In April 1965, Life magazine put a photograph called Foetus 18 Weeks on its cover and caused a sensation. The issue was a spectacular success, the fastest-selling copy in Life’s entire history. In full colour and crystal clear detail, the picture showed a foetus in its amniotic sac, with its…

Für diese Reportage wurde Tagesspiegel-Reporterin Katja Füchsel am 18. Juni 2020 mit dem renommierten Theodor-Wolff-Preis ausgezeichnet. Sie wissen ganz genau, was sie mit einem wie ihm anstellen würden. Torsten Siebert sagt, dass er erst am Tag zuvor wieder neben zwei Männern in der S-Bahn gesessen…

"Forced rhubarb" is rhubarb grown to maturity in complete darkness — during which it grows so rapidly it produces incredibly cool, weird sounds. If you listen to that video above you'll get an earful: Rapidfire clicks and pops that sound like somebody irregularly whacking a couple of wet sticks…

Karim verließ nach dem Studium das konfliktreiche Burundi für ein ruhigeres Leben in Ruanda. Natürlich nahm er dabei seine Rollerblades mit, die mit der Zeit zur Verlängerung seiner Beine geworden sind. Karim ist ein Performer und vollführt die tollsten Sprünge und Figuren auf der Straße. Die…

A surreal animation of a goose confused by a fire extinguisher This looping animation by Robert Samuel Hanson is only a few seconds long. A goose tries to interact with a fire extinguisher. The goose and the extinguisher share the same… READ THE REST This animation shows what doom-scrolling does to…

Who doesn't love a free meal? From Nautilus Live: During the final dive of this year's Nautilus expedition season, our team discovered a whale fall while exploring Davidson Seamount off central California's coast with researchers from Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The skeletal remains of…

Tickets zur Show: https://bit.ly/trippy2023 Lukes Team hat Kinder in ein Labor eingeladen, wo sie angeblich Spielzeug testen sollen. Doch plötzlich fängt ein Roboter an zu sprechen und bittet um Hilfe. Schaut euch an, wie die Kids reagieren! Es ist herzergreifend! Facebook:…

2019-04-08 2019-04-22 I just watched a great YouTube video, touching technical, political, and philosophical questions around the whole “who controls the algorithm” topic, from one of those multi-million subscriber channels, spending lots and lots of time and resources on researching and producing.…

The call came about 10 minutes before we were set to check into the Airbnb. I was sitting at a brewery just around the corner from the rental on North Wood Street in Chicago when the man on the other end of the line said that our planned visit wouldn’t be possible. A previous guest had flushed…

If you have not had a chance to see my iPhone X review, I recommend that you start there first. This post is a continuation of my thoughts on the photography market, computational photography and the use of artificial intelligence in photography. It is not a review of the iPhone XS or XS Max,…

Das Stadtmodell ist nicht für Touristen entworfen worden, sondern für die Planer im Amt für Städtebau. Die braunen Klötzchen sind bestehende Bauten, die weissen sind Projekte. Ganz links oben sind etwa die Türme des Stadionprojekts zu sehen, ganz rechts die ersten geplanten Bauten im…

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Christopher W. starb an einem warmen Aprilabend im Jahr 2018 in einem alten Bahnhofsgebäude in Aue. Drei seiner besten Freunde prügelten ihn zu Tode. Sie schlugen so lange auf ihn ein, bis sein Gesicht nur noch eine rote geschwollene Masse war. Auf den Gerichtsfotos sind der verrutschte Mund, der…

There’s a quote that’s stuck with me for some time from Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom: “You know why people don't like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so f***ing smart, how come they lose so goddamn always?” American urbanists and bike advocates are smart, or at least well informed. We…

Computational LEGO Technic Design SIGGRAPH Asia 2019, Technical Paper Project page: http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~haoxu/projects/compute_technic/ Authors: Hao Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Ka-Hei Hui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Chi-Wing Fu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hao…

The man was agitated, with red-rimmed eyes and clammy skin. “Help me,” he said. “I’m under a curse.” At first it was just flickering lights, he said. And then a figure, at the edge of his vision. Now something grabbed his fingers or stroked his arm. There was more – and it was happening more…

Hacking your network likes it's 1980 again Playlists: '35c3' videos starting here / audio / related events 46 min 2018-12-27 26.9k Fahrplan We all know what FAX is, and for some strange reason most of us need to use it from time to time. Hard to believe its 2018, right? But can FAX be something more…

