What Vicki could never have known was that her surgery would turn her into an accidental superstar of neuroscience. She is one of fewer than a dozen ‘split-brain’ patients, whose brains and behaviours have been subject to countless hours of experiments, hundreds of scientific papers, and…

For the last two months, you’ve seen some version of the same story all over the Internet: Delete your search history before Google’s new privacy settings take effect. A straightforward piece outlining a rudimentary technique, but also evidence that the search titan has a serious trust problem on…

Forget Your Past Buzludzha, Bulgaria Meanwhile… in Bulgaria January 2012 .. Over the years I’ve visited my fair share of abandoned buildings. They’ve always held a very strong attraction for me. Somehow, their silent decaying facades offer the perfect blank canvas for an introverted imagination like…

We can't keep our own fitness promises for the same reason that addicts are addicts and Congress can't pass deficit reduction Zurijeta /Shutterstock Every January, millions of Americans, brimming with optimism and a little extra belly from the holidays, commemorate the new year by making an…

Nothing but history's most interesting letters. By Shaun Usher By subscribing, you agree Substack's Terms of Use, and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy. “Letters of Note author Shaun Usher publishes funny, touching, eye-opening, and abundantly shareable letters from…

The girl at the table opposite me is doing something very strange with her sandwich. She has cut it into exact quarters and is slowly, gingerly dissecting each one as if it were a bomb about to go off, removing the bread, wiping off the mayonnaise with a paper towel, piling the meat and lettuce into…

222267 5098144 Debatte um die Netzneutralität: Wer schraubt am Internet? Die europäischen Netzaufsichtsbehörden wollten wissen, wer wann in die Transportleitungen des Internets eingreift. Die Antworten, die sie bekamen, haben es in sich. 18.3.2012 15:35 Uhr Diesen Artikel teilen Um die sogenannte…

Ich war eingeladen zur Breitband Sendung des Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Wir sprachen (unter anderem) über “Digitale Souveränität”. Die ganze Folge kann man hier nachhören: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/jugendschutz-in-social-media-die-plaene-der-plattform-discord-100.html Kurze Zusammenfassung…

von Nick Lüthi 09.02.2012 Im Selbstbedienungsladen Die Schaffhauser Nachrichten drucken einen Blogbeitrag ab, ohne dafür die Autorin um Erlaubnis gebeten zu haben. Skandal! schallt es durchs Netz, umso mehr, weil sich Verleger und Chefredaktor Norbert Neininger für den besseren Schutz des geistigen…

G Gunter 21.08.2012, 08:19 Uhr Das klingt ja wie Faschismus ! Erschreckend in einer Demokratie. N Nick 25.04.2012, 19:45 Uhr Ich frage mich: In was für einem Staat leben wir hier? Zu welcher Zeit? Ist Hitler noch regierend und Homosexualität und Transsexualität ist ne "Krankheit" ?! Deutschland,…

Profiles The Apostate February 6, 2011 Asked how high he got in Scientology’s levels of study, Haggis said, “All the way to the top.”Photograph by Mary Ellen Mark On August 19, 2009, Tommy Davis, the chief spokesperson for the Church of Scientology International, received a letter from the film…

Ein Deutscher verzehrt heute pro Jahr und Kopf 88,7 Kilo Fleisch und Fisch - das muss sich ändern. Nicht nur der Schweine zuliebe. (Foto: Foto: dpa) Mit der Entdeckung des Garens von Nahrung, mit Ackerbau und Viehzucht haben wir uns aus unserer Machtlosigkeit gegenüber der Natur befreit. Die…

Google Maps: Designing the Modern Atlas By - January 9, 2012 in Case Study | UX It is often the case in interaction design that the best solutions simply get out of the way, allowing the user to achieve their goal and get on with their life. With Google Maps, this is certainly the desired outcome.…

Preoccupations David Ferrucci led the team behind Watson, the victorious “Jeopardy” computer. “For the scientist in me,” he says, “it was an irresistible challenge.”.Credit...Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times THE assignment was one of the biggest challenges in the field of artificial intelligence:…

