

"Last year, we became the protest app.” Um... Bridgefy, the messenger promoted for mass protests, is a privacy disaster Researchers notified the company in April of serious flaws that have yet to be fixed. Dan Goodin – Aug 24, 2020 8:00 am | 87 Demonstrations in Belarus over the reelection of…

In March 2010, news sites were abuzz with the announcement of a proposed Chinese-backed high-speed Eurasian rail line that could whip passengers between London and Beijing at speeds of up to 345 km/h (215 mph), completing the 17-country, 8 160 km (5 070 mi) journey in just two days. While such a…

Draft scientific manuscripts are typically confidential. So, when Elana Fertig was asked to take a look at an in-development paper on a functional gene-annotation strategy, she expected to receive the file in a private e-mail. What she got was a public announcement, shared on Twitter. Access options…

|Das Magazin| Zwei Männer sind Berufskollegen, der eine Sportreporter beim «Tages-Anzeiger», der andere bei der NZZ. Dann sterben innert weniger Stunden ihre Frauen. Der Anfang einer Freundschaft. Thomas Schifferle, Das Magazin Publiziert: 15.08.2020, 06:00Aktualisiert: 02.01.2021, 20:10 «Hallo, da…

Zwei Freunde An einem Tag im März stirbt die Frau unseres Autors. Acht Stunden später stirbt die Frau seines Berufskollegen. Der Tod steht am Anfang ihrer Freundschaft. Daraus sind zwei Texte entstanden. Den einen lesen Sie hier, der andere erscheint im «Magazin». Flurin Clalüna 15.08.2020, 06.00…

8-27-2020 Last Updated: 10-17-2020 The personal website is a somewhat mysterious animal that lives mostly unobserved in the jungle of the Internet. A few inexperienced Internet users who live complete

Michael Kreil Main Ethics, Society & Politics Playlists: '36c3' videos starting here / audio 55 min 2019-12-29 6.1k Fahrplan Seit Jahren wird über den Einfluss des Internets auf die Gesellschaft diskutiert. Desinformationskampagnen in den sozialen Medien, russische Bots und Empfehlungs-Algorithmen…

On a balmy September evening in 1998, Swissair flight 111 was in big trouble. A fire in the cockpit ceiling had at first blinded the pilots with smoke, leaving them to rely on instruments to divert the plane, en route from New York to Geneva, to an emergency landing at Halifax Airport in the…

Illustrations by Chrissie Abbott My induction into conspiracy thinking came in the fall of my first year of high school, when my seventh-period journalism teacher devoted a lecture to the Illuminati. A nefarious group of global elites controlled our politics and our economy, he told us. They met in…

A Reporter at Large August 23, 1946 A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb. Survivors wonder why they lived when so many others died.Photograph from Rolls Press / Popperfoto / Getty I—A Noiseless Flash At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945,…

I made a mask launcher and brought it to Huntington Beach, which is one of the most anti-mask cities in southern California. What could possibly go wrong? Help me shoot more people in the face! https://www.patreon.com/sufficientlyadvanced Cameramangirl Thea:…

TED is supported by ads and partners 00:00 Can we call it a "world map" if it's missing a billion people? 1,763,449 plays| Rebecca Firth | TED2020 • June 2020 Want to help map the world? Community builder Rebecca Firth explains how the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is using open-source…

Mit einer Wahrscheinlichkeit von 72 Prozent finden Sie in Ihrer Wohnung eine Erklärung dafür, dass immer mehr Menschen glauben, es gäbe eine Elite, die Kinder frisst. Gut, dieser Satz ist einigermaßen erklärungsbedürftig, und dazu muss man etwas ausholen. Am ersten Augustwochenende 2020 fand in…

Judging by the amount of media coverage Mastodon is getting, you might conclude that it's already dead. Of course, plenty of folks have predicted long ago that Mastodon won't survive or is dead in the water. Wait, then why are there more than a million active accounts on Mastodon and other fediverse…

Physicist Avinash Kumar of Simon Fraser University stands beside the Mpemba effect apparatus. Photo by Prithviraj Basak The story goes that in 1963, Tanzanian high school student Erasto Mpemba was making ice cream with his class when he impatiently put his sugar and milk concoction into the ice…

Here’s a thought experiment for you. Say you went out and rode every street in your suburb. What would the distance of that ride be? What if you did it again, but tried to keep the distance as short as possible? How would you go about finding the optimal route? And how do you think that optimal…

Das ist eine Liebesgeschichte.Und wie alle guten Liebesgeschichten endet auch diese tragisch. Oder zumindest wird sie das irgendwann. Aber von Anfang an… Es ist schwer vorstellbar, dass es eine Zeit gab, in der das Internet ohne Social Media existierte. Und ernüchternd, dass ich schon so lange…

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