A scrapbook Published inThe Message · 5 min read· Jun 30, 2014 -- After the Battery Park Seawall Extension was completed, Jordaine Sells found herself without a job. Then a friend told her about a new company in Long Island that specializes in wine cellar reinforcement and flood-proofing. Intrigued,…

Earlier this year I worked with cycling club Audax Australia to capture a tilt-shift time-lapse of their event the Alpine Classic. Starting in the town of Bright 2,200 cyclists tackled several different courses of up to 250km which included ascents of Mount Buffalo, Mount Hotham, Falls Creek and…

I bet you guys I can name every film used in this video...because I made it. It's not that impressive of an achievement actually. So, here are the films used in this table flipping montage: 00:05 - Angel's In The Outfield (1994) 00:12 - A Clockwork Orange (1971) 00:13 - Bill & Ted's Excellent…

A bogus SoundCloud takedown reveals a much larger issue with private sites and the public domain. 5 min read· Jun 24, 2014 -- I received a bogus copyright takedown notice for using public domain audio on SoundCloud yesterday. The sound in question—the famous “Houston, we have a problem” snippet of…

Mike Dash; Updated by Meilan Solly Around 7 p.m. on the warm evening of November 30, 1948, jeweler John Bain Lyons and his wife went for a stroll on Somerton Beach, a seaside resort a few miles south of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. As the pair walked toward the suburb of Glenelg, they…

In Hikaru Muratas Traum von einem anderen Leben spielt ein Anzug eine besondere Rolle. Es ist ein Einreiher, der einzige Anzug, den Hikaru besitzt, er hängt über dem Bett seiner 30-Quadratmeter-Wohnbox, der Boden bedeckt mit leeren Fertignudelbechern, die Wände kaum dicker als Papier. An einem…

Needle drugs seldom make a city look pretty, but some cities are more disfigured by them than others. In 2006, when I first visited Tbilisi, Georgia, it had all the wrecked majesty of an ex-beauty queen with six years of track-marks down her arms. It was a great European capital in decay: crumbling…

PDF: We made a fancy PDF of this post for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview.) ___________ Everyone feels something when they’re in a really good starry place on a really good starry night and they look up and see this: Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck…

Japanese cheerleaders asking you to take your garbage with you. Yurtec Stadium Sendai, Home of the Vegalta Sendai J-League professional soccer team. I will begin this post about Japanese garbage, trash, and litter with a soccer story. It was the 1998 World Cup in France. The Japanese national soccer…

For us to live, parts of us must die. Every day, billions of our cells shrink, break up into small parcels, and get tidied away by other janitorial cells. This gentle, organised cellular suicide is called apoptosis, and we depend upon it. Our hands start off as solid lumps; it’s apoptosis that…

What It’s Like to Fail Priceonomics Editor’s note: The following is the personal story of David Raether, a former comedy writer for the sitcom Roseanne who later became homeless. It is adapted from his memoir, “Tell Me Something, She Said.” On Christmas Day, 2001, I sat down at my Yamaha G2 grand…

On supporting science journalism If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today. Editor’s Note: Lewis…

The author and his wife on vacation one month before her passing. The photo was taken by their son.Photo: Courtesy of Peter Bach The streetlights in Buenos Aires are considerably dimmer than they are in New York, one of the many things I learned during my family’s six-month stay in Argentina. The…

Future versions of the open-source Firefox browser will include closed-source digital rights management (DRM) from Adobe, the Mozilla project’s chief technology officer, Andreas Gal, announced on Wednesday. The purpose is to support commercial video streams. But this is a radical, disheartening…

How extreme isolation warps the mind 14 May 2014 Michael BondFeatures correspondent (Getty Images) When people are isolated from human contact, their mind can do some truly bizarre things, says Michael Bond. Why does this happen? Sarah Shourd’s mind began to slip after about two months into her…

“¿Huayhuash?¿¡Huayhuash con bici’s!? No. No noooo… Es imposible.” In the winter of 2014, three friends set out on a self supported ride, looking for nothing more than a truly genuine experience. The goal: to circumnavigate one of the most wonderful and wicked mountain ranges in the world – the…

