Letter from Beverly Hills Nearly every day for decades, Irving V. Link tanned by the luxury pool. Then his idyllic life style came under threat from the hotel’s owner, the Sultan of Brunei. February 14, 1993 Illustration by Jean-Philippe Delhomme Until just a few weeks ago, no American seemed on…

More people spend the night in Otsuki than want to spend the night there. In Japan, a handful of train stations are known as zetsubo no eki, or “stations of despair.” There’s nothing wrong with these stations themselves, though, and the towns they’re in aren’t dirty, dangerous, or otherwise anything…

Today, when my 1.9-year-old daughter tried to grab and eat an unwashed orange, I asked her to give it to me so I could wash and peel it if she could wait for a moment. She did. It got me thinking about the marshmallow experiment, where the idea was that patience equals success. But … it wasn’t the…

Das Selbst­ver­ständnis der NZZ als eine Publi­ka­tion, die laut ihrem Leit­bild der “indi­vi­du­ellen Frei­heit” und einer “offenen demo­kra­ti­schen Gesell­schaft” verpflichtet sei, liest sich schon seit längerem als ein schlechter Scherz. Und späte­stens seit Eric Gujer 2015 die Chef­re­dak­tion…

One of the most popular memes when it comes to talking about the tech sector is Alex Blechman’s tweet about the Torment Nexus: One can interpret the tweet in a bunch of ways. As a comment on the level of reading comprehension that billionaire tech leaders like Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk or some…

12 min read· Apr 2, 2024 If you trace the path of the Dora Baltea River in early spring, when it swells with melting snow from the Matterhorn, you will quietly arrive at what first appears to be any other small Italian town. Yet in the 1950s, Ivrea was the site of an unheralded experiment in living…

Standardization in Cancer Care Two people with identical cancers - same type, same stage, same tumor size, same location - walk into different hospitals. This cancer has been studied extensively through clinical trials, case studies, and meta-analyses. There are experts worldwide who have dedicated…

First of all, let us be clear. Left-wing or anarchist prepping is nothing new. Contrary to what certain authors seem to think, it has existed for some time already. In fact, ever since the 68 student revolts survivalist communes have been cropping up left and right (quite literally). Granted, there…

The Protesters' Guide to Smartphone Security Illustration: Jonah Aragon / Privacy Guides | Photo: Koshu Kunii / Unsplash For most protesters, activists, and journalists, your smartphone is an essential tool you depend on for organizing with your peers, accessing and distributing information, and…

Ice cream has a simple ingredient list – just cream and sugar, but as anyone who’s tried to make it knows, this frozen dessert can easily become a sticky, icy mess. Food scientist Douglas Goff explains how lessons from materials science can teach us how to make the perfect scoop Scoops galore…

TL;DR We’re making a new Pebble-style smartwatch. Want one? Sign up here - rePebble.com I started working on Pebble in 2008 to create the product of my dreams. Smartwatches didn’t exist, so I set out to build one. I’m extraordinarily happy I was able to help bring Pebble to life, alongside the core…

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Reporting Highlights A Freelance Vigilante: A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover, climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell…

Startseite|Das Magazin|Brandanschlag Chur: 1989 starben vier Menschen aus Sri Lanka AboRechtsextremismus in Chur – Wurden Murali und Mugunthan von Schweizer Neonazis ermordet? Bei einem Brand in Chur im Jahr 1989 starben vier Menschen aus Sri Lanka, darunter zwei Kinder. Unsere Recherchen zeigen: Es…

„Nun ist nicht nur Petra Gössi erstaunt, auch die beiden NZZ-Journalisten sind baff. Sie sind gerade Zeugen eines Datenklaus geworden, der ihre berufliche Existenz infrage stellt. Wer soll noch für Zeitungsabonnemente zahlen, wenn man gratis oder für eine Gebühr von etwa 20 Dollar pro Monat jede…

Elon Musk ist vieles. Unternehmer, Tech-Genie, Promi, Politikberater und der Chef-Troll von Twitter, das er in X umbenannt hat. Doch eine seiner Rollen bleibt bis jetzt unterbelichtet: Er ist zum obersten Führer einer transnationalen faschistischen Bewegung geworden. Wie konnte es so weit kommen?…

Medien und Propaganda: Die weisse Krähe Nr. 3 – 16. Januar 2025 Wie aus dem Journalisten Roger Köppel ein glühender Putin-Bewunderer wurde. Und was es bedeutet, dass er diesen Freitag das Hochamt der SVP im «Albisgüetli» zelebriert. Hinter dem Selfiestick verschwindet die Realität: Roger Köppel.…

