Screening Surveillance is a short film series that uses near future fiction storytelling based on research to highlight potential social and privacy issues that arise as a result of big data surveillance.
The Enduring Myth of ‘Complicated’ Female Sexuality.
Research is questioning the notion that the sexual desire of women and men is inherently different.
Relevant: The idea that sperm race to the egg is just another macho myth.
Your chance, Europe!
The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: an Open Web Index (via news.ycombinator.com).
A proposal for building an index of the Web that separates the infrastructure part of the search engine – the index – from the services part that will form the basis for myriad search engines and other services utilizing Web data on top of a public infrastructure open to everyone.
A hand picked list of the very best vaporwave albums.
The book the above illustration is an excerpt from (“The Measure of Man and Woman”) is currently at ~70 €; another book mentioned in the article, “Wayshowing>Wayfinding: Basic & Interactive” is “available” for more than 250 €. Go figure?
Days since a 🚗/🚌 killed a🚶/🚴/🛴 in DC.
Designing type: a HackWeek diary.
Rebuilding a font in 5 days from a technical perspective.
Like Last Year's Snow – Inside Siberia’s isolated community of forgotten women.
In the remote village of Yar-Sale in Northern Siberia, live a group of elderly women. They were once part of a nomadic community of reindeer herders. However, in their old age, they spend most of their days in seclusion, away from nature and their community.
Muhammad: an anticlerical hero of the European Enlightenment.
(…) step back and examine the diverse and often surprising Western portraits of the myriad faces of Muhammad.
Music from Barry Season 2.