The 12 basic principles of animation were developed by the 'old men' of Walt Disney Studios, amongst them Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, during the 1930s. Of course they weren't old men at the time, but young men who were at the forefront of exciting discoveries that were contributing to the…

This is a story that’s in equal parts sad, strange and beautiful. A couple of years ago I got invited to a showing of a film about music in Japan called KanZeOn; I think it was FACT’s Laurent Fintoni, a long time lover of Japanese music and culture, who put me on to it originally. It turned out to…

It's 2150 There are all sorts of Aliens living throughout space. Johnny is a Space Delivery Man who travels to different planets to deliver packages. Johnny is lazy and his only desire is to sleep in his autopilot spaceship. when the spaceship arrives at the destination, all he has to do is simply…

The Old Testament is full of examples of chiasmus, which is a figure of speech used in ancient times to emphasize balance. It lists a bunch of ideas or things and then repeats each of them in reverse order. It’s often not an identical repetition. It frequently uses the opposite of what came before…

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A Soviet era hammer and sickle symbol at the top of a building in the town of Pripyat the abandoned town which was built to house workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Pripyat, Ukraine... A Soviet era hammer and sickle symbol at the top of a building in the town of Pripyat the abandoned town…

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What Michael Did How does a family cope when one member — in the midst of a psychotic episode — kills another? Above: Michael Stewart was charged with second-degree murder 12 years ago and found not criminally responsible. He lives in an apartment near the Brockville Mental Health Centre and must…

A Reporter at Large Auto Correct November 17, 2013 The Google car knows every turn. It never gets drowsy or distracted, or wonders who has the right-of-way.Illustration by Harry Campbell Human beings make terrible drivers. They talk on the phone and run red lights, signal to the left and turn to the…

Nur selten öffnet Frau C. eine breite braune Schachtel und zieht daraus Papier, eine Karte vielleicht, einen Brief, Liebe Mama, ich höhre gerade Paulo Conte Puramando di saprei. Düdüdüdüdüüüü. Bye, Lea. Lea hat einen IQ von 142. Lea ist jetzt 36. Liebe Mama, ich liege gerade im Bett und höhre…

Alle ausblenden Sie haben 1 neue Nachricht Razinger fordert sie zum Quizduell. Breaking News! Illustrationen: Black Yard Sie haben 243 neue Nachrichten Wann werden wir uns an die ständige Erreichbarkeit gewöhnt haben? Von Philipp Loser, Michael Rockenbach und David Bauer 6. Dezember 2013 In Zeiten…

We Will Live Again looks at the unusual and extraordinary operations of the Cryonics Institute. Follow Ben Best and Andy Zawacki as they maintain the ninety-nine deceased human bodies stored at below-freezing temperatures in cryopreservation. Meanwhile, cryonics movement founder Robert Ettinger,…

There’s a joke attributed to Winston Churchill in which he allegedly asked a young socialite: Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for 5 million pounds? Socialite: My goodness … well, I suppose. Churchill: Would you sleep with me for 5 pounds? Socialite: What type of woman do you think I am?…

Nine years ago, I was sitting in a college math physics course and my professor spelt out an idea that kind of blew my mind. I think it isn’t a stretch to say that this is one of the most widely applicable mathematical discoveries, with applications ranging from optics to quantum physics, radio…

Bob Swartz: Losing Aaron After his son was arrested for downloading files at MIT, Bob Swartz did everything in his power to save him. He couldn’t. Now he wants the institute to own up to its part in Aaron’s death. By Janelle Nanos· 1/2/2014, 9:00 a.m. Get a compelling long read and must-have…

 Eine Schrotflinte in der Wohnküche, geladen, eine Winchester im Ehebett, geladen. Unser Nachbar!, sagt Jakob. Unser Albtraum!, sagt sie VON ERWIN KOCH (TEXT) UND KURT REICHENBACH (FOTO) Er trat in die Küche, steckte das Handy ein, verließ das alte niedrige Haus, es war kühl, längst hell, G. sah…