If You Are Still Calling AI Artificial Intelligence, You Are Wrong.

AI won't do us harm alone. It's the humans behind, whose intentions might.

Relevant: Are you as smart as a toddler?

Enemy of the stoat – New Zealand’s double-edged attitude towards wildlife.

Unlike most countries, where the public may be squeamish about exterminating unwanted fuzzies, New Zealand (…) “has some very good, clear distinctions: if it’s got fur, it’s not meant to be here. There’s an interesting thing in the New Zealand psyche – the demonisation of our pest species. If you’re driving in many parts of the country you’ll commonly see possums dead on the road. People aim for them.”

The UX of LEGO Interface Panels.

These iconic, low-resolution designs are the perfect tool to learn the basics of physical interface design. Armed with 52 different bricks, let’s see what they can teach us about the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.

Breaking trust: Shades of crisis across an insecure software supply chain.

Unlike a physical system that is little modified once it has left the factory, software is subject to continual revision through updates and patches. This makes the supply for code long and subject to myriad flaws, both unintentional and malicious.

Sexual dinosaurs: The charge of ‘feminist bias’ is used to besmirch anyone who questions sexist assumptions at work in neuroscience

A few years ago, a friend heard a speaker at an academic conference make a disparaging reference to a new book that, supposedly, denied that there were any sex differences between men’s and women’s brains and behaviour. The author of the dreadful tome – ‘this woman from Melbourne’ – turned out to be me. Afterwards, my friend asked the speaker if he’d actually read my book. He hadn’t.

The Invention of “Sesame Street”.

Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

How tools are shaping our society, pt. 123.

Scientists had to rename genes because they confused Microsoft Excel.

The genes "MARCH1" and "SEPT1," for instance, kept getting auto-formatted by Excel.

100 Jahre Frauen an Kunstakademien: Eine Hommage an Künstlerinnen.

Das Bauhaus war zwar mit der Zulassung von Frauen etwas früher dran als die meisten anderen Kunsthochschulen, allerdings doch nur halbherzig und für die Fächer, die sie für Frauen als sinnvoll erachteten, wie eben die Weberei.

Relevant: 100womenartists.com.

May I suggest they should remain anchored for good.

The ritualised excess of life aboard a cruise ship is tragic and parodic by turns.

A deadpan glimpse of life aboard a cruise ship, where rituals of excess and organised fun have built a $45 billion industry.

Rediscovering the Small Web.

Most websites today are built like commercial products by professionals and marketers, optimised to draw the largest audience, generate engagement and 'convert'. But there is also a smaller, less-visible web designed by regular people to simpRediscovering the Small Web - Neustadt.frly to share their interests and hobbies with the world. A web that is unpolished, often quirky but often also fun, creative and interesting.