I STEPPED FROM the warmth of our source’s London flat. That February night in 1977, the air was damp and cool, the buzz of traffic muted in this leafy North London suburb, in the shadow of the iconic
For most people, getting stuck in a traffic jam on the New Jersey Turnpike is a grueling lesson in futility. But if you're Simon Garnier of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, you often view it as an opportunity to examine our collective behavior and ponder how we became so inefficient compared…
A full-size truck. A little girl with a remote control. A gravel pit filled with obstacles. Is our toughest truck tough enough to survive Sophie? Find out, share, and comment. This live test was set up to demonstrate the sturdiness and mobility of the Volvo FMX. A unique cage construction, cast-iron…
He knows no greater sadness than the end of a book. If you enjoyed this video and would like to help spread the love of reading, please check out http://travelingstories.org/ which exists to promote literacy and transform reluctant readers into confident ones! For any licensing requests please…
Mention Shenzhen to most people, and they’ll probably think of the vast Foxconn manufacturing plant that churns out high-end phones, tablets, laptops, and gaming consoles for the likes of Apple, Microsoft, Dell, and Sony. The size of a small city —with an estimated half a million employees—Foxconn’s…
Porträt des verstorbenen Diktators Kim Jong Il als Anstecknadel Foto: DAVID GUTTENFELDER / PICTURE ALLIANCE / AP Sie können den Artikel leider nicht mehr aufrufen. Der Link, der Ihnen geschickt wurde, ist entweder älter als 30 Tage oder der Artikel wurde bereits 10 Mal geöffnet. Dieser Beitrag…
Craig Cannon 20 min read· Nov 14, 2015 -- Heads up! Below is a super long post about bike stuff. If you like this sort of thing you can subscribe to my newsletter about bike rides. I arrive in Vietnam with a vague plan: bike from Saigon to Hanoi. At a Czech bar in Saigon an English expat tells me…
Dept. of Technology Unfollow November 15, 2015 It was easy for Megan Phelps-Roper to tweet things that made people cringe—she knew that they were evil or deluded by God.Photograph by Katy Grannan for The New Yorker On December 1, 2009, to commemorate World AIDS Day, Twitter announced a promotion: if…
Watch how the Syrian civil war became the mess it is today. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO After four-plus years of fighting, Syria's war has killed at least 250,000 people and displaced 12 million people. And, though it started as a civil war, it's become much more than that. It's a…
The following is a TED Talk from Johann Hari, author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs. One of my earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of my relatives and not being able to. And I was just a little kid, so I didn't really understand why, but as I got older,…
Phil Kennedy no longer saw any other way to get the data. That was how one day he came to lie blissfully unconscious on an operating table in Belize while a neurosurgeon sawed off the top of his skull. Last year, Kennedy, a 67-year-old neurologist and inventor, did something unprecedented in the…
It's not surprising that in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks last Friday, US government officials would renew their assault on encryption and revive their efforts to force companies to install backdoors in secure products and encryption software. Just last month, the government seemed to…
Annals of Technology November 18, 2015 Illustration by Randall Munroe There once was a doctor with cool white hair. He was well known because he came up with some important ideas. He didn’t grow the cool hair until after he was done figuring that stuff out, but by the time everyone realized how good…
Kriss Kyle performs a number of world's first BMX tricks in an ever-changing environment that isn’t quite what it seems leading to a ground-breaking BMX film. ► Watch more Kriss Kyle BMX videos in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnuf8iyXggLHYUYHh0D3S-Cx3Wk5ZKmVo ► Click to…
Wann hat es angefangen? Vielleicht vor einem Jahr. Es war ein lauer Abend im Juli. An den Tischen auf dem Bürgersteig beim Italiener tranken die Gäste Weißwein. Da geschah etwas, das in Berlin recht oft passiert: Mit einem Mal war die viel befahrene Rosenthaler Straße nicht mehr viel befahren, dafür…
Here’s one way to understand the symbiotic relationship between publications and platforms in the digital age. Publications depend on advertising dollars to keep producing content, so they need to hold readers’ attention. Big platforms like Facebook $META and Twitter $TWTR already have plenty of…
