Am Tag, als sich Celestine Kpakou fertig macht, um in ihr altes Leben zurückzureisen, wirft sie einen schmuddeligen Koffer auf ihr Bett. Sieben Jahre hat sie auf diesen Tag gewartet, hat ihn herbeigefleht in ihren nächtlichen Gebeten, wenn sie wach lag, oder wenn sie Hunger hatte oder Sehnsucht nach…

I make no apologies now for what I am about to tell you. This is not one of my normal blogs filled with jokes, idiocy, and me being a tool. You may have as hard a time reading it as I did writing it… I worked within the mental health world for 7 years, between the ages of 20 to 27. I enjoyed the job…

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1 “Bigger Than Picasso” Paul van Hoeydonck poses with a replica of Fallen Astronaut in front of the Empire State Building in New York in 1971. Courtesy Paul van Hoeydonck/Waddell Gallery* One crisp March morning in 1969, artist Paul van Hoeydonck was visiting his Manhattan gallery when he stumbled…

After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? FERNnews 17 min read· Nov 20, 2013 -- A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no one had ever spoken of. I…

An anecdote: I wanted to wear Google Glass during the birth of our second child. My wife was extremely unreceptive to this idea when I suggested it. Angry, even. But as we got a bit closer to the date

Ein Schutzgebiet der Nichteinmischung" nannte William S. Burroughs 1955 in seinem einflussreichen Aufsatz International Zone die marokkanische Stadt Tanger. Schon 1956 änderte sich der spezielle Status der Stadt, und die Beat-Poeten, die von der Atmosphäre der Selbstverwaltung und Freiheit in der…

Sometime in the past few years, the blog died. In 2014, people will finally notice. Sure, blogs still exist, many of them are excellent, and they will go on existing and being excellent for many years to come. But the function of the blog, the nebulous informational task we all agreed the blog was…

Yesterday, we learned that the NSA is using Google cookies—the same cookies used for advertisements and search preferences—to track users for surveillance purposes. These Google cookies—known as “PREF” cookies—last two years and can uniquely identify you. Sniffing one off the Internet as it goes…

Halb elf am Abend. Es konnte losgehen. Ein halber Euro pro Spiel. Ein Dreier – verzehnfacht! Ein Zweier mit Propeller – verzwanzigfacht! Risikotaste? Ja oder nein? Sag schnell, Bert! Sag du, Matthias! Ja, tu’s! Rot oder Schwarz? Sag schnell! Zack und ja – verfünfzigfacht. 25 Euro verdient in sieben…

Früher fuhr die Tochter oft mit dem Fahrrad, das schafft sie heute nicht mehr. Sie nimmt das Auto. Sie ist jetzt 63 Jahre alt. Um 17 Uhr ist sie da, jeden Tag. Du hast mich ins Heim gesteckt. Mutter, das ist dein Zuhause. Ich bin im Heim. Mutter! Du hast deine eigene Mutter ins Heim gesteckt. Halt…

The first item I see in Amazon's Swansea warehouse is a package of dog nappies. The second is a massive pink plastic dildo. The warehouse is 800,000 square feet, or, in what is Amazon's standard unit of measurement, the size of 11 football pitches (its Dunfermline warehouse, the UK's largest, is 14…

Abo testen Danke, dass Sie DIE ZEIT nutzen. Melden Sie sich jetzt mit Ihrem bestehenden Account an oder testen Sie unser digitales Abo mit Zugang zu allen Artikeln. Abo testen Anmelden Erscheinungsbild Verbrechensaufklärung: Herr Hilber und der Bär Ein Mann gilt als vermisst, ein Bär findet seine…

“Oh no!” said the email that went round the EFF office on Friday. Could it be true that the Beastie Boys had unleashed the legal hounds to shut down a parody ad that uses the group's classic misogynistic ditty, “Girls”? Surely not. As remix pioneers, the Beastie Boys are the veterans of many legal…

Ende August, Basler Viaduktstrasse: Peter York* hat sich zum fünften Hochzeitstag mit seiner Frau zum Essen verabredet und fährt mit seinem Velo Richtung Markthalle. Als er eine Polizeikontrolle erblickt, macht er kehrt: sein Velo (ein so genanntes Fixie) hat keine Bremsen. Er will eine Busse…

