Wer Hedy Lamarr sagt, muss auch Eva May sagen.
Die hochtalentierte, aber launenhafte Eva May überwarf sich mehrmals mit ihren Eltern. Sie war die Verlobte von Rudolf Sieber, bis dieser seine zukünftige Frau Marlene Dietrich kennenlernte. Daraufhin versuchte Eva May sich im Jahr 1923 das Leben zu nehmen, indem sie sich die Pulsadern öffnete. Nachdem sie sich vergeblich bemüht hatte, ihren Vetter, den Patronenfabrikanten Fritz Mandl – der später mit Hedy Lamarr eine andere Schauspielerin heiratete – zu heiraten, erschoss sie sich. Nach ihrem Tod drehte ihre Mutter Mia May keinen Film mehr. (Via freitod.antville.org.)
Scientists, Stop Thinking Explaining Science Will Fix Things. It Won’t.
Don’t just keep explaining why climate change is real—explain how climate change will hurt public health or the local economy. Communication that appeals to values, not just intellect, research shows, can be far more effective.
Relevant: Our Climate Future Is Actually Our Climate Present.
Quantum cryptography is unbreakable. So is human ingenuity.
Moby is an open framework created by Docker to assemble specialized container systems without reinventing the wheel. It provides a “lego set” of dozens of standard components and a framework for assembling them into custom platforms (via stackshare.io).
Relevant: Wait – we can explain, says Moby, er, Docker amid rebrand meltdown.
The eerie otherworldliness of slow undersea life sped up to a human pace.
Corals, and the echinoderms and funguses that frequently inhabit them, are characterised by their brilliant colours and slow, creeping movements. Set to a pulsing original score by Maurizio Morganti, Meanwhile... speeds up this undersea ecosystem to something resembling a human pace. The result is uncanny, making these familiar lifeforms appear as if born of another planet.
Fascinating.
Pink Trombone – Interactive articulatory speech synthesizer.
Are human rights anything more than legal conventions?
The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI.
No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem.
Stop swooning over Justin Trudeau. The man is a disaster for the planet. (Via getpocket.com.)
He’s hard at work pushing for new pipelines through Canada and the US to carry yet more oil out of Alberta’s tar sands, which is one of the greatest climate disasters on the planet.
Their nation, in numbers. USAFacts provides a comprehensive, nonpartisan view of the state of their union.
Relevant: Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove.
Want to know how many police officers are employed in various parts of the country and compare that against crime rates? Want to know how much revenue is brought in from parking tickets and the cost to collect? Want to know what percentage of Americans suffer from diagnosed depression and how much the government spends on it? That’s in there. You can slice the numbers in all sorts of ways.