Der nachfolgende Post war eigentlich als Kommentar zu diesem Blogbeitrag gedacht, ist aber während des Tippens zu dem „Warum mach ich den genderpopender-Scheiß eigentlich“- Text geworden, den zu schreiben ich seit Monaten prokrastiniert habe. Er dreht sich größtenteils um die Piraten, ist aber auch…

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Einzellige Organismen, die vor über einer halben Milliarde Jahre gelebt haben und deren Fossilien in China gefunden wurden, sind die unmittelbaren Vorläufer der frühesten Tiere. Die amöbenartigen Einzeller haben sich in einer Weise in zwei, vier, acht usw. Zellen geteilt, wie es heute tierische (und…

Only recently have scientists accorded chimpanzees, so closely related to humans we can share blood transfusions, the dignity of having a mind. But now, increasingly, researchers who study octopuses are convinced that these boneless, alien animals—creatures whose ancestors diverged from the lineage…

Jonas and Wyatt Maines were born identical twins, but from the start each had a distinct personality. Jonas was all boy. He loved Spiderman, action figures, pirates, and swords. Wyatt favored pink tutus and beads. At 4, he insisted on a Barbie birthday cake and had a thing for mermaids. On…

18 November 2011 Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi Linda P.B. Katehi, I am a junior faculty member at UC Davis. I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, and I teach in the Program in Critical Theory and in Science & Technology Studies. I have a strong record of research,…

March 2026 issue The quest for supersilk Science The quest to engineer a silk that’s stronger than steel It already exists in the natural world. Now, thanks to breakthroughs in genetic engineering, scientists have created “supersilk.” And it’s poised to upgrade far more than our clothing. Why did…

Newsstands everywhere today groan under the load of magazines devoted to the Internet and the Web. Just telling them apart from one another is tough — a search engine might help. These publications’ names seem to have been generated by an artificial-intelligence device programmed to provide every…

Jet lag is a funny thing. It plays tricks on the mind. For instance, right now I could swear that I'm crammed into a tiny karaoke room on an upper floor of a building somewhere in Tokyo. The narrow ta

Gotham In the aftermath of the Occupy Wall Street eviction from Zuccotti Park, a mayoral aide e-mailed reporters. The aide, Stu Loeser, said that he had heard of journalists “supposedly” wearing police press badges who “allegedly encountered problems on the streets of New York.” As I sling nouns and…

Last updated on 25. desember 2017 Merk: Denne teksten er mer enn ett år gammel. Jeg kan ikke garantere at alt som står her fremdeles er riktig eller det jeg mener. Les likevel og skriv en kommentar om du lurer på noe! English: Old post, might be outdated. Update, December 2014: Even though many of…

In 2002, Google began scanning the world’s 130 million or so books in preparation for the “secret ‘books’ project” that eventually became Google Books. In 2004, they began offering access to these scans, displaying the irritatingly-named “snippets” of books in their search results. And in no time at…

After three years of intermittent work, several rounds of shopping and a great many rounds of battery recharging, my One Frame Movie series came to an end last Sunday with what I feel to be one of my

by Danny Gold The word “hated” adorns Hunter Moore’s social-media bios. He has drawn the ire of the music industry, young people from all over the United States (as well as Canada, England and Australia), of privacy defenders — and, well, of many, many other people who happen to come across his…

News! This week, I started writing Codeword, a new weekly column for Wired.com. I’m covering a mix of data journalism, Internet culture, indie gaming, or whatever else I find interesting — the same kind of thing I’ve written here for almost a decade. As part of the arrangement, I retain joint…

DESIGN This crypto ring certifies your digital self with real-life handshakes Is the Quartz ring an ingenious security solution or a dark vision of the future? DESIGN Mattel has a new custom font, and it’s full of playful hidden details For the first time in 80 years, the toymaker has a new brand…

echocam, artvamp.com, 2000 Maybe half of being a camgirl was talking about being a camgirl – not just turning a webcam on yourself and by extension your life, but documenting how your life changed from having turned a webcam on it. We were only doing this for a little while, from sometime in the…

Some people have a legitimate reason to feel depressed, but not me. I just woke up one day feeling sad and helpless for absolutely no reason. It's disappointing to feel sad for no reason. Sadness can be almost pleasantly indulgent when you have a way to justify it - you can listen to sad music and…