Klein Bottle enthusiast Cliff Stoll uses a diamond saw on a glass Klein Bottle. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ More videos about his bottles: http://bit.ly/KleinBottles Cliff's site (selling bottles): http://bit.ly/ACME_Klein Support us on Patreon:…
In May of this year, Facebook announced Facebook Instant Articles, its foray into innovating the Facebook user experience around news reading. A month later, Apple introduced their own take with their Apple News app, which allows “stories to be specially formatted to look and feel like articles…
CHAPTER 1: Murder In the Alps The driver was a British engineer born in Iraq who worked on satellite systems in Surrey, and maybe that’s why he was dead and all the others were, too. On a Wednesday afternoon in September 2012, Saad al-Hilli drove his maroon BMW from a campground on the shore of Lake…
In September 2015, Adam built his first duck bomb from his duck army. Since then, he's recruited more ducks (and some flamingos) to his army; it's time to build the ultimate duck army bomb. Time for a One Day Build! Shot and edited by Joey Fameli Subscribe for more videos!…
For more information and stills gallery, please turn to: http://www.erikwernquist.com/wanderers/ For the original vimeo version, please go here: https://vimeo.com/108650530 ----- Wanderers is a vision of humanity's expansion into the Solar System, based on scientific ideas and concepts of what our…
Nikola Tesla's valvular conduit is another one of his forgotten inventions. Invented in 1920 it has largely been overlooked. What is it? In simple terms it is a one-way valve. That in itself is not special. What makes it special is the fact it has NO moving parts. Think about that for a moment. How…
New York City has over 6,000 miles of streets across five boroughs. William Helmreich and Matt Green plan to walk every last block. Though they are doing the same thing, Helmreich and Green have vastly different approaches and reasons for embarking on the journey. In this video, the two men meet for…
Anzeige P ierre Gruneberg ist ein Mann mit vielen Missionen, und jede davon beginnt mit einer Salatschüssel. Ein Nudeltopf oder eine Kasserolle täten es zur Not zwar auch. Aber die „Méthode du Saladier“, patentiert seit 1953, ist nur echt mit der Schüssel, denn mit ihr lehrt er wasserscheue…
Vor der Reise habe ich immer wieder versucht, mir vorzustellen, wie es danach sein würde. Manchmal hatte ich Bilder von einer entspannten und glücklichen Familie im Kopf. An anderen Tagen hatte ich Angst, dass alles beim Alten bleibt. Jetzt, drei Jahre später, bin ich in der Lage zu beurteilen, was…
Und dann schlägt sie zu. Sie prügelt auf seinen Bauch ein, auf seine Arme und Hände, immer wieder auf die Hände, damit er endlich seine verdammte Kamera loslässt. Sie drückt ihn an die Wand und tritt ihm in die Hoden. Dann sieht sie zu, wie ihre Kameraden den Rest erledigen. Wie 30 Männer und Frauen…
Unissued / unused footage - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. Australian newsreel titles read: 'The Eyes Have It. NEW LOOK IN GLASSES'. Sydney, Australia. C/U of woman's eyes wearing massive contact lenses - looks quite uncomfortable. Several shots show the complete process of making the…
In a 1997 segment on the short-lived tech TV show The Site, host Soledad O’Brien sits at a bar in front of a laptop computer, talking to Dev Null, a full-scale human avatar with frosted fuchsia tips and a soul patch. Motion-captured from the show’s second host backstage, he swivels from side to…
SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 Technical Paper Video Project Page: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~niessner/thies2015realtime.html We present a method for the real-time transfer of facial expressions from an actor in a source video to an actor in a target video, thus enabling the ad-hoc control of the facial…
Something seemed strange. Staring out of a hotel window in São Paulo, my eye was caught by an oversized digital display crowning the top of an undersized skyscraper. Steadily flashing the time, then the temperature, the display was incongruous in a way that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. It was…
Humans are remarkably good at self-deception. But growing concern about reproducibility is driving many researchers to seek ways to fight their own worst instincts. Access through your institution This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution Relevant articles Open Access…
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