On June 13th, 2013, the AeroVelo Atlas Human-Powered Helicopter captured the long standing AHS Sikorsky Prize with a flight lasting 64.1 seconds and reaching an altitude of 3.3 metres. Visit www.aerovelo.com for more details. The competition was initially opened in 1980, and over the course of the…

It's the final day of Banger Week! Gav and Dan blow up paint tins in what easily is the messiest and bloodiest episode ever. Follow Gav on Twitter - https://twitter.com/GavinFree Follow Dan on Twitter - https://twitter.com/DanielGruchy Don't try this at home! Day 5 - Giant Paint Explosion - The Slow…

Aber er macht keine Pläne mehr für die nächsten fünf oder zehn Jahre. Seinen Wunsch, vielleicht noch einmal in China zu leben und dort zu arbeiten, hat er aufgegeben. Vor ein paar Monaten wollte er ein Haus kaufen, das aussah wie eine Pagode, „ein architektonisches Wunderwerk“. Den Kredit hatte er…

Secure the March issue featuring Cillian MurphySUBSCRIBE NOW Culture In Athens With Michael Shannon, the Night He (Sort of) Reunited R.E.M. Forty years after R.E.M. released their classic debut album,

The Enlightenment sages who wrote the First Amendment into the US Constitution in 1791 created the most secure legal foundation for a real democracy in history thus far. By refusing to grant government the power to shut anyone up, no matter how obnoxious, the authors of the Bill of Rights ensured…

Quinn Norton Quinn Norton 21 min read· Aug 20, 2013 -- (5-21-14, author’s note: This was written and published before Chelsea Manning announced her transition. I respect her decision, and have properly gendered her in all my writing/speaking since. This article remains as it was published, but as a…

How internet abuse works: she displeases him and he tries to punish her. He posts doctored photos of her to the web. In one, a noose is near her head. In another, her children appear to be performing sex acts. He emails graphic threats about violating her with a chainsaw. He sneers that she is too…

A man in Waziristan, Pakistan, where US drones fly. At least 400 civilians have been killed in around 340 drone strikes in Pakistan ( Flickr / Omer Wazir ) The drone discussion has reached some kind of fever pitch in the West, turning the very word into a subject of debate (the industry prefers…

Aneisha Newell, playing with children Alona and Amod, uses fewer directives with her children since participating in the Thirty Million Words trial, instead asking open-ended questions that give them an opportunity to respond. Photo courtesy Kim Palmer/Hechinger Report Pediatric surgeon Dana Suskind…

Amid the urgent bustle of Kathmandu airport, you can see one of globalisation's most bitter sights. At the departure gate, hopeful parents bid tearful farewells to their garlanded sons as they join the hundreds of thousands of Nepalese heading overseas for work. At the other end of the terminal,…

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At an Army research facility, a soldier given a powerful mind-altering drug said, “I feel like my life is not worth a nickel here.” Colonel James S. Ketchum dreamed of war without killing. He joined the Army in 1956 and left it in 1976, and in that time he did not fight in Vietnam; he did not…

One day last month, the seven employees of Everpix gathered at their co-working space in San Francisco to discuss the company’s impending shutdown. Wayne Fan, one of the co-founders, opened a mock-up of the screen that the photo storage service’s customers would see once the company announced the…

Credit...Illustration by Paul Sahre Right in the center of South Park, a large, grassy oval near San Francisco’s financial district, there is a rinky-dink playground with slides, ladders and firefighter poles, all dented and dinged, connected by gritty brown pylons. Yet for many in Silicon Valley,…

Ai Aoyama is a sex and relationship counsellor who works out of her narrow three-storey home on a Tokyo back street. Her first name means "love" in Japanese, and is a keepsake from her earlier days as a professional dominatrix. Back then, about 15 years ago, she was Queen Ai, or Queen Love, and she…

The letter to Twitter, the US company preparing for a $15bn stock market flotation, sounded reasonable enough - if cheeky. "We would like to partner with you to engineer acceptable, non-intrusive advertising," said the blogpost from Adblock Plus. But the sentence’s continuation seemed to carry a…