Hören Sie hier eine eingelesene Fassung dieses Beitrags: An einem Samstagabend im Dezember, zwei Wochen vor Weihnachten, in der Schweizer Kleinstadt Kloten, wenige Autominuten vom Zürcher Flughafen entfernt. Mehrere junge Männer stehen rauchend auf einem Balkon des Restaurants „83NullZwei“ und…

Zuckerberg, Musk und Co.: Im Silicon Valley sitzt der Feind, das ist klarer denn je Nr. 3 – 16. Januar 2025 Was der Schulterschluss von Facebook-Gründer Mark Zuckerberg mit dem neuen US-Präsidenten über die Digitalindustrie verrät. Von Im Namen der Freiheit, im Dienst des Autoritarismus: Mark…

Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia 0:00/32:30 Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice!), subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later. When Elon Musk launched his latest crusade against Wikipedia this Christmas Eve, it wasn’t just another…

During COVID, I walked a lot. As a consequence, I started listening to more podcasts. Since then the walking has dropped off dramatically, as my wife would tell you. The habit of listening to history podcasts has stuck. I’ve been binge-listening to two of my favorites recently, The Rest is History…

ℹ️ This is a revised version of a video I made on my Patreon. Our most recent Incredible Doom story Eternal September hasn't been going as planned, but maybe that’s for the best. We set out to release the new series as a traditional webcomic—new pages every week, eventually collecting them into a…

source: Wikimedia Accelerating map technology The map technology industry is accelerating toward a more advanced future, but it is not often obvious how. The reason this is not obvious is not because you nor I are not clever enough to see it, but because it is hidden by a sort of false progress on…

The email arrived out of the blue: it was the university code of conduct team. Albert, a 19-year-old undergraduate English student, scanned the content, stunned. He had been accused of using artificial intelligence to complete a piece of assessed work. If he did not attend a hearing to address the…

Michelle Rohn / The Verge Every few days, I open my inbox to an email from someone asking after an old article of mine that they can’t find. They’re graduate students, activists, teachers setting up their syllabus, researchers, fellow journalists, or simply people with a frequently revisited…

When faced with a bit of downtime, many of my friends will turn to the same party game. It’s based on the Surrealists’ Exquisite Corpse, and involves translating brief written descriptions into rapidly made drawings and back again. One group calls it Telephone Pictionary; another refers to it as…

There was a time where fixing a map was akin to updating a book. Once published, the material cannot be updated retroactively, but instead would have to be replaced with a new version. Using old paper maps, it is important to know the year it was printed. In the geospatial industry, this has rapidly…

In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. Mark 17 hydrogen bomb, on display at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, Albuquerque In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced…

If you’ve read me for a while you know that – when it comes to tech reporting/talking about tech – I have been around the block a few times. Talked about some hypes, cut some supposedly magic technologies down to size. Sometimes even defending or advocating for certain tech. After a while the…

Source: South Jersey Radiology Associates 18 min read·12 hours ago I remember my first encounter with radiology. We drove out in the middle of the night because I seemed to have fractured a bone. I recall a large plastic film with an X-ray image, placed against a brightly lit tablet, which the…

As a dangerous and evil man drives people away from Xitter, many stories are talking up Bluesky as the destination for the diaspora. This piece explains why I kind of like Bluesky but, for the moment, have no intention of moving my online social life away from the Fediverse. (By “Fediverse” I mean…

Die Post hofft nach wie vor auf den Erfolg des elektronischen Patientendossiers. Jetzt schiebt sie die Plattform in die Cloud und versucht damit, politischen Prozessen vorzugreifen. Kolumnist Reto Vogt gefällt das nicht. Das elektronische Patientendossier ist seit vier Jahren ein Projekt voller…

On May 21, 1946, the Canadian physicist Louis Slotin was demonstrating to several other Los Alamos scientists how to do a criticality experiment. Slotin wasn’t really doing an experiment at the time, in the sense of taking careful scientific measurements — he was simply showing how one would do…

Im Internet und auf der Straße äußern einzelne linke Gruppen Sympathien für die Terrorwelle der Hamas. Hier erklärt Autor Nicholas Potter von der Amadeu Antonio Stiftung, weshalb Antisemitismus in der Linken gern übersehen wird, welche Gruppen besonders problematisch sind und wie sich „Fridays for…