Oz Nova 7 min read· Jun 7, 2017 -- Software engineers go crazy for the most ridiculous things. We like to think that we’re hyper-rational, but when we have to choose a technology, we end up in a kind of frenzy — bouncing from one person’s Hacker News comment to another’s blog post until, in a…

There is a good reason people call Twitter the hell website. Cynicism, egos, unprovoked hostility, unchecked propaganda, sexism, bigotry, and outright hate—Twitter is as full of it as virtually anywhere online, and worse, it’s unbearably nonstop. The design of the place feels uniquely unhealthy due…

Some online trans communities have a word for trans people who haven’t realized they’re trans just yet: egg. When you’re an egg, you’re safely closed off by your shell, unable to see the wider world. It’s kind of like being in a sensory deprivation tank. Everything is muffled, and the world is hazy…

Phys Ed Regular exercise changes the look and workings of the human heart. And researchers are discovering that different sports affect the heart differently. Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times By April 3, 2019 Leer en español Do world-class swimmers’ hearts function differently than the hearts…

Giant azhdarchid pterosaur in flight. Images like this virtually always trigger discussions about the validity of giant pterosaur flight hypotheses. Every so often the idea of flightless giant pterosaurs circulates in the press or on social media. It doesn't take much to ignite these discussions: a…

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It was early January 2018 when Debra Koosed started working on her taxes. Or was it mid-January? She knew it was January. She knew that she would get confused and would need the extra time. Months, even. Soon, Debra was spending several hours a day bent over the paperwork, her soft body in the heavy…

Photo by Libby March Member-only story How Google’s Bad Data Wiped a Neighborhood off the Map Inside the big, twisted industry of neighborhood data collection Caitlin Dewey 16 min read· Mar 14, 2019 -- Annette Lott sat through the meeting with studied patience, waiting for the moment city officials…

The particular sheen of America by Amtrak. The view from the Southwest Chief’s Sightseer Lounge. Holly Andres for The New York Times We’re All in This Together The particular sheen of America by Amtrak. By CAITY WEAVER photographs by: Holly Andres Tell your fellow americans that you plan to cross…

Ramsey Orta and Eric Garner were deciding where to eat when the police approached. Orta immediately raised his cellphone and hit record. He’d been doing that a lot lately. Many living in the Tompkinsville neighborhood of Staten Island felt they lived under constant surveillance by the 120th…

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Access through your institution When was the last time you heard a seminar speaker claim there was ‘no difference’ between two groups because the difference was ‘statistically non-significant’? Access options Access through your institution Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get…

This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ We hold in our mouths the legacy of our evolution. We rarely consider just how amazing our teeth are. They break food without themselves being broken, up to millions of times over the course of a…

It’s the dead of night, and the USS Fitzgerald is on a secret mission to the South China Sea. Scroll The sailors on the $1.8 billion destroyer are young, tired and poorly trained. Disaster strikes at 1:30:34 a.m. Fight the Ship Death and valor on a warship doomed by its own Navy. By T. Christian…

Photo: Courtesy of Kahn and Selesnick. Welcome to The Drop, Refinery29's home for exclusive music video premieres. We want to shine the spotlight on women artists whose music inspires, excites, and (literally) moves us. This is where we'll champion their voices. Amanda Palmer has been famous for her…

Zunächst sah es nach einem passablen Start aus: klare Kommunikation, für jeden einsehbarer Quellcode, öffentliche Sicherheits­checks. Vergangene Woche veröffentlichte die Post den Quellcode ihrer E-Voting-Plattform, die sie zusammen mit der Firma Scytl entwickelt hat. Am 25. Februar startet der…

Eigentlich ist das Wetter im April 2017 unauffällig, doch in der Nacht auf den 20. fallen plötzlich die Temperaturen und ein Blitzfrost lässt die jungen Weinreben und Obstbaumblüten in Hessen erfrieren. Von der ungewöhnlichen Kälte bekommt Frank M., der im Internet Berndinihr heißt, an diesem Abend…

When it comes to their stuff, people often have a hard time letting go. When the object of their obsession are rooms full of old clothes or newspapers, it can be unhealthy—even dangerous. But what about a stash that fits on 10 5-inch hard drives? Online, you’ll find people who use hashtags like…

For many years I’ve interacted with my fellow humans, I think perhaps more than any other way, via the medium of Internet chat. But in my chat window, they’re fading, one by one. This problem is technical and personal and I felt it ought not to go unrecognized. Since forever I’ve used a chat client…

It’s Tuesday, loyalty card double-stamp night at my neighborhood sushi place in Oakland. It’s the kind of spot where the sweaty owner in a headband and his kid assistant slur “irasshaimase!”— welcome!

It’s past nap time, but my Californian daughter doesn’t wanna go home. Why would she? It’s Saturday, so she gets an all-day Mama after 45 hours at preschool. The sun—Mister Sun, to give his formal title—is warming every face, so we have to remind ourselves that our huddled relatives in Limerick,…

An introduction to Spacecraft Operations sven Playlists: '35c3' videos starting here / audio / related events 62 min 2018-12-27 7.8k Fahrplan After launching a spacecraft into orbit the actual work for mission control starts. Besides taking care of the position and speed of the spacecraft this…

Eigentlich müsste sich die Schweizerische Post freuen. Nach dem Aus ihres Genfer Konkurrenten CHVote besitzt sie das E-Voting-Monopol im Land. Alle anderen Anbieter haben aufgegeben: weil sie die hohen Sicherheits­kosten scheuen oder den Anforderungen des Bundes nicht standhalten. Freuen müsste sich…

In 1997, Keith Flint was very confused. After a long youth dancing in English rural barns (literally—his local club in Essex was called The Barn), the band he sang for was breaking America. With its third album, The Fat of the Land, led by the massive singles “Firestarter” and “Breathe,” The Prodigy…

Die Tragödien auf den Routen zwischen Libyen, der Türkei, Griechenland, Italien und Malta haben längst einen anderen Raum erkennen lassen: jenen des Versagens, der Lethargie. In den Bildern der gestrandeten Leichname der Flüchtlinge zeigte sich die Diskrepanz zwischen dem menschenrechtlichen…

The girl who was nevermeant to survive By Georgina Pearce When Haven Shepherd was a baby her father detonated a suicide bomb intended to kill the whole family. This is the story of her extraordinary survival and her dreams for the future. Haven Shepherd kneels on the school diving board, takes a…

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lenalena 14.07.2021, 09:57 Uhr Finde ich nun ähnlich wie @DARUMASAN schade, dass Studien wie jene aus der WissHom vom Wiener AKH über die Verbesserung der Lebensqualität mit der Homöopathie als Zusatz für Lungenkrebspatienten, nicht erwähnt, oder schlichtweg vom Tisch gefegt werden. Es ist für mich…

Content warning: This story contains discussion of serious mental health issues and racism. The panic attacks started after Chloe watched a man die. She spent the past three and a half weeks in training, trying to harden herself against the daily onslaught of disturbing posts: the hate speech, the…

Next time you’re having a shit day at work, spare a thought for Australia’s professional poo divers. They’re tasked with making sure the country’s sewerage processing plants are running well. They suit up and dive down into toxic ponds of excrement to clear obstructions and manage the huge machines…

teubi Playlists: '35c3' videos starting here / audio / related events 41 min 2018-12-27 18.4k Fahrplan This talk will teach you the fundamentals of machine learning and give you a sneak peek into the internals of the mystical black box. You'll see how crazy powerful neural networks can be and…

Conspiracy theories used to be seen as bizarre expressions of harmless eccentrics. Not any more. Gone are the days of outlandish theories about Roswell’s UFOs, the “hoax” moon landings or grassy knolls. Instead, today’s iterations have morphed into political weapons. Turbocharged by social media,…

[boat motor] [yelling] [radio chatter] - [inaudible] [yelling] [radio chatter] November 6, 2017, around 150 migrants leave Tripoli aboard a flimsy raft desperate to reach Europe and start new lives. Many of them will drown, the result of decisions made by politicians far away in European capitals.…

When my friends asked why I was walking around school with a lumpy bundle of wrapping paper, I responded as casually as I could that it was Rachel’s birthday. (No, not that Rachel — the one from volleyball, in the grade above us.) When they asked what the present was, I said that I made her a shirt.…

When I arrived in Japan just over a year ago, I had nothing but a backpack, a small purse, and a laptop bag. I had just spent three months in Honolulu, Hawaii trying to find a way to make a living through freelance work online, but things weren’t working out too well. The atmosphere of Honolulu…

“My name is John!” shouted John Allen Chau from his ­kayak in November 2018 as he ­paddled toward strangers on the beach of North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal. “I love you and Jesus loves you!” In response, the people on the remote Indian island strung arrows in their bows. The…