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.
Found: Glass Fallout From the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima.
The particles have covered nearby beaches, unnoticed, for nearly 75 years.
Back to Basics: Decentralization and Society.
The web was supposed to be a decentralized and secure tool that would enable us to build a better world. (…) People realised that an easy way to create value on top of this neutral fabric was to build centralised services which gather, trap, and monetise information.
Gesetzgebung in der Blackbox: Wie demokratisch ist die EU?
Wir werden zwar Ende Mai ein neues EU-Parlament wählen. Aber damit entscheiden wir, die Wahlbürger der Union, keineswegs, wer die EU-Kommission führen wird. Darüber bestimmen zuallererst die Regierungschefs der EU-Mitgliedsländer.
The Library of Missing Datasets.
An ongoing physical repository of things that have been excluded in a society where so much is collected.
New Survey by the Claims Conference Finds Critical Gaps in Holocaust Knowledge in Austria.
More than One-Third Feel National Socialism Could Come to Power Again, and the Majority Polled Did Not Know Six Million Jews Killed During the Holocaust.
Evolutionary psychologists theorize that women evolved to like pink because it helped them find and pick berries in the wild. Which piece of evidence best supports this theory?
(…) what if a designer’s ‘choice’ is really just the human brain recognising the superior fit or robustness of a cultural element? Does the cultural sphere – once it has been created, with an appropriate amount of complexity – have human agency on a leash?