Annals of Medicine Its mysterious power may be a clue to a new theory about brains and bodies. June 23, 2008 Scientists once saw itching as a form of pain. They now believe it to be a different order of sensation.Photograph by Gerald Slota It was still shocking to M. how much a few wrong turns could…

Profiles Breaking the Waves February 2, 2014 For long-distance swimmers like Diana Nyad, the greatest barrier is mental endurance.Photograph by Catherine Opie / Regen Projects The first time Diana Nyad tried to swim around Manhattan, in the fall of 1975, she was pulled out of the East River in the…

ICQ, short for "I Seek You," laid the groundwork for standalone instant messaging clients when it debuted in November 1996. Think about how long ago that was... Microsoft's trailblazing Windows 95 was barely a year old, Nintendo had just introduced the N64, and those with a reason to have a cell…

It’s pricey, it’s portable, its users need it constantly, and retailers love to buy it at a discount. All of which makes it a perfect product to steal. It’s pricey, it’s portable, its users need it constantly, and retailers love to buy it at a discount. All of which makes it a perfect product to…

TM Audio subscribers can listen to this article. Subscribe today for audio stories, bonus podcast episodes, and much more. Already a subscriber? . She never felt right about sending him to prison. Every year around Christmas, Estella Ybarra would find herself thinking back to December 1990 and that…

Insys Therapeutics paid millions of dollars to doctors. The company called it a “speaker program,” but prosecutors now call it something else: a kickback scheme. The Baby-Formula Crime Ring It’s pricey, it’s portable, its users need it constantly, and retailers love to buy it at a discount. All of…

It was 6.30am on a Saturday when I found out Fred had died. I was sitting by the window on the second floor of my friend’s home in Brooklyn. I had woken up early, buzzing from the adrenaline of a series of unaccustomed public appearances following the recent publication of my book. Mindlessly, I…

Untangling Threads Back in the fall, I wrote a series of posts on a particularly horrific episode in Meta’s past. I hadn’t planned to revisit the topic immediately, but here we are, with Threads federation with the ActivityPub-based fediverse ecosystem an increasingly vivid reality. My own emotional…

Update: See my daily math streak progress here 👈 I recently passed 100 days of practicing math every single day 💯 I’ve wanted to beef up my math chops for a while, but I needed a good reason that would justify the time investment. Plus, it’s always easier to learn when you have a clear goal and…

[epistemic status: speculative] I. Millgram et al (2015) find that depressed people prefer to listen to sad rather than happy music. This matches personal experience; when I'm feeling down, I also prefer sad music. But why? Try setting aside all your internal human knowledge: wouldn’t it make more…

I’m just so angry. It’s been boiling and bubbling (and toiling and troubling) for awhile now. Not just since a spoilt, sadistic emerald heir stole—and yes, I am using that word; I’m using it deliberately and with fury aforethought—Twitter out from under the people who created it and made it the…

Künstliche Intelligenz ist seit 1½ Jahren in aller Munde. Die Meinungen gehen von «KI wird uns in ein goldenes Zeitalter führen» über «KI ist vollkommen nutzlos» bis zu «KI wird unsere Welt zerstören». Das liege daran, dass wir alle Anwendungen und Entwicklungen in denselben Topf werfen würden, es…

Wandering hand-in-hand through the medieval streets of Bologna, my boyfriend and I were in awe of the sweeping porticoes and distinctive rust-red brickwork of the city. It was our first holiday together. We’d wanted to find somewhere beyond the obvious that would marry our respective interests in…

Buttons feel magical. You press here, and invisible connections make something happen elsewhere. But “magical” is probably not how I’d describe most public drinking fountains. In today’s digital age, it sometimes feels like hardware has taken a back seat to the software that drives our devices.…

Most days, this column looks at controversies unfolding on other tech platforms. Today, let’s take a look at the one that hosts this publication: Substack. On Tuesday, I told subscribers that we are considering leaving the platform based on the company’s recent statement that it would not demonetize…

«Absolut deckungsgleich mit der Jungen Tat» – wie sich die Junge SVP der rechtsextremen Szene annähert Interne Whatsapp-Chats zeigen: Innerhalb der Jungen SVP wird heftig über die Nähe zur Jungen Tat gestritten. Ein Parteipräsident findet, man vertrete zu Recht «exakt die gleichen Inhalte» wie die…

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There are only a few opportunities to make a living by getting good at creating tables to facilitate high-frequency math that end-users will find entertaining but will have predictable statistical properties at scale. One of them is designing roleplaying games. Seems like an interesting topic but…

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With Microsoft’s rollout of the new Outlook for Windows(new window), it appears the company has transformed its email app into a surveillance tool for targeted advertising. Everyone talks about the privacy-washing campaigns of Google and Apple as they mine your online data to generate advertising…

Between 2010 and 2020, iO Tillett Wright photographed 10,000 queer and trans people in all 50 states for a series titled “Self Evident Truths.” This is a selection of people on the trans spectrum from that work. Photo: iO Tillett Wright This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s…

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It shouldn’t be hard to empathize with the pain of the Israeli victims, or the pain of the Palestinian ones. But paradoxically, it seems almost impossible to empathize with both sides at the same time. Why is that? This question, apparently is not exclusive to this conflict. In a study focusing on…

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Marco Musy, EMBL Barcelona I2K 2022 | GatherTown Workshops Q&A Session #5 | May 10th vedo (vedo.embl.es) is a python library for scientific analysis and visualization of three-dimensional datasets. The module is useful for the analysis of any type of data having spatial and/or temporal structure,…

New! Discord Server: https://discord.gg/Kuz7QkN7w4 Please support me on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/machinethinking This is the first video in a series of recreating the first micrometer. Before I introduce the project, I look into where precision comes from. Please Like, Share and Subscribe One…

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When you’re using an online map as a consumer, one of the things you will undoubtedly do is search for places — or as the mapping industry likes to call them ‘places of interest’, ‘points of interest’ or ‘POIs’ 1. In performing these searches there are generally two factors: one factor is almost…

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On satellite imagery, we spotted a village inside a strange crater in Madagascar. We set out to learn how it got there. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Right in the center of the island nation of Madagascar there’s a strange, almost perfectly circular geological structure. It covers a…

To experience Paperlike 2.1 for yourself head to https://paperlike.com/nevertoosmall Set in Tokyo’s Suginami-ku neighbourhood, home to many manga artists, Open Sky House is home to artists and architect Zajirogh, his wife, and their three children. Having always dreamed of living in a camper or a…