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.
As long as the fish are ok…
Informing Businesses About the Risks of Forced Labor, Human Trafficking, and Hazardous Child Labor in Fisheries (via npr.org).
Does Depression Have an Evolutionary Purpose?
Even if depression evolved as a useful tool over the eons, that doesn’t make it useful today.
Why hiring the ‘best’ people produces the least creative results.
“(…) If you want to explore things you haven’t explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.”
The Star Wars posters of Soviet Europe.
Behind the Iron Curtain, artists created strikingly trippy ads for the saga (…)
Something about the way all these cliches come together, and that now is the time they have done so, really sets this apart from everything else in the scene right now. What a ridiculous surprise.