Christian gibt seine Freiheit ab, als sie ihn aus dem Rollstuhl heben. Wie ein Neugeborenes tragen sie ihn zum Himmelbett, vorsichtig, eine Hand um den Nacken, die andere unter seinen Knien. Sie ziehen ihn aus. Erst das T-Shirt, dann die Jeans und die Socken, bis er nur noch in Boxershorts auf dem…

Children who say hand dryers "hurt my ears" are correct. A new research paper by that very title has just been published in Paediatrics & Child Health, Canada's premier peer-reviewed pediatric journal. And the researcher, 13-year-old Nora Keegan, has been studying the issue since she was nine years…

As OpenStreetMap is increasingly embraced in more commercial platforms—and quietly eschewed by some early adopters—there seems to sometimes be an atmosphere of uncertainty and even doom about the future of the world’s greatest collaborative map (by which I mean database, of course). The End is Near…

August Steam clouds billow from the tomato processing plant along Main Street, lit cotton candy pink by the rising sun. It’s the peak of harvest in Yolo County and canning is in full swing. I drive past strip malls, the hardware store, and a few taquerias—the same road I traveled every month more…

This story also ran on USA Today. This story can be republished for free (details). [UPDATED on June 19] The latest miracle machine in modern medicine — whose use has skyrocketed in recent years — is saving people from the brink of death: adults whose lungs have been ravaged by the flu; a trucker…

When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon on July 20, 1969, it was one of the biggest milestones in human history. Today, we take it for granted that the lunar landing was possible, but at the time, no one had ever done anything remotely like it – let alone in a craft that had never been fully tested.…

Dystopian fiction – from Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange to Russell T Davies’s spectacular recent BBC1 series Years and Years – is usually intended to take elements of the present and then imagine a future in which they have become inescapable, so as to warn us of what might already be in our…

For the best reading experience, we suggest viewing this feature on a widescreen monitor. Text & production: Iain Treloar This story starts – as any good story does – with a Lamborghini hanging off a bike frame suspended from a crane. Or maybe it starts a little before that, with the record-breaking…

Occurred on December 3, 2018 / Livingston, Tennessee, USA "The Quack Pack USA is at it again. Chad was working Roy, Lass, and Celt on some unusual obstacles. His nieces were also in attendance. The skill and ability to work three dogs together on three different sets of whistles is truly amazing.…

Playlists: '35c3' videos starting here / audio / related events 61 min 2018-12-28 5.7k Fahrplan This talk investigates fake science factories; international twilight companies whose sole purpose is to give studies an air of scientific credibility while cashing in on millions of dollars in the…

"Demise and Rise" is a brutally honest documentary about Steve-O's decent into madness, and how an intervention saved his life. Director: Dimitry Elyashkevich

In 1989, Mauro Morandi’s boat docked on Budelli Island off the northern coast of Sardinia, Italy. Discovering that the island’s caretaker was retiring within the next two days, Mauro decided to extend his stay indefinitely and step into the role himself. Little did he know that, nearly 30 years…

In April and May, Voices on Addiction is partnering with Writing Our Lives (WOL) and its creator, Vanessa Martír. WOL came out of Vanessa’s deep want to see stories like her own out in the world. Vanessa had always been enamored with creative nonfiction, but despite her desperate searching, she…

Dark Mode is the marquee feature of macOS 10.14 Mojave. Apple even gives it the top spot on the macOS product page, saying: Dark Mode is a dramatic new look that helps you focus on your work. The subtle colors and fine points of your content take center screen as toolbars and menus recede into the…

This is a part of # altswe series, where I describe ideas for an alternative approach to software engineering. I've been a part of teams between 3 and around 20 software engineers; in companies betwee

Privacy Policy sign up for your weekly dose of culture! Cultural News and Trends: Exploring the Pulse of Today’s Society Been keeping up with the latest cultural news? It’s wild how fast things change, right? If you’re ever feeling out of the loop, just dive into the ocean of cultural news. From art…

Gjermund Roesholt left the cabin on Einarson Lake, in the remote backcountry of the central Yukon, around 9:30 A.M. on November 26, 2018. He headed out by snowmobile to check a trapline that was laid north of the cabin. His partner, Valérie Théorêt, stayed behind with their ten-month-old baby girl,…

Irak: Mit dem Molotowcocktail gegen den Filz Nr. 16 – 18. April 2019 Vergangenen Sommer demonstrierten in Basra Hunderttausende vor allem junge Leute gegen die Korruption der Regierung. Und weil diese Stadt im Südosten des Irak schon immer ein Seismograf für politische Umbrüche und Bewegungen war,…

