Hiking the Grand Canyon: 800 Miles of Magic and Misery.
Follow two men on their epic, end-to-end hike of the Grand Canyon—something only a handful of people have accomplished.
One of the most wondrous markers of the end of the day is a murmuration of starlings.
Is ‘grassroots’ citizen science a front for big business?
One example is PatientsLikeMe, where patients targeted via advocacy groups upload details about their experience of illness and treatment, which is then sold on to pharmaceutical companies to provide alternative data to conventional clinical trials.
The Sentience Quotient.
The lowest SQ possible would have just one neuron with the mass of the whole universe (1052 kg) and require a time equal to the age of the universe (1018 seconds) to process just one bit, giving a minimum SQ of −70.
The Root of All Cruelty?
The sadism of treating human beings like vermin lies precisely in the recognition that they are not.
F-Shaped Pattern of Reading on the Web: Misunderstood, But Still Relevant (Even on Mobile).
Eleven years after discovering the F-shaped reading pattern, we revisit what it means today.
Ice Apocalypse – Rapid collapse of Antarctic glaciers could flood coastal cities by the end of this century.
One year later*.
Probability I am going to leave the blue bird behind me, too:
▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░ 89%
— Year Progress (@year_progress) November 21, 2017
Ist mein Schal schon legal?
schal-legal.at ist ein Privatprojekt. Wenn Sie mir eine Freude machen wollen, können Sie mein Kinderbuch »Furzi Fisch« (…) bestellen.
Persistence of Vision III (via aeon.co).
By playfully reorganising parts of a single image of the cathedral’s façade, Sanz-Pena transforms the building’s solemn religious imagery into a flipbook-style sequence that has saints, bishops and other holy people dancing.