Which Face Is Real? Learn to spot fake faces at a glance.
Relevant: blog.p3k.org.
Are you looking, Fairphone?
Shift Phones (via taz.de).
The End Of Empathy.
Americans these days seem to be losing their appetite for empathy, especially the walk-a-mile-in-someone's-shoes Easter Sunday morning kind.
Relevant: Tech is “downgrading” humanity — but we can fix it.
From the surrealist acts dept.
Farmed animals have personalities, smarts, even a sense of agency. Why then do we saddle them with lives of utter despair?
Relevant: If reason exists without deliberation, it cannot be uniquely human.
The greatest con women in herstory.
The Prussian Grifter Who Swindled Her Way to Her Own One-Woman Show.
Bertha Heyman lived a life in and out of jail and on and off the stage.
12 Bilder zeigen, wie Frauen mit Brustkrebs leben.
Wenn der Brustkrebs Metastasen streut: Drei junge Frauen erzählen vom ihrem Leben mit metastasierendem Brustkrebs, von ihren Ängsten und Hoffnungen.
Foxes and hedgefundshogs.
The Peculiar Blindness of Experts (via futurism.com).
One study compiled a decade of annual dollar-to-euro exchange-rate predictions made by 22 international banks: Barclays, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and others. Each year, every bank predicted the end-of-year exchange rate. The banks missed every single change of direction in the exchange rate. In six of the 10 years, the true exchange rate fell outside the entire range of all 22 bank forecasts.
Enhancements ahead!
Spoiler alert: does knowing how it ends make fiction more fun?
Die Kasseler Liste is a growing database that presently comprises 125,000 data sets. It documents the global scale of censorship. Book bans persist across the world, on all continents, with varying reach and intensity, depending on political and social contexts.
»A Bauchschüssle muschte hawe.«
Vor 100 Jahren schlugen Soldaten und rechtsextreme Freikorps die Münchner Räterepublik nieder. Besonders brutal ging die württembergische Brigade vor. Das zeigt der Mord an Gustav Landauer, dem das Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe nun eine kleine Ausstellung widmet.