How long can you survive if you run out of air? 23 April 2019 Richard GrayFeatures correspondent•@chalkmark Dogwoof Chris Lemons spent 30 minutes on the sea bed after the cable that was his lifeline to the ship above him snapped in rough seas (Credit: Dogwoof) Science tells us the human body can…

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Image courtesy of Flickr user Elsa4Sound The avocado is a fruit of a different time. The plant hit its evolutionary prime during the beginning of the Cenozoic era when megafauna, including mammoths, horses, gomphotheres and giant ground sloths (some of them weighing more than a UPS truck) roamed…

It’s often said that hip hop is more than just a type of music…. it’s a way of life. A code, a set of practices, an aesthetic and a way of handling yourself. And despite the efforts of industry executives to commodify it and strip it of its subversive potential, hip hop remains a lifestyle firmly…

Topic: Security Blog Brand: The Buzz Eating Way Too Much Rice Almost Doomed Japan’s Imperial Navy May 26, 2019 Share After the war, the Emergency Beriberi Investigative Committee investigated the disease’s devastation of Japanese ranks. Worried about the composition of the committee and fully aware…

An open book TeX enabled authors to encode their precise intent into their manuscripts: This block of text is a computer program, while this word is a keyword in that program. The language it used, called TeX markup, formalized the slow, error-prone communication that is normally carried out with…

May 30, 2019 One of the dumbest things I’ve ever published While I was reading through some of my older essays the other day, I came across a piece called Privacy vs. User Experience, published in 2014. In the article, I argued that Apple’s then-nascent philosophical stance on the supremacy of user…

I am the least reliable narrator when it comes to the story of my brain exploding. This is because, from the time right before I suffered a freakish brain hemorrhage last year to the time I regained f

Kraftwerk live | Rockpalast | 1970 Rockpalast zeigt zum ersten Mal das Soester Konzert aus dem Jahr 1970 in voller Länge, bei dem Kraftwerk als Trio auftraten und erstaunte Gesichter zurückließen. Eine absolute Rarität und ein Leckerbissen für Musikfans. In loser Reihenfolge präsentiert Rockpalast…

Internet users have been trained over the past decade or so to believe the argument that the services we have grown to think of as “the internet” are expensive to run and that the only way to pay for those services is to let ourselves be tracked everywhere in the service of advertising. Our concepts…

Sometimes in job interviews I've been asked to describe a project I worked on that failed. This is the one I always think of first. In 1995 I quit my regular job as senior web engineer for Time-Warner and became a consultant developing interactive content for the World-Wide Web, which was still a…

This April Fools' Day, Impossible Foods was behind a prank video. Customers in a St Louis branch of Burger King were surreptitiously filmed eating the restaurant's flagship Whopper. First they rhapsodized about their love for beef. Then they were told they'd just eaten a plant-based Impossible…

Let’s start by acknowledging that women are not things. Before we talk, like we have to, about what the attacks on abortion access mean for this anxious, awful political era, let’s establish as a ground rule that women are not vessels, or incubators, or an undifferentiated natural resource. Women…

VICE INTL Glamour, DIY und Exzess: Die Drag-Szene Chinas Schon während seiner Kindheit in einer ländlichen Kleinstadt im Nordosten Chinas war Neil wie besessen davon, sich in Bettlaken zu kleiden und

It was a feat of technological and symbolic imagination. And it was pretty accurate, too. Join the Video Lab to see Phil's Q&A! http://bit.ly/video-lab Leonardo da Vinci’s known for his art and inventions — but also his groundbreaking maps, like this one of Imola, Italy. In this episode of Vox…

BuzzFeedRecherchen Stand: 17.12.2020, 19:07 Uhr Von: BuzzFeed.de © © 2020 BuzzFeed Als die Polizisten kommen, schneidet sich Naghibollah S. den Arm auf. Acht Stunden später sitzt er trotzdem im Flugzeug nach Kabul. Seine Freunde, seine Verlobte und seine WG verzweifeln. In Deutschland reißt er ein…

Shutterstock by Andrew Bertino Sometime in the morning of a bluebird August day, a Seattle woman picked up a pencil and wrote her name on the register at a trailhead off the Mountain Loop Highway. The paper is there to log the hikers on Sunrise Mine Trail #707, a route that winds to the top of…