From ‘Girls’ to ‘I Love Lucy’: How realistic are New York apartments on TV shows?
We break down the hovels, the dream pads and everything in between.
Invisible Manipulators of Your Mind.
Aspects of human societies that were formerly guided by habit and tradition, or spontaneity and whim, are now increasingly the intended or unintended consequences of decisions made on the basis of scientific theories of the human mind and human well-being.
A Neuroscientist explains the origins of emotions.
We’ve done research on this and resting bitch face is a neutral face. When you look at it structurally, there’s nothing negative in the face. People are using the context or their knowledge about that person to see more negativity in the face.
…and I live by the river (Danube).
The metropolis that globalization created may well be the capital of the world. But after the “Brexit” referendum, its future as an international crossroads is far from certain.
AI Literacy: The basics of machine learning.
Simple answers to common questions about AI and machine learning (part 1 of a series).
How to Remove Duplicates & Customize the “Open With” Menu in Mac OS X.
We Need More Alternatives to Facebook.
(…) having many more niche alternatives to Facebook could be exactly what we need. Even if none stole a significant chunk of Facebook’s users, it might be enough to remind people that even as Facebook becomes more powerful than ever—rolling up massive profits and preparing to beam down Internet access to offline corners of the globe—other options are possible, and vital.
Relevant: Solid (derived from "social linked data") is a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized Web applications based on Linked Data principles.
Could not imagine a better headline.
AMP: breaking news.
Google has made much of their Accelerated Mobile Pages project as a solution to bloated websites and frustrated users. But could AMP actually be bad news for the web, bad news for news, and part of a trend of news distribution that is bad for society in general?
Techno-Reue in der Hyperrealität.
Die Ernüchterung über das Internet ist eine Tatsache: Aufklärung bringt uns nicht Befreiung, sondern Depression. Die einst märchenhafte Aura, die unsere geliebten Apps, Blogs und sozialen Medien umgab, hat sich aufgelöst. Swipen, Teilen und Liken fühlt sich an wie seelenlose Routine.
Will the real Lisa Davis please stand up?
”For 18 years, I thought she was stealing my identity. Until I found her.”
A woman apparently using my name meant a nightmare of unpaid traffic fines and a criminal record. But when I tracked her down, a different story emerged.