Ausstellung zu Polizei und Holocaust: Freund, Helfer, Massenmörder.
Hans Hösl. Der Münchner, Jahrgang 1896, unterrichtete Strafrecht an der Polizeischule Fürstenfeldbruck. Im Krieg befehligte er das SS-Polizei-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 18, eine Einheit, die in Griechenland ganze Dörfer ausradierte und 1944 entscheidenden Anteil an der Deportation von 1.700 Athener Juden nach Auschwitz hatten. Nach dem Krieg setzte Hösl seine Polizeikarriere nahtlos fort, war sogar wieder im Schuldienst tätig. (…) Angesehen und friedlich starb der Mörder 1987.
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.