Welcome to the party! Today you will participate in an interactive experiment about the birthday paradox. We will use you, the reader, as part of our data, to help explain what it is, why it is cool, and how it works. Hello! I’m Russell. On what day of the year were you born? Please tell me your…

Diese Geschichte steht nur Abonnenten zur Verfügung Lock icon Als Kind wurde er von seinem Vater missbraucht. Jahrelang hat er geschwiegen. Dann lässt er ihn büssen. Erwin Koch Hätte es geregnet, hätte ich es nicht getan. Oder später vielleicht. Ich tat es am 24. Juni 2014 – hier steht es…

American Chronicles Teens have taken a technology that was supposed to help grownups stop smoking and invented a new kind of bad habit, molded in their own image. May 7, 2018 “Smoking is gross,” a high schooler said. “Juuling is really what’s up.”Photograph by Elizabeth Renstrom for The New Yorker…

The other day, I found myself looking at a blinking cursor in a blank address bar in a new tab of my web browser. I was bored. I didn’t really feel like doing work, but I felt some distant compulsion to sit at my computer in a kind of work-simulacrum, so that at least at the end of the day I would…

Saturation divers do construction and demolition work at depths up to 1,000 feet or more, and must spend weeks living in a pressurized environment. All Illustrations: Matt Chinworth For 52 straight days this winter, Shannon Hovey woke up in the company of five other men in a metal tube, 20 feet long…

AP Photo It’s with a spasm of profits. Jack Shafer is Politico’s senior media writer. For a preview of the newspaper industry’s coming death, turn your gaze to Colorado, where the withering and emaciated Denver Post finds itself rolling in profits. The Post’s controlling owner, “vulture capitalist”…

This is a translation of this article in Russian. Far from perfect, but understandable, I hope. Written by Ilya Zverev, CC-BY. Riding the wave of Google Maps pricing news, Tom Chadwin reminded everyone of benefits of using open source solutions, and concluded with these words: “You now have a…

Letter from Tokyo People who are short on relatives can hire a husband, a mother, a grandson. The resulting relationships can be more real than you’d expect. April 23, 2018 The head of one rental-relative company described the service as “human affection expressed through the form of the…

For her latest film, Chinese-American director Jessica Kingdon takes us on a tour of China’s Yiwu Market—the largest wholesale consumer goods mall in the world. This award-winning work, which screened at Slamdance Film Festival, focuses on the daily lives of market vendors and their role in…

Visual content available on a rights managed license. NOT available for Creative Commons license. "Transient" [tran-shuh nt, -zhuh nt, -zee-uh nt] Adjective. not lasting, enduring, or permanent; lasting only a short time; existing briefly. Philosophy. person or thing that is transient, especially a…

Dieser Text ist im April 2018 erstmals im Tagesspiegel erschienen. Am 26. Juni 2019 wurde Maris Hubschmid dafür mit dem Theodor-Wolff-Preis des Bundesverbands Deutscher Zeitungsverleger (BDZV) ausgezeichnet – in der Kategorie „Reportage lokal“. Wir gratulieren unserer Kollegin und empfehlen Ihnen…

"Was ist euer Lieblingsverein?", fragt der Museumsführer im Hampden Park von Glasgow, dem ältesten Stadion der Welt. Leeds United, sagen die beiden Engländer. Fortuna Düsseldorf, sagt Mirco von Juterczenka. Sein Sohn Jason blickt ihn kurz an, weil die anderen jetzt auf seine Antworten warten. Dann…

The suction fan on the Space Station potty is so loud that, well, everyone knows when you ‘go.’ Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti explains how to turn on that fan and how-to use the International Space Station toilet. -- How to Wash Your Hair In Space:…

When we asked New York writer and programmer Marco Arment to speak at XOXO, he was still developing Instapaper and The Magazine, and Tumblr was an independent startup. Since then, he sold The Magazine to Glenn Fleishman, Instapaper to Betaworks, and Tumblr sold to Yahoo in a billion-dollar deal. One…

