Alles wäre nicht passiert, wenn. Wenn Tisi etwas weniger getrunken hätte. Wenn er an der richtigen Haltestelle ausgestiegen wäre. Wenn es geregnet hätte. Wenn er vorher einen Moment länger nachgedacht hätte. Tisi würde jetzt nicht im Rollstuhl sitzen. Ein warmer Sommerabend im August 2013. Tisi ist…

Annals of Entomology Roboticists are fascinated by their “swarm intelligence,” biologists by their ability to turn grass into energy. But can humans replicate their achievements? September 10, 2018 Isoptera have capacities that synthetic biologists and roboticists alike seek to copy.Illustration by…

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the Military Industrial PowerPoint Complex The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders—I like to say we’re archivists” Wayback Machine Director Mark Graham outlines the scale of everyone’s favorite archive. Nathan Mattise – Oct 7, 2018 10:00 am | 85 Browsing the Wayback Machine at ONA '18...…

Jack Black gives The Tonight Show audience a taste of the Sax-A-Boom skills he made famous by playing the toy instrument at Tenacious D shows. Subscribe NOW to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: http://bit.ly/1nwT1aN Watch The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Weeknights 11:35/10:35c Get more…

Der Himmel war klar und die Rodelbahn vereist. Ich hatte meine Liebsten um mich, es war der letzte Tag des Jahres 2017. Ich rodelte so schnell wie noch nie und plötzlich flog ich mit gefühlt 60 Stunde

Last summer I got an email from a man whose reputation, and voice, preceded him. His name is Eric Nadel, and as the veteran commentator for the Texas Rangers baseball team, he’s a Texas sports icon. He has a lifetime contract announcing games for the franchise and has joked that he hopes to outlive…

This blog is mainly reserved for cryptography, and I try to avoid filling it with random “someone is wrong on the Internet” posts. After all, that’s what Twitter is for! But from time to time something bothers me enough that I have to make an exception. Today I wanted to write specifically about…

Klimawandel: «Einfach ein schöner Sommer» Nr. 39 – 27. September 2018 Der Klimawandel ist wissenschaftlich völlig unbestritten. Doch das hindert prominente Köpfe der SVP-Bundeshausfraktion nicht daran, Verschwörungstheorien zu spinnen und Irrsinn zu verbreiten. Von (Text) und Luca Schenardi…

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How do you decaffeinate coffee? 18 September 2018 Stephen DowlingFeatures correspondent Getty Images Some of us love the taste of coffee but can’t deal with the effects of caffeine. So how exactly do you take the caffeine out of a coffee bean? If you’re partial to a cup of coffee minus the caffeine,…

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Feature stories, read aloud: Download the Audm app for your iPhone. I. The Fabric of Reality By the time Nev Jones entered DePaul University’s esteemed doctoral program in philosophy, she had aced virtually every course she ever took, studied five languages and become proficient in three, and seemed…

In August 2016, a handful of crude images began circulating widely throughout Facebook’s Filipino community: a middle-aged man and woman having clumsy sex atop a tacky floral bedspread. The man’s face, obscured by shadows, was impossible to make out. The woman’s was not. She appeared to be Sen.…

A newer version of this post was published on December 18th, 2018. There are two stories here. The first is a story about a vision of the web’s future that never quite came to fruition. The second is a story about how a collaborative effort to improve a popular standard devolved into one of the most…

Hours after a mob of villagers beat five strangers to death over a rumor on WhatsApp, nobody wanted to clean up the blood: There was just too much of it. It lay congealed in a 6-foot-long puddle on the floor of the Rainpada village council office. The walls and the dusty portraits of Mahatma Gandhi…

When we say with LEGO Technic you can BUILD FOR REAL, we really mean it! Here’s our amazing 1:1 version of the iconic Bugatti Chiron. Not only does it look like the real thing, it also drives as well – and to prove it we took it for a spin on the same German track where Bugatti do their testing……

Denise Mueller-Korenek set the women's paced bicycle speed record in 2016, pedaling to 147 miles per hour. Now she's ready to attempt to break the overall record of 167 miles per hour and take the title of fastest cyclist ever. UPDATE! On Sept. 16, 2018 Denise Mueller-Korenek set a new record –…

What would it take to turn the world into one big fusion reaction, wiping it clean of life and turning it into a barren rock? Asking for a friend. Graphic from the 1946 film, “One World Or None,” created by the National Committee on Atomic Information, advocating for the importance of the…

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The chemistry professor and his wife argued often in those days, as their marriage was coming to an end and a custody battle brewed over their two young children. Then, one summer night, things got so heated that the police were called to intervene. Brian and Stacey McNaughton had bought their…

