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1. Complex magazine: What do you listen to these days? Lil Wayne: Me! All day, all me. 2. Like a white person, with blue veins In my first few weeks teaching in New Orleans’ Recovery School District, these were the questions I heard the most from my students: 1) “I gotta use it.” (This one might…
ABOUT ME My name is Helmut and I was born in 1980 in Graz (Austria). Trains were my hobby since childhood. My 2nd hobby is travelling. During my trips I always combine those hobbies. I also like nature, mountains, hiking and so on. My hobby is also my profession - since 2007 I work at the Austrian…
I tug my black swim cap over my hair, strap on my pink goggles, and keep a focused calm, like Michael Phelps before a race. It’s lap swim on a Monday afternoon at my local YMCA, and I’m going to attempt the fish kick. Most fish move through the water with a horizontal wiggle. The fish kick…
Chiba City Greens | Illustration: James Bareham/MBH4H I have a confession: Until I started working at The Verge in 2016, I’d never heard of I was, of course, familiar with many of Neuromancer’s themes: Cyberpunk and cyberspace, computer hacking, corporate espionage, cybernetic enhancements, virtual…
“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.” I hadn’t lost everything — just my backpack with two passports and my laptop — so I became only a little freer. This story happened three months ago. It is an embarrassing story. It is embarrassing and difficult to tell — but…
by Ploum on 2024-12-23 Traduction en français Lazygyu의 한국어 번역 zxygentoo 翻译的简体中文版本 Do you know Julius? You certainly know who I’m talking about! I met Julius at university. A measured, friendly young man. He always wore a smile on his face. What struck me about Julius, aside from his always perfectly…
Foreigners dressed in faux-traditional Japanese garb have become a scourge in Kyoto. Photo: Pongmanat Tasiri/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. This is painful,” Maggie…
In 1962. There — that answers the clickbaity title right away. NASA had viable designs for rotating wheel space stations that could have given astronauts artificial gravity. Then, the Apollo program effectively killed them. While NASA’s lunar focus delivered the historic moonshot, it dismantled a…
Opinion Dominance does not equal importance, nor is dominance the same as relevance. The snag at Mozilla is a management layer that doesn't appear to understand what works for its product nor which parts of it matter most to users. It is very rare for an article on The Register to cause friends of…
My story, and how this is all possible Introduction My name is Preston Thorpe, I'm 31 years old and I've spent just under 10 years of my life in Prison (all for non-violent drug crimes.) I am currently incarcerated at Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston, Maine. More importantly, far…
dynomight · Jul 2023 · conspiracy Claim: Per kilometer driven down the road, electric cars create more particulate air pollution than gas cars. That’s ignoring all other emissions and anything that happens at a power plant or during manufacturing. Sounds odd, but the argument is pretty simple:…
Two nights ago, I deleted everything. Every note in Obsidian. Every half-baked atomic thought, every Zettelkasten slip, every carefully linked concept map. I deleted every Apple Note I’d synced since 2015. Every quote I’d ever highlighted. Every to-do list from every productivity system I’d ever…
Profiles When Mary Mallon cooked, people became ill and sometimes died. Health officials came after her repeatedly, and repeatedly she tried to escape. January 19, 1935 Mary Mallon was known and dreaded a generation ago as Typhoid Mary, America’s first identified carrier of typhoid bacilli. She was…
Open Questions For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end. June 17, 2025 Photograph by Balarama Heller You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t…
“We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.” — Donald Trump’s second inaugural address, Jan. 20 In a sense, you gotta hand it to Donald Trump. America’s 45th and 47th president — and first…
Some notes: I will be in SF next week, and am co-hosting this event with the wonderful convoke.bio from 6:30pm-8:30pm on June 24th. Location TBD, but it will be in SF! You should come! Also, I very bravely chatted with Endpoints News a few days back about AI in the life-sciences. Finally, extremely…
Amazing! Incredible! Unbelievable! Eyeglasses that let you see through clothes. The secrets to super-human strength. Scary seven-foot tall ghosts that do your bidding. All of this could be yours for a dollar or two. At least, that’s what vintage comic-book ads would have you believe. Six years ago,…
Caine is nine years old, lives in LA, and built his own arcade out of cardboard boxes in the back of his father’s auto parts store. You’ve go to watch until at least 3:10 when he explains how to check the validity of the “Fun Pass” using the calculators located on the front of each game. So so so…
Selten sorgt eine Verordnung in IT-Kreisen für so viel Aufsehen wie jene zum Bundesgesetz zur Überwachung des Post- und Fernmeldeverkehrs. Doch die Verordnung, zu der die Vernehmlassung gestern Dienstag endete, ist auch alles andere als gewöhnlich. Das zeigt sich nicht nur daran, dass der bei…
“Fina and the Maps” is a children’s book that aims to get children excited about collaborative cartography. The authors and translators hope that some of them will take part in the community project OpenStreetMap, which maps the world and makes the data available to everyone – similar to Wikipedia.…
