While this CBC Comedy video is complete satire, it still turned my stomach a little. Last year, they made about $1.3 million through sponsored content and collectively have over seven million followers. AJ, the self-proclaimed "man of three accounts," operates all of his channels under the umbrella…

Wenn man 2017 in Deutschland etwas über die Menschen erfahren will, sollte man sich ihre WhatsApp-Kommunikation anschauen. Dort findet der Austausch vergleichsweise unverfälscht statt, begünstigt durch das Gefühl der Nichtöffentlichkeit und die Kontrolle der Gruppen-Admins darüber, wer teilnimmt.…

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The Interprofession du Gruyère represents the milk producers (2200), cheesemakers (170 village cheese makers, and 52 alpine cheese makers) and refiners (9) of Gruyère AOP Switzerland. Responsibilities of the Interprofession include overseeing and controlling the quality, the quantities and the…

Erschossen in Erfüllung seiner Pflicht, bestattet mit allen Ehren: der Cop war eine Legende. Doch eine Frage blieb offen: Warum musste er sterben? Geschichten wie diese finden Sie in stern Crime - dem größten True Crime Magazin Deutschlands. Wahre Verbrechen, wahre Geschichten, nur im Original.…

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Viele nennen es die Trotzphase, manche verspotten es als Kleinkindpubertät, positiver (oder als Betroffene möchte man sagen: euphemistisch) formuliert ist es die Autonomiephase – die Zeit der Willensbildung, die ungefähr im zweiten Lebensjahr beginnt und bis etwa zum vierten andauert. Sie ist…

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On a hot summers day, a trip on the tube to get home can be a dreaded experience, with already hot trains overflowing with sweaty people. But how did we get to a situation where tube trains are stiflingly hot, and what’s being done about it? A talk given by London Underground’s Head of Station…

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Problem A responsibility for the Data team at Airbnb is to scale the ability to make decisions using data. We democratize data access to empower all employees to make data-informed decisions, give everybody the ability to use experiments to correctly measure the impact of their decisions, and turn…

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In 1976, a professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley published an essay outlining the fundamental laws of a force he perceived as humanity’s greatest existential threat: Stupidity. Amazon takes creative control of the James Bond movie franchise Share Subtitles…

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Facebook’s Safety Check feature was activated today, following news that a fire had engulfed a 24-storey block of flats in West London. At least six people are reported to have died in the blaze, with

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A glimpse of WWII Poland. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) During World War II, a man went to the doctor in Rozwadów, Poland with a unique complaint. He was one of thousands of Poles forced by the Nazi occupiers to work in German labor camps. The man had been granted a 14-day leave to visit his family,…

Arthur C. Clarke presents this unusual documentary on the mathematical discovery of the Mandelbrot Set (M-Set) in the visually spectacular world of fractal geometry. This show relates the science of the M-Set to nature in a way that seems to identify the hand of God in the design of the universe…

Six letters will never be enough. #PoweredByPride For this year’s Pride, we collaborated with The LGBT Community Center, NYC’s home and hub for the LGBTQA community, to create a film celebrating the entire LGBTQA Alphabet—twenty-six ways to share who you are and how you love. Because all voices…

Kürzlich berichtete die „New York Times“, wie der Fahrdienstvermittler Uber über Jahre hinweg Behörden in Ländern, in denen der Dienst nicht zugelassen war, mit einer geheimen Software täuschte. Die Software namens Greyball sammelte Standortdaten, Kreditkarteninformationen und Details zu verwendeten…

Conversation with Jack Goody [1] was never dull. He combined an endless curiosity for ethnographic details with a deep interest in broad anthropological questions. Here is a picture of some of his boo

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He was talking to law-makers, policy-makers and power-brokers, people who were, at best, half-smart about technology — just smart enough to understand that in a connected world, every problem society has involves computers, and just stupid enough to demand that computers be altered to solve those…

Death was everywhere. From the slaughtering of animals to inexplicable epidemics to the fatal complications of childbirth, it’s hard to overstate the ubiquity of dying in 18th-century Europe. And yet, since few people understood the many potential failings of the human body, most simply held fast to…

I 'd seen some bad things online, but this was pushing the envelope: a grainy video of two people in the woods somewhere doing foul things on the body of a dead bear. They shoot it out of a tree, which is pretty unsporting to begin with, and then engage in—well, if you'd like to see it, which I…

It’s a Thursday afternoon in Seattle and I’m in the driver’s seat. It’s 4:45 p.m. and I am gripping the wheel of an old first-generation Prius, sweating and panicking, cursing a lot, and completely immobile. I had foolishly made an appointment for 5 p.m. way up on Aurora Avenue and imagined—in a…

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No one in Silicon Valley loves virtual reality or believes in its future as much as Clay Bavor. As vice president of VR and AR for Google, he’s a passionate advocate for the technology, with which he

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点击这里阅读中文版本 (Chinese) | Alex Tizon passed away in March. He was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author of Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self. For more about Alex, please see this editor’s note. The ashes filled a black plastic box about the size of a toaster. It weighed three and…

Watch how curators and imaging technicians photographed the Klencke Atlas, one of the world’s largest maps and a treasure of the British Library. Read more about the Atlas here https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/klencke-atlas.

Cheap open-access journals raise questions about the value publishers add for their money. Credit: BRENDAN MONROE Michael Eisen doesn't hold back when invited to vent. “It's still ludicrous how much it costs to publish research — let alone what we pay,” he declares. The biggest travesty, he says, is…

After 17 years, ProgrammableWeb has shut down operations. Since joining MuleSoft in 2013, ProgrammableWeb has sought to bring awareness to the impact APIs can have on modern businesses. Nearly a decad

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