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.
The dangers of being a bridesmaid in China mean some brides now hire professionals.
Excessive drinking, the risk of sexual assault ... it can be dangerous work being a bridesmaid in China.
Arpanet, computer mouse, AltaVista.
Like many inventions, the internet was the work of countless hands. But perhaps no one deserves more credit for that world-changing technological leap than Robert W. Taylor, who died on Thursday at 85 at his home in Woodside, Calif.
There is a mountain filled with horseshow crab blood.
Horseshoe crab blood is an irreplaceable medical marvel—and so biomedical companies are bleeding 500,000 every year. Can this creature that's been around since the dinosaurs be saved?
“Posthumous Release” is my favorite track on HCMJ’s “Flight” album.
Bug reporting for the internet.
- Report a bug for any website or browser.
- Our team of volunteers diagnoses the bug.
- We send a fix to the site owner or browser.