Spoiler: mostly nothing.
What Really Happens When You Don't Turn Off Your Cell Phone on a Plane?
Aeon.co
(Currently, my favorite newsletter.)
- Moral luck: Two people drive drunk at night: one kills a pedestrian, one doesn't. Does the unlucky killer deserve more blame or not?
- Now you see it, now you… Seeing things that are hidden; failing to see things in plain sight. How magic exploits the everyday weirdness of perception.
- Bun or bump? Does the mother contain the foetus or is it a part of her? On the metaphysics of pregnancy, and its ethical implications.
- Fatal nurture: what a rare disorder says about ‘bad mothers’.
Thank You, Open source (via t3n.de).
Internetkultur-Dilemma: Warum Deutschland kein Digitalisierungs-Gewinner wird.
Zwar reden alle von der Digitalisierung, aber viel zu wenige verstehen, wovon sie da sprechen. Über hunderte von Gesprächen hat sich bei mir der Eindruck erhärtet, dass das Internet hierzulande von vielen lediglich theoretisch begriffen wird — als eine technokratisch zu lösende Herausforderung. Oftmals sind es denn auch Bürokraten, die uns digital wettbewerbsfähig machen wollen.
Perhaps ideal for the ORF.at grid, too?
Fitty scales up (or down) text so it fits perfectly to its parent container. Ideal for flexible and responsive websites. (Via t3n.de.)
Infographic: 101 Fascinating Facts About Domain Names (via t3n.de).
Technology Is Biased Too. How Do We Fix It?
(…) when you examine the types of mistakes the system made, black defendants were almost twice as likely to be mislabeled as likely to reoffend — and potentially treated more harshly by the criminal justice system as a result.
Hedy and Alexa.
The butterfly effect: How a derailed banking career in 19th century Vienna led to the mass online ordering of dollhouses in January.
Life in plastic, it's fantastic!
There's Another Huge Plastic Garbage Patch in The Pacific Ocean.