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What happens when a city bans cars from its streets? 16 October 2019 Len WilliamsFeatures correspondent Pedestrians on street Many modern urban areas have been built around cars, with huge amounts of space set aside for roads and parking. But what happens when you take them out of the equation?…

von Nick Lüthi 15.10.2019 Kommt die Swiss-ID als gemeinsames Medien-Login der Schweizer Verlage? Die Online-Angebote der grossen Schweizer Medien sollen in Zukunft nur noch für angemeldete Nutzer zugänglich sein. In einer ersten Phase ist das Login freiwillig. Wird die Anmeldung in einem Jahr zur…

I'm not a chemist. Elephant toothpaste (aka slime foam) has sort been done so many times I wanted to do it really big. We did a ton of testing. Science Bob's Elephant toothpaste recipe- https://sciencebob.com/fantastic-foamy-fountain/ Here is Science Bob’s behind-the-scenes commentary:…

SpaceX has been working on some variant of the Big Falcon Rocket for almost a decade, with a publicly announced architecture for three years. The target performance figures are on the Starship website, endlessly dissected on Twitter, Reddit, and NASA spaceflight forums, and there’s even a livestream…

In den nächsten Tagen startet die Tracking-Allianz der grossen Medienunternehmen in der Schweiz: Wer Inhalte von Beobachter, Blick, Neuer Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), Tages-Anzeiger und so weiter lesen möchte, soll sich in Zukunft auch jenseits von kostenpflichtigen Angeboten registrieren müssen. Die…

Technology services are changing our internet habits Simon Pitt 11 min read· Oct 2, 2019 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Illustration courtesy of the author. I love files. I love renaming them, moving them, sorting them, changing how they’re displayed in a folder, backing them up,…

Edi läuft in der Staffel als Erster, hoffentlich verpasst er nicht das Kommando On your marks!, "Auf die Plätze!", er hört nicht mehr so gut. Herbert läuft als Zweiter, wofür eigentlich Fred vorgesehen war. Der aber traut sich nicht, weil er dann den Staffelstab nicht nur annehmen, sondern auch an…

Recently, my Facebook wall was full of discussion about instituting an oath for STEM workers, analogous to the Hippocratic oath for doctors. Perhaps some of the motivation for this comes from a worldview I can’t get behind—one that holds STEM nerds almost uniquely responsible for the world’s evils.…

On a bright Monday in January 2017, at 2:30 in the afternoon, about a thousand Google employees—horrified, alarmed, and a little giddy—began pouring out of the company's offices in Mountain View, California. They packed themselves into a cheerful courtyard outside the main campus café, a parklike…

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A World War II helmet found by the Petrel, a high-tech research vessel, at the bottom of the Pacific.Credit...David Maurice Smith for The New York Times In 1942, a volley of torpedoes sent the U.S.S. Wasp to the bottom of the Pacific. For decades, the families of the dead wondered where in the…

The night before my middle sister’s wedding, my father sent me a text message. He wanted to talk, “So, it won’t be awkward tomorrow.” My father had not spoken to me for one year and two months. In this time, I had quit my job and moved from Denver, Colorado, to Riverside, California, for graduate…

Als der Arzt Andreas Gammel vom Schicksal eines gefolterten Jungen im Irak erfährt, entscheidet er sich, dem Kind zu helfen. Für diese Geschichte wurde unserem Reporter der Axel-Springer-Preis für junge Journalisten in Bronze verliehen. Losgegangen ist alles mit einem Seufzen. Andreas Gammel saß auf…

Infrastruktur zur Massenvernichtung: Blick aus dem Hotel Imperiale in Auschwitz auf die alten Gleise, die zum KZ Auschwitz I führten. Warum tun wir uns das an? Es wäre so viel angenehmer, das alles nicht zu wissen, oder wenigstens nicht so genau. Die Fotografien nicht zu sehen, die Schilderungen,…

CAREER COLUMN 26 September 2019 The Pulitzer prizewinner shares his advice for pleasing readers, editors and yourself. By Van Savage Van Savage is a theoretical biologist and ecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA. View author…

Illustration: Angelica Alzona When my brother died, I was too shattered to write his obituary. There is little record of his 29 years of life; it simply vanished. When I type “Yush Gupta,” Google autofills “Yush Gupta death,” a brutal reminder that even on the internet, a space where nothing is…