Home › Essays › Compulsion: Where Object Meets Anxiety The author with her brother August 18, 2009 Compulsion: Where Object Meets Anxiety A sister’s reflection on her brother’s life with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and how design, love, and fear intertwine in the everyday objects around us. My…

It was supposed to be the laptop that saved the world. In late 2005, tech visionary and MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte pulled the cloth cover off a small green computer with a bright yellow crank. The device was the first working prototype for Negroponte’s new nonprofit One Laptop Per…

A Buddhist mob set fire to Muslim-owned shops and homes in Digana, Sri Lanka, in March.Credit...Rauff Hakeem, via Storyful The Interpreter False rumors set Buddhist against Muslim in Sri Lanka, the most recent in a global spate of violence fanned by social media. A Buddhist mob set fire to…

I remember well the first time my certainty of a bright future evaporated, when my confidence in the panacea of technological progress was shaken. It was in 2007, on a warm September evening in San Fr

Empörungsspirale: Eine neue Dimension Nr. 14 – 5. April 2018 Die Polizei veröffentlicht Ende März das Video einer Schlägerei zwischen Fussballultras mitten in Zürich. Die Onlinemedien verlinken es euphorisch. Psychologen werden bemüht, die Medien sind «ratlos», «betroffen» und «schockiert». Von 28.…

Mutter, Vater, Kind ist heute längst nicht mehr das gängige Familienmodell. Viele homosexuelle Paare wünschen sich Kinder. Wie erfüllen sie sich den Kinderwunsch? Wie gestalten sich die Beziehungen untereinander? Wer hat welche und wieviel Rechte? Das Beispiel von Eva und ihrer Partnerin zeigt, wie…

Life is a game that must be played is the premise of artist Páraic McGloughlin’s new experimental short Arena. Created using Google Earth imagery, the piece is a fast-paced look at the earth from above, reflecting the shapes we make, the game of life and the planet as our playing ground. I had the…

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Thank you for visiting Mosaic. Wellcome's digital platform dedicated to long-form journalism about science and health was active between 2014 and 2019 and has now closed. We want to thank you for your support and engagement with Mosaic over the years. We’d also like to thank the writers, editors,…

The modern web contains no shortage of horrors, from ubiquitous ad trackers to all-consuming platforms to YouTube comments, generally. Unfortunately, there's no panacea for what ails this internet we've built. But anyone weary of black-box algorithms controlling what you see online at least has a…

A collaboration with Jared. Before any build log, here's a video: That was a Rubik's cube being solved in 0.38 seconds. The time is from the moment the keypress is registered on the computer, to when the last face is flipped. It includes image capture and computation time, as well as actually moving…

Three years ago, overcome by the squalor of my home, I decided to hire a cleaner. I scanned Craigslist, feeling a prick of guilt; few things arouse class angst as reliably as the purchase of domestic help. Then I remembered another option. Near my Connecticut home was a refugee-resettlement center.…

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March 18, 2018 Eric Dorsey, a 62-year-old engineer in Palo Alto, was watching TV Tuesday night when he started getting texts that Stephen Hawking had died. He turned on the news and saw clips of the f

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Read the English version of this article here Du bist 18, als du dich zum ersten Mal in einen Jungen verliebst. Du willst mit ihm schlafen, aber du erfährst, dass dies nicht so einfach geht. Das, was du für deine Vagina hältst, sei nur zwei Zentimeter tief, sagen die Ärzte. Damit Geschlechtsverkehr…

A Reporter at Large November 19, 2009 Photograph By Michael Dalder / Reuters When people in South Africa say “Limpopo,” they mean the middle of nowhere. They are referring to the northernmost province of the country, along the border with Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique, where few people have…

In einem Dorf, das es bald nicht mehr geben wird, leben zwei Familien, die gerade von vorne beginnen. Die Klosterhalfens und die Jabars. Die Jabars sind zu fünft. Yasir ist 15, der Bruder Muhtaz elf, die Schwester Ghadeer 13, ihre Eltern heißen Mohammed und Rasha. Vor mehr als zwei Jahren haben die…