Meet the donors, patients, doctors and scientists involved in the complex global network of rare – and very rare – blood. By Penny Bailey. His doctor drove him over the border. It was quicker that way
When a handful of authors were caught reviewing their own papers, it exposed weaknesses in modern publishing systems. Editors are trying to plug the holes. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution Relevant articles Open Access articles citing this article. How many…
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Hebocon is a robot sumo-wrestling tournament for those who don't have the technical skills to actually make robots.
31 pseudo-robots that don't even move properly came together to go head to head.
The robots in this tournament are nothing like what their builders initially imagined them to be,…
He tried to high five her as the rocket took off. The mission director crackled over the radio, "You're go for launch," and he raised his hand, a hopeful smile hidden inside his helmet. She was looking at all of the buttons. They only had to push one to initiate the boosters, but her fingers were…
26. November 2014Aus Heft 47/2014Politik Damit sie zu frommen Muslimen bekehrt werden, werden jedes Jahr Hunderte Jugendliche nach Somalia entführt - von ihren eigenen Familien. Dies ist die erschütternde Geschichte von Amina. Amina am Strand von Berbera, der Stadt, in der sie im Sommer 2013…
UPDATE. I am living a nightmare before lunchtime. First, the sofa delivery people gave me a window of 7 AM to 7 PM, so I’m a prisoner in my own apartment. Second, worse, I am out of cat food, and in consequence my beloved companion Squee has, under the duress of feline starvation, started a brutal…
The Internet's biggest encyclopedia is a lot like other major sites on the Web: It's been a little hesitant to weigh in on net neutrality, the idea that all Web traffic should be treated equally by In
The First Amendment Area was a good 800 yards from the courthouse, an imposing cage of chicken-wire and dangling zip-cuffs. The people inside the First Amendment area were weird. I mean, I include myself in that group. After all, I vacuformed my own Guy Fawkes mask mold. That is not the action of a…
This essay is the first of a series of reports from The Nor, an investigation into paranoia, electromagnetism, and infrastructure. On the morning of Thursday, 30th October 2014, I set out to walk the perimeter of the London Congestion Charge Zone, a journey of some twelve miles around the centre of…
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Nikki, she’s got no flag to fly, but she…
At around 8:30am on the morning Dante Orpilla planned to pay back the woman who had saved his life, he made a phone call. Scenarios about the way things were about to play out had been running through his head all morning, but he kept the conversation short. “If we want to do this,” he said to the…
Programme website: http://ift.tt/1vuorSV Brian Cox visits NASA’s Space Power Facility in Ohio to see what happens when a bowling ball and a feather are dropped together under the conditions of outer space.
I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds The story of Tilde.Club Published inThe Message · 14 min read· Oct 9, 2014 -- Stevie Nicks This is the story of an accidental network of hundreds of people all (sort of) working toward a vague common goal on a ridiculous project that did not exist…
Digging through 316,669 tweets from three days of Twitter’s two-month-old trainwreck Published inThe Message · 8 min read· Oct 27, 2014 -- Two months ago today, actor Adam Baldwin was the first to use the #Gamergate hashtag on Twitter, solidifying a name for the movement that’s dominated all…
“Jesus,” Molly said, her own plate empty, “gimme that. You know what this costs?” She took his plate. “They gotta raise a whole animal for years and then they kill it. This isn’t vat stuff.” She forked a mouthful up and chewed.” – William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984) On Monday, August 5th, 2013, at a…
Background I spent last weekend at the always awesome FSCONS conference inGothenburg . Among many other things I heard rysiek’s talk “Blurry line between private service and publicinfrastructure” ( sl
Credit...Louie Chin Just how bad a mother am I? I wondered, as I watched my 13-year-old son deep in conversation with Siri. Gus has autism, and Siri, Apple’s “intelligent personal assistant” on the iPhone, is currently his BFF. Obsessed with weather formations, Gus had spent the hour parsing the…
