The best way to predict the future, if you will, is to be a dude whose words get picked up by the news.
The scroll of shame.
Wealth, shown to scale.
By inconveniencing just 400 people, the entire human race could advance to a new, unprecedented level of development. And all of them would still be billionaires afterwards.
The Browser Engine That Could.
Descendants of KHTML, browsers backed by engines in the Blink / Webkit family, account for over 90% of browser use. From practical oblivion to 90% market share in fifteen years. An enormous achievement. And one that is not without consequences.
L.A.'s Insects Are Hairy, Iridescent, and Crazy Photogenic.
The images are a reminder to anyone wandering Los Angeles that the sky and ground are teeming with little bits of wonder, and that their backyards may be full of creatures that aren’t yet known to science.
Like the 640k RAM thing attributed to Bill Gates, the five computers quote seems to be a fabrication from a later age, invented to teach us a lesson about the futility of grand predictions. It’s a shame, though, because the five computers prediction looks like it may come true very soon.
Fish are nothing like us, except that they are sentient beings.
We mustn’t deny that when we see the gasping gills of an expiring fish on a dock, there was something it was like to be that fish: that it was sentient, and it could feel pain, and it did suffer.
Biases, biases.
How STRANGE are your study animals?
A new framework for animal-behaviour research will help to avoid sampling bias — ten years on from the call to widen the pool of human participants in psychology studies beyond the WEIRD.
GDocs is the new Geocities.
A Collective Booklet for Computational Womxn.
Relevant: “We discovered writer/digital innovator Carly Ayres by way of her homepage—an editable Google Doc made long before such sites became the design trend du jour.”
The New York Times got a new kind of logic puzzle: Vertex.