Mastodon Is Better than Twitter: Elevator Pitch Mastodon is a newcomer social media platform that is a lot like Twitter—shortmessages, followers, hashtags, all that. But Mastodon is much better than Twitter,and not just because being totally ad-free and keeping chronological timelines makeit far…

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How young black entrepreneurs created a music empire that eventually topped UK charts. This documentary about the history of house music explores the origins of the genre, and features interviews with Nile Rodgers, Traxman, Jesse Saunders, Honey Dijon and Marshall Jefferson. DISCLAIMERS IMPORTANT :…

How social unrest and Chicago's underground gay clubs led to a global dance movement. This documentary about the history of house music explores the origins of the genre, and features interviews with Nile Rodgers, Traxman, Jesse Saunders, Honey Dijon and Marshall Jefferson. DISCLAIMERS IMPORTANT : I…

Four virtual-reality films that take you on, above and below the Antarctic ice. Watch below or download the NYT VR app for a fully immersive experience. Produced by Jonathan Corum and Graham Roberts with support from the National Science Foundation and the United States Antarctic Program.…

Manchmal kommen Eltern mit Handy am Ohr in die Kita und machen nur so eine Handbewegung Richtung Kind, dass es mitkommen soll. Wenn ich sowas sehe, sage ich extra laut Hallo oder Tschüss. Ich habe auch schonmal einer telefonierenden Mutter ein Blatt Papier unter die Nase gehalten und gesagt: „Dein…

According to the Chinese calendar, 2017 was the Year of the Cock. 2018 is the Year of the Dog. And, in Dog years, this is also the Year of the Cock Pill: Viagra. The revolutionary erectile-dysfunction drug is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of its Brobdingnagian launch in a most auspicious…

In the second episode of our series Under the Influence, we examine the late-70s ska revival in the UK, a movement built upon the fusion of punk rock and traditional ska. Led by the Specials, we look at how the cultural climate of the time period in the UK inspired the founding of 2 Tone Records and…

SchweizLebenWie eine Reportage über die SBB-Minibar scheiterte Bild: keystone, watson Wie ich zwei Jahre über die SBB-Minibar schreiben wollte – und kläglich scheiterte Ich habe über Krieg geschrieben, über Flüchtlinge, über Seenotrettung, über die Türkei. Doch eine Reportage über die Minibar der…

A professor of mine once said to me that all teaching was a process of lying, and then of replacing the lies with successively better approximations of the truth. “I say it's like this,” he said, “and then later I say, well, it's not actually like that, it's more like this, because the real story is…

In June 2016, Antonio Perkins unintentionally broadcast his own death to the world. It was a sunny day in Chicago, and he was sharing it on Facebook $META Live, a platform for distributing video in real-time, released just a few months earlier. The video is long. It features Perkins doing mundane…

When you look at the stats, it’s hard not to conclude that the current PhD system is fundamentally broken. Mental health issues are rife: approximately one-third of PhD students are at risk of having or developing a psychiatric disorder like depression. The high level of dropouts is similarly…

Keine Nachfrage nötig: Ein Knabe isst Poulet. Foto: Getty Images Es gibt Dinge, über die ich nur rede, wenn ich darauf angesprochen werde. Oder wenn es eine Kolumne zu schreiben gilt und ich feststell

Dieser Text ist Teil unserer Reihe #D18. Alle Texte der Serie finden Sie hier. Warum ist dieser Mann kein Held? © ZEIT ONLINE Wir sitzen schon wieder im Auto und sind auf dem Rückweg. Sigmund Jähn hatte mich vom Bahnhof in Strausberg abgeholt, und nun will er mich, weil man das einfach so macht, wie…

Many of our most vexing problems, from overeating to not saving enough for retirement to not working out enough have something in common: lack of self-control. Self-control is what gives us the capacity to say no to choices that are immediately gratifying but costly in the long term—that piece of…

The Worst Computer Bugs in History is a mini series to commemorate the discovery of the first computer bug seventy years ago. Although these stories are more extreme than most software bugs engineers will encounter during their careers, they are worth studying for the insights they can offer into…

In 2010, Chris and Melissa Bruntlett sold their cars and began transporting their family of four around Vancouver, BC, by bike. They noticed that bicyclists’ stories were not being told, so they started blogging about their carless lifestyle at the website of what would become their creative agency,…

This post will probably only make sense to those deeply involved in Mastodon and the fediverse. So if that’s not your thing, or you’re not interested in issues of social media and safety online, you may want to skip this post. I keep thinking of the Wil Wheaton fiasco as a kind of security incident…