I Hope Twitter Goes Away Thu, Oct 30, 2014 About seven months ago, I abruptly quit Twitter. Though I’d been thinking about it for a while, ultimately leaving was a snap decision for me. Lately I’ve been reflecting on why I hate Twitter so much. The obviously uniquely identifying feature of Twitter…
Introductory note: Mary Robinette Kowal’s novelette “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” was first published in 2012 as part of RIP-OFF , an original audiobook anthology from Audible.com. It was later publish
Drones And Everything After The flying, spying, killing machines that are turning humans into superheroes. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells Illustrations by Andrew Rae Recently, it has been getting harder to disappear on this planet. A surveilling drone began passing over the remote forests of northeastern…
ArchiveIn an excerpt from his new book, The Innovators, Walter Isaacson recounts the improbable story of the online encyclopedia that has proven its detractors wrong time and again. Walter Isaacson Published Oct. 19 2014 6:15AM EDT Steve Russell/Getty Images Walter Isaacson Got a tip? Send it to The…
David Levine This post is about word processors, but I got the idea for it from something W. H. Auden once said about political philosophers. In 1947, talking with his learned young secretary about an anthology he was compiling, The Portable Greek Reader, he mentioned Isocrates, a Greek orator whose…
Mark Macluskie, 16, who is no longer autistic.Credit...Mark Peckmezian for The New York Times At first, everything about L.'s baby boy seemed normal. He met every developmental milestone and delighted in every discovery. But at around 12 months, B. seemed to regress, and by age 2, he had fully…
Illustration by Perrin for BuzzFeed There was a cascade of input — triangles and sky and gravel sound and music on the radio and wind and the feeling of rough cloth near my hands. I could not make sense of it all; I did not know the small triangles were trees, the larger ones mountains, the sound…
On 27 August 1883, the Earth let out a noise louder than any it has made since. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . It was 10:02 AM local time when the sound emerged from the island of Krakatoa, which sits between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. It was heard 1,300 miles…
Michael Utley does not remember much about his death. Over the years, he has woven together a narrative of what happened using threads collected from witnesses, friends, and family. On May 8, 2000, Utley, a 48-year-old stockbroker, was golfing with his coworkers Dick Gill and Bill Todd, along with…
Collaborative browser-based tools aim to change the way researchers write and publish their papers. Credit: Illustration by the Project Twins When Fernando Cagua was preparing to write up his findings on the economics of whale-shark tourism, he didn't fire up Microsoft Word. He opened his web…
For some months, Amtrak was my home. It began simply somewhat unintentionally. A friend was getting married in Spokane, Washington, I was in New York, and the 45 day Amtrak pass was cheaper than rent. And so, I was on a train stopped in Washington DC. The station there is really magnificent, marbled…
We already know that if you use an online social network, you give up a serious slice of your privacy thanks to the omnivorous way companies like Google and Facebook gather your personal data. But new academic research offers a glimpse of what these companies may be learning about people who don't…
This week, the Washington Post's editorial board, in a widely circulated call for “compromise” on encryption, proposed that while our data should be off-limits to hackers and other bad actors, “perhaps Apple and Google could invent a kind of secure golden key” so that the good guys could get to it…
Screenshot aus dem Video (weiter im Text). Nächstes Jahr endet der Urheberschutz für „Mein Kampf“, was in der Vergangenheit immer wieder erschreckend vertrackte Diskussionen darüber ausgelöst hat, ob man das Buch dann noch weiter verbieten soll, oder ob es nicht besser sei, eine kommentierte Ausgabe…
Ist euch auch schon aufgefallen, dass die Temperatur sinkt, wenn die Sonne untergeht? Und seid ihr auch nicht zufrieden mit der Erklärung, dass das eben daran liegt, dass die Sonne untergegangen ist? Dann solltet ihr euch dringend mit Chemtrails befassen. Die Chemtrail-Bewegung ist ein kleine, aber…
Ello, goodbye. 26 Sep, 2014 Ello, it’s been brief but I’m leaving you for your own good. Ello — something’s missing from the about page It’s not just Paul’s face, there’s also no mention of FreshTracks Capital and the $435,000 in venture capital that Ello took from them. I’m disappointed. When Paul…
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