Gustavo Viselner, pixel artist.
Fiona Russell Powell was a major feature writer for The Face magazine in the ’80s and ’90s. She was also a member of the group ABC.
“Potentially deadly bomb ingredients are ‘frequently bought together’ on Amazon”?
Anatomy of a Moral Panic.
But as a few more minutes of clicking would have shown, the only thing Channel 4 has discovered is a hobbyist community of people who mill their own black powder at home, safely and legally, for use in fireworks, model rockets, antique firearms, or to blow up the occasional stump.
The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics.
New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called “octonions.”
The CSSrlton Dance.
Die Tiefseeforscherin Antje Boetius beschäftigt sich mit den Meeren und dem Klimawandel. Nun erhält sie dafür den Deutschen Umweltpreis.
The self-driving car that will never arrive.
(…) there’s one surefire shortcut to getting self-driving cars on the streets sooner: persuade pedestrians to behave less erratically. If they use crosswalks, where there are contextual clues—pavement markings and stop lights—the software is more likely to identify them.
Molly Ringwald: What About “The Breakfast Club”?
Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo.
How not to regret the things you will build.
As technologists, it’s only natural that we spend most of our time focusing on how our tech will change the world for the better. Which is great. Everyone loves a sunny disposition. But perhaps it’s more useful, in some ways, to consider the glass half empty.