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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American When my son was born a few months ago, he quickly established himself as the tyrant of our household, one that ruled with a singular phonetic…

When it comes to repair, farmers have always been self reliant. But the modernization of tractors and other farm equipment over the past few decades has left most farmers in the dust thanks to diagnostic software that large manufacturers hold a monopoly over. In this episode of State of Repair,…

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This small lake outside Stockholm, Sweden, emits otherworldly sounds as Mårten Ajne skates over its precariously thin, black ice. “Wild ice skating,” or “Nordic skating,” is both an art and a science. A skater seeks out the thinnest, most pristine black ice possible—both for its smoothness, and for…

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The opening ceremony of any Olympics provides pageantry at a global scale, a celebration that, at its best, can create moments every bit as indelible as the games themselves. For the Pyeongchang Games, those watching the curtain-raiser at home also witnessed a sight never seen before: a…

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Years ago, I used Google Talk with almost everyone I talked to. Nowadays, I talk with almost no one on Hangouts. Google Talk has changed from "so good I can recommend to everyone" to a nightmare called Hangouts. So how did we get to this point? After Gmail, Google came up with Google Talk which is a…

Natascia De Franceschi berichtet über den “Mapathon” in Wien Jeder kennt die ausgezeichnete Arbeit von Ärzte ohne Grenzen und ihren Einsatz in Krisengebieten: das Team von Ärzte ohne Grenzen wird aktiv, wenn das lokale Gesundheitssystem nicht mehr in der Lage oder willens ist, den Betroffenen zu…

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Americans got tired of big social media in 2017. Or at least, we stopped wanting to look at it, and we stopped pretending to like it. This feels true to me as someone who uses the internet every day, but I also know it’s true because when The Verge partnered with Reticle Research to conduct a…

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One day while walking around Shinjuku, a major hub for government and business in Tokyo, Japan, I noticed a shelter built by a homeless man. It looked semi-permanent, but more importantly, had solar panels on it. I thought this was very different than the homeless I encountered in my former city of…

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My new year’s resolution was to give up on reading Twitter and Facebook. I gave up on the feeds because they were making me angry. A lot of times I was angry because of politics, but even on non-political things, the feeds seemed like they were full of conflict and stress. I can’t tell you how much…

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Well, shit. I’ve been watching this situation for a few years, and assuming it would just blow over so we wouldn’t have to talk about it here in this place where we are supposed to be busy improving our lives. But a collective insanity has sprouted around the new field of ‘cryptocurrencies’, causing…

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