transcript 0:00/115:34:42 -115:34:42 transcript TikTok dances. Nine Inch Nails. Billy Ray Cyrus. How an unknown Atlanta artist and a Dutch bedroom producer joined forces online to make a record-breaking, chart-topping smash. “Hey. What’s going on?” “Everything’s going on.” “Everything is going on.…

My nephew, Michael, died on 22 May 2019. He was 15 years old. He loved his family, tractors, lorries, tanks, spaceships and video games (mostly about tractors, lorries, tanks and spaceships), and confronted every challenge in his short, difficult life with a resolute will that earned him much love…

The announcement came as we began to board. Last month, I was at Detroit’s Metro Airport for a connecting flight to Southeast Asia. I listened as a Delta Air Lines staff member informed passengers that the boarding process would use facial recognition instead of passport scanners. As a…

Perched atop the Cerro Pachón ridge in the Chilean Andes is a building site that will eventually become the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). When it comes online in 2022, the telescope will generate terabytes of data each night as it surveys the southern skies automatically. And to crunch…

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Updated at 10:25 a.m. ET on June 17, 2019. 1. The Disappearance At 12:42 a.m. on the quiet, moonlit night of March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777-200ER operated by Malaysia Airlines took off from Kuala Lumpur and turned toward Beijing, climbing to its assigned cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. The designator…

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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…

My father died alone at dawn on a Sunday in December. He was fifty-seven, and had been living with his parents in his childhood home in Tucson, Arizona. His father went to wake him for breakfast and found him on the floor, gone. That Friday night before, my father had sent me a slew of texts. To…

Simone Rau, Oliver Zihlmann und Mathias Born Im Umgang mit Vorgesetzten und Arbeitskollegen erleben Journalistinnen laufend sexuelle Belästigungen. Es passiert im Büro, bei Dreharbeiten, an Firmenfesten, in der Kantine. Das zeigt eine anonyme Umfrage des Recherchedesks und des Datenteams von…

For years, Belmont, New Hampshire, had only one detective: Raechel Moulton. An old mill town of 7,200 people, Belmont is surrounded by lakes and forests but isn’t itself much of a draw for the tourists who flock to the region every summer. A hardware store and salon are about all Main Street has to…

Neurobiologists publish the first interactive nerve cell atlas for the brain of zebrafish. They want to understand how distinct brain areas coordinate their activity to control behavior. Credit: MPI o

Birches, birches, pines, birches, clearing, blue farmhouse. Low river valley, wooden bridge. Everything frozen: rivers, trees, turf, fields. Pink crag of granite, yellow ice-fall spilling from it. Boulders big as houses between the birches, among the pines. Black crow pulling red flesh off the white…

Cyclists: I made this video a few months ago and was waiting for a good time to share it, but there won't be a good time. There've been some deaths in New York City that hit close to home, with the usual poor response from media and police. I love riding a bike and I think everyone should do it but…

Edit: Thank you to the 100k people who have read this piece. It looks like many people are struggling with the concept of "greatness". Let's continue to support one another on the journey there. Over the years, we’ve all encountered our fair share of successes and failures. As I’ve acquired more of…

Watch a dishwasher in 360 Degree from the inside. Virtual Reality (VR) wash cycle from the inside of a dishwasher! Info: A regular wash cycle uses around 10 liter of water. I use a lot more when I'm cleaning my dishes by hand. ;) Filmed with a GoPro Fusion in 5.2K. Model of the Dishwasher: Miele…

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…

Iain Treloar Published June 15, 2019 01:03AM 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…

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 5.8k 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

Art Raphael, Duchamp, and a Reopened New Museum Lead New York’s Spring 2026 Art Season Jade Poleon | March 03, 2026 New York’s Spring 2026 art calendar opens with two artists who reshaped Western art five centuries apart. At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, more than 200 works by Raphael arrive in a…

Published May 23, 2019 12:00AM 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…