At the tip of Brittany’s wild, wet Côtes-d’Armor peninsula is the village of Plougrescant. Beyond that, butting right out into the sea, lies Yvinec island, a tiny outcrop intermittently accessible depending on tides via a rock-studded expanse of dunes and seaweed. To get there I have taken two…
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June 4, 2025 This article was contributed by Lee Phillips Free software plays a critical role in science, both in research and in disseminating it. Aspects of software freedom are directly relevant to simulation, analysis, document preparation and preservation, security, reproducibility, and…
dynomight · updated Aug 2022 · science conspiracy Question: Should you drink acetone? Answer: No. But, out of interest, what if you did? This question is asked repeatedly on the web, with with many answers smugly stating that even tiny amounts of acetone will instantly kill you, you idiot. But they…
For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths—and revealed the limits of limitless disclosure. — Meg Bernhard In the early aughts, Frank Warren ran a medical document delivery business in Germantown, Maryland. It was a monotonous job, involving daily trips to government…
Gute Eltern schimpfen nie, gönnen sich Auszeiten und begleiten ihr Kind bindungsorientiert. Solche Überzeugungen sind nicht nur arrogant, sie grenzen auch viele aus, schreibt Autorin Nora Imlau. Text: Nora Imlau Bild: Adobe Stock Vorurteile haben wir alle, und der meisten sind wir uns nicht bewusst.…
Short answer: turn it off and turn it back on Long Answer… Background The lifecycle of most spacecraft consists of a final phase where all the systems are tested to various levels of synergy. One of the most important and complex set of tests are the Closed Loop Tests (CLTs), where the spacecraft is…
I’ve seen plenty of weird computer bugs in my time, but nothing quite like what Peter Onion discovered in February 2015. He was proudly photographing his brand new Raspberry Pi 2 when something bizarre happened—every time his camera flash went off, his Pi instantly powered down. At first, Peter…
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The former Heartland Tri-State Bank in Elkhart, Kan.Credit...Benjamin Rasmussen for The New York Times The Great Read How did a successful, financially sophisticated banker gamble his community’s money away? The former Heartland Tri-State Bank in Elkhart, Kan.Credit...Benjamin Rasmussen for The New…
by Ploum on 2025-02-27 I’ve written extensively, in French, about my quest to break my "connection addiction" by doing what I called "disconnections". At first, it was only doing three months without major news media and social networks. Then I tried to do one full year where I would only connect…
i was addicted to instagram for about a month. it upended my life enough that i realized that i was living with something new-an undesirable habit. and once i realized this, it seemed like it would be wise to try to address it or at least think about it. easier said than done. i left instagram for…
The following sentence applies regardless of when you read this: A famous man has recently been accused of doing sexual things to a woman (or many women) without consent. At the time of this writing, it was a politician's "groping" scandal but next time it'll be unwanted dick pics a powerful man…
In the summer of 1961, Osamu Shimomura sat alone in a rowboat on the Puget Sound, surrounded by thousands of glowing jellyfish. A marine biologist and chemist, he often sought out such quiet moments to reflect on his experimental failures. For two weeks, he had been struggling to isolate the…
The German Empire was founded in 1871, following Prussia’s victory in the Franco-Prussian War. Although a fledgling political nation, Germany was already renowned for its scientific genius. Many discoveries — from microscopy to organic chemistry — came from German scientists working in a period of…
As I climb into my little twin sized bed in my small RV trailer on a patch of undeveloped deep rural land in the Central New York highlands, exhausted from my 6 hours of doordash driving to make less than 200$ that day, I check my emails one last time for the night: no responses from the 745th…
Human Written by a human [0] Imagine, for a moment, a world with no humans. Just machines, bolts and screws, zeros and ones. There is no emotion. There is no art. There is only logic. You would not walk through the streets of this world and hear music or laughter or children playing; no, all you…
Das Verhältnis zwischen der Schweiz und den USA ist angespannt. Während sich Bundesrätinnen und Diplomaten bemühen, den wirtschaftlichen Druck aus Übersee – insbesondere im Zollbereich – abzufedern, wächst in der Bundesverwaltung die Skepsis gegenüber der Abhängigkeit von amerikanischen…
Modest Beginnings At the height of the Cold War, only a handful of nations possessed the capacity to launch rockets into space. Among them were the world's foremost superpowers of the time: the United States of America (USA), and Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Then there was Lebanon, a…
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” With a sly grin that I’d soon come to recognize, Paul Ginsparg quoted Michael Corleone from The Godfather. Ginsparg, a physics professor at Cornell University and a certified MacArthur genius, may have little in common with Al Pacino’s mafia…
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