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,…

transcript 0:00/15:58 -15:58 transcript How Europe Outsources Migrant Suffering at Sea European countries are outsourcing their humanitarian responsibilities to a dubious partner. Our investigation shows the deadly results. [boat motor] [yelling] [radio chatter] - [inaudible] [yelling] [radio…

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…

George Clarke asked his father not to text him when he went on holiday to Valencia in September 2015; he didn’t want his father to be charged the extra fees. When Clarke, 25, landed back in the UK a week later, he headed straight to the restaurant where he worked as a waiter. His boss told him that…

Am 18. April 2016 läuft Max O. auf Socken durch den Flur seiner Schule in der Bremer Neustadt und öffnet die Glastür eines kleinen Büros. Auf dem Tisch steht eine weiße Pappschachtel, die an ihn adressiert ist. Neben der Schachtel stehen der Direktor der Schule, ein Lehrer und ein Polizist, erinnert…

Yesterday morning, I woke up and deleted all my social media. My Instagram, Twitter, and personal Facebook accounts (I deleted my Facebook business page a year earlier), all gone. I ghosted from the party. As a small business, it’s a bold move (if not insane) to walk away from such successful pages…

Durch den kleinen Ort im Nordosten Tschechiens weht ein schneidend kalter Wind. Die einzige Gaststätte hat geschlossen. Also kommt der Mann zur Bahnstation. Das Gespräch muss hier stattfinden, seine Kollegen im Wohnheim sollen nicht erfahren, dass er einen Journalisten trifft. Es ist kalt im…

Elements Cheap and simple medical devices could improve performance and lower health-care costs, but first they have to overcome deeply rooted biases. February 4, 2019 People may be pleased to see the price of flat-screen TVs drop, but they aren’t necessarily comforted to see the cost of medicine…

For some time, I’ve been meaning to write about German transportation systems like what’s an S-Bahn or what’s a Stadtbahn. With the recent news out of Quebec, I figured I’d instead talk about a transportation concept that doesn’t actually transport anybody at all: the Gadgetbahn. The word…

Der Vater An dem Tag, an dem ich nach Rüdiger frage, nimmt mich sein Vater mit ins Arbeitszimmer und erzählt mir von einem Tennisspieler. Er macht die Tür hinter sich zu, was er sonst nur tut, wenn eine Sportübertragung läuft, die er sich in Ruhe ansehen will, nimmt ein dunkelgrünes Fotoalbum aus…

Email’s beginning was perfectly unremarkable: “QWERTYUIOP.” A keyboard burp. Something your cat might type. A nothing message sent by Ray Tomlinson in 1971 to test the system. But email has stayed, and has largely stayed decentralized, and from that — its ubiquity and lack of central authority —…

Was ist die Anastasia-Bewegung?: 990 000 Jahre mit Gott im Paradies Nr. 43 – 27. Oktober 2016 Die Anastasia-Bewegung hat ihren Ursprung in Russland. Der Staat, die Medien, die WissenschaftlerInnen: Von allen fühlen sich ihre AnhängerInnen manipuliert. Und flüchten aufs Land. Von Der Glaube ihrer…

Diese Geschichte steht nur Abonnenten zur Verfügung Lock icon Ein Mann erfüllt Menschen, die bald sterben werden, ihre letzten Wünsche. Ein letztes Mal Zigaretten oder zum Rolling Stones-Konzert: Frank Wenzlow macht's möglich. Alexander Krützfeldt Frank Wenzlows erster Fahrgast war eine kleine Frau…

Welcome to Monday Methods! Today's post will be a bit longer than previous posts because of the topic: Holocaust Denial and how to combat it. It's a rather specific topic but in recent weeks, we have noticed a general uptick of Holocaust Denial and "JAQing" in this sub and with the apparently…

When was the last time you thought of the internet as a weird and wonderful place? I can feel my anxiety climbing as I try to find current news stories about sex. Google News shows one lonely result for "porn," an article that is 26 days old. I log out of everything and try different browsers…

Early adopters of LED lighting will remember 50,000 hour or even 100,000 hour lifetime ratings printed on the box. But during a recent trip to the hardware store the longest advertised lifetime I found was 25,000 hours. Others claimed only 7,500 or 15,000 hours. And yes, these are brand-name bulbs…

Published inMarker · 14 min read· Feb 7, 2019 -- Medium no longer allows this article to be read easily, so I’ve moved this article to be available directly on my website. Sorry for the inconvenience! Credit: Zdenek Sasek/iStock/Getty Images Plus In 2011, I left my job as the second employee at…

Another week, another set of scandals at Facebook and Google. This past week, my colleagues reported that Facebook and Google had abused Apple enterprise developer certificates in order to distribute

Developers, designers, and strategists, here’s something you can do for the health of the web: Test all your sites in Firefox. Yes, we should all design to web standards to the best of our ability. Yes, we should all test our work in *every* browser and device we can. Yes, yes, of course yes. But…

If you use social media, you've probably noticed a trend across Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter of people posting their then-and-now profile pictures, mostly from 10 years ago and this year. Instead of joining in, I posted the following semi-sarcastic tweet: X content This content can also be…