Die Sozialwissenschaftlerin Naika Foroutan fordert ein radikales Umdenken beim Thema Integration: Die nächste Regierung müsse sich dringend um alle kümmern, die Gefahr laufen, abgehängt zu werden. Sonst drohe eine dramatische Spaltung der Gesellschaft.
The tech industry’s gender problem isn’t just hurting women.
So you’re too ethical to eat meat; but should cows go extinct?
If we think, as I do, that being cultural is itself an adaptation, a natural feature of human beings, then we shouldn’t think that the ways in which we are cultural exempt us from nature, or that the products of our culture are themselves unnatural.
No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore.
Fashion trends are accelerating, new clothes are becoming as cheap as used ones, and poor countries are turning their backs on the secondhand trade. Without significant changes in the way that clothes are made and marketed, this could add up to an environmental disaster in the making.
Fanwood. Based on work of a famous Czech-American type designer of yesteryear.
Decoding the Design of In-Flight Seat Belts.
Why we buckle up differently in cars and planes.
How centralization is paralyzing society.
The dawn of blockchain technology is ushering in a new era of decentralization.
Scientists unveil new form of matter: time crystals.
If crystals have an atomic structure that repeats in space, like the carbon lattice of a diamond, why can’t crystals also have a structure that repeats in time?
Jenn Schiffer is a community engineer at Fog Creek Software, where she works on Glitch, a community for building apps. She is a pixel artist and tech satirist.
We met at the Fog Creek office, where we chatted about social problems in the developer community, online harassment of women, and Peter Thiel's fascination with the blood of the young.
The most important connection in any network is the local.
Networks regulate everything from ant colonies and middle schools to epidemics and the